Music in March (K classes featured!)

March Celebrity Singers!

5th Parmenter

4th JFK

3rd JFK

5th JFK

April Musician of the Month!

Scott Joplin

April 1, 1868

"King of Ragtime Writers"

Here is one of my all time favorite Scott Joplin pieces, "Maple Leaf Rag"!

Videos from inside the music room! 

Featuring JFK Kindergarten!

Mrs. Trottier's Class

Students in multiple grades listened to "The Viennese Musical Clock" and did different activities to help find the beat and identify parts that were same and different. In older classes, students were able to identify the form!

You can listen to the whole piece here!

Mrs. Trockman's Class

Here is a fun game I play in K-1. Students wake up the grizzly bear by hearing and singing the resting tone!

Mr. McCarthy's Class

Here is another fun activity I do with K-1. Students identify the macro (big) beat and the micro (small) beat. Once students can put this beat in their bodies we transfer the beat to barred instruments (xylophone, metalophone, glockenspiels). Students also create an ABA form using the two parts!