It's Halloween everybody!

Practice Habit #7 and "Sharpen Your Saw" with these Pumpkin Carols........

More tools for home practice!

What's new!

• Grade 1-preparation of tah/titi rhythms with songs and rhymes you know
• Grade 2-a few new songs that we've learned in class and pictures of "Rhythm Carousel" of 2MA on the Pictures page
• Grade 3-concert song "Coffee Grows" on White Oak Trees, Gallant Ship and Land of The Silver Birch
• Grade 4-3 Beats in a measure songs-Let's Go a Hunting and Peter's Stream
• Grade 5 Concert Songs-If You Dance-words and then a recording of "Bim Bom"

Full Choir next Tuesday!

Habit Progress and Learning Targets

Conferences this week-

This week are the first conferences of the school year.  In each students data folder or portfolio you will find a progress sheet for music.  It will tell you-

• The four trimester learning targets-goals for your child's grade level
• A self-assessment for Habit 1 and Habit 2 your child has
  completed for their work in music class.
• An indication of my assessment of your child's progress in Habit 1 and Habit 2.

Feel free to stop and see me in the music room if you have any questions.

Opportunities for practice-

This week there are many opportunities for Lincoln students to use the blog to practice towards their Trimester 1 Learning Targets!

• Grade 1-Slide whistle songs to practice finding your singing voice and the story "Hand, Hand Fingers, Thumb" to help you clap 'the way the words go'
• Grade 2-Sing along with "Jenny Jenkins" and practice Verse/Chorus
• Grade 3-The story "Mommy Buy Me A China Doll" practice the song and the steady beat with titika rhythms
• Grade 4-Practice video and chart to help with you with your instrumental trimester targets.
• Grade 5-currently there are examples of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" -can you still sing the theme in solfa?  Look for more 'fun with fa'  this week.

Choir for altos-in the music room due to the fundraiser pick-up in the gym.