Welcome to the Shelburne Community School's Music News Web Page.
Several times each month this page will be updated to include news and events in the K-3 Music Program.  Please check back often.  

Kindergarten Classes:

    Kindergarten students are preparing for their winter program. Please note the date and new time of your child's concert: (Performances will be in the SCS gym)

February 13, 2008

8:45-9:15- All students on the Journey Team (Mrs. Hazen, Ms. Niles and Mrs. Kendrick)
10-10:30- All students on the Spirit Team (Mrs. Meyette and Mrs. Killkelley)

 
    Students are exploring and creating 4-beat patterns, using  quarter and eighth notes, as well as quarter rests. We have added the G-clef (Treble clef) and time signature to our patterns.  Classes are making progress in their, "Musical Detective" notebooks, and are writing the rhythms to the patterns they hear. When completed, each child will ask their parents to "decode" their patterns.                                                    

        First-Second Grade Classes:

    This week, all second graders had the opportunity to sing alone. We worked on a song called, "The Squirrel." Focus was on matching pitches and maintaining a steady beat. Most children enjoyed to chance to hear their voices alone! First graders were so eager to sing alone, and were also given the opportunity.

Classes are continuing to work on their composition projects. Each class has created 4-beat rhythm patterns, and added the melody, using the pentatonic scale. After Musical Simon Says, and Mrs. Burritt's Wacky, Zany Musical Twister, students will begin notating their patterns on the staff.

Here's one of the rhythm patterns created by our students:

Jacob's Song

Jacob, one of our 2nd graders wrote this song at home. It is about the rain. He performed it for his class. Click on the yellow rectangle to hear it:

Third Grade Classes:

    Our Composer of Study for January is Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) We will be listening to his William Tell Overture.

    Although Rossini lived for 76 years, he only celebrated 18 birthdays, because he was born in a leap year. (February 29)

    For the 10th consecutive year, the music educators in Charlotte, Hinesburg, and Shelburne, working with the Regional Educational Technology Network, will present a series of live broadcasts to the schools in the Supervisory Union, as well as to our communities. We are beginning a new adventure: broadcasting over the Internet. (Closed broadcast between our schools) Broadcast dates/times will be posted in the near future.

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Last updated: January 25, 2008