January and February Celebrity Singers!
Parmenter 5th
JFK 4th
JFK 3rd
JFK 5th
Special thanks to Keona's mom who came in to help the 5th graders at Parmenter with our new song from Brazil. She helped us with our Portuguese, painted a great picture of Rio de Janeiro, and even taught us to samba!
I also have to give a special shout out to Sean, a 5th grader at JFK, and Mr. John who works at JFK who helped us with our Portuguese translation!
Last month we celebrated February birthdays along with the Birthday and music of John Williams! Very fitting with the Oscars last night! John Williams has been nominated for 50 Oscars and won 5 for film scores such as Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Fiddler on the Roof, and of course, Star Wars. While, unfortunately, he did not win last night, here is John Williams conducting his newest film!
Psst. Remember Jazz Prodigy Joey Alexander? Guess who got to perform at this year's Grammy Award Show?! Check out his performance!
I also have to give a special shout out to Sean, a 5th grader at JFK, and Mr. John who works at JFK who helped us with our Portuguese translation!
Last month we celebrated February birthdays along with the Birthday and music of John Williams! Very fitting with the Oscars last night! John Williams has been nominated for 50 Oscars and won 5 for film scores such as Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Fiddler on the Roof, and of course, Star Wars. While, unfortunately, he did not win last night, here is John Williams conducting his newest film!
Happy Birthday this month to Bobby McFerrin!
March 11, 1950
I couldn't resist picking this really talented and unique musician! He uses his voice in so many amazing ways and is a great example to children who are learning to improvise. I had to start with this feel good hit! Enjoy!
Psst. Remember Jazz Prodigy Joey Alexander? Guess who got to perform at this year's Grammy Award Show?! Check out his performance!
Finally, Happy Belated Valentine's Day from Mrs. Arnold's JFK 1st grade class. This was an activity I did K-2 at JFK and 1-2 at Parmenter. Finding, demonstrating, and maintaining a steady beat is a concept we work on K-5. In K-1 students helped my friend Valentine, the bear, dance to the beat while we rapped a Valentine's Day poem. From there, we used the program Mixcraft (very similar to GarageBand) to create a background beat, similar to rap artists! First graders had a little more input in which beat they wanted to incorporate and recorded themselves as well. Second graders created their own Valentine's Day poem and used the recording to help evaluate their performance and then re-record. Unfortunately, in an effort to help keep my data usage down I deleted a few more projects I was hoping to share! Don't worry, more to come in March!
