Winter Caroling

This week, the students are caroling in the hallways during their second music class of the week- parents are welcome to join us and sing along!  We have talked to the students about the wonderful tradition of caroling, and how it brings the community together in song.  They would really love to hear their loved ones singing with them!


Here are some of the highlights from today:

3rd Grade Holiday Mad Libs!

Below are the silly and creative songs that Mrs. Ferullo and Mrs. Cyr's class wrote by doing Mad Libs!

The first song is to the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" and the second song is to the tune of, "Frosty the Snowman." Enjoy!

Alex  the green -nosed dog

Had a very cold leg

And if you ever saw it

You would even say it glows

All of the other birds

Used to laugh and call him light

They never let poor Ava

Join in any dolphin games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve

Santa came to say

Rudolph with your digestive system so fat

Won't you guide my George Washington tonight?

Then all the kittens loved him

And they shouted out with obsession

Mrs. Niu the pink-head pig

You'll go down in history!

Frosty the Barack Obama man

Was a furry colorful brown soul,

With a Hawaiian Pizza and a heart foot

And two eyes made out of chicken.

Frosty the Bach man is a blue tale, they say,

He was made of bathroom but the children know

How he came to  New York one day.

There must have been some magic in that

Old pants they found.

For when they placed it on his head

He began to play around.

Oh, Frosty the  Angel man

Was alive as he could be,

And the classes say he could ski and jump

Just the same as Ava and me.

String Update/Assignment

I want to extend an extra Congratulations to all 4th Grade String students for such a wonderful performance last week!  I am so proud of you and all of your hard work :)

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Third Graders
Today, we continued to review all notes on the D and A strings, then played through page 13.  By now, students should have each of those notes memorized - not only the fingerings, but also what they look like on the staff.  If your child is having trouble with this, remind them that they can go back to the earlier pages in the book to review.  If it is still difficult, please let me know so I can give them extra help in school!  Thanks.

Assignment:

• Pg. 14.  This one is a little tricky!!  Please focus on "Jingle Bells" so we can play it in our lesson next week :)
• Please continue to work on holding the bow, and switching between strings.

Fourth Graders

4A:  Today we had (a belated) Performance Day!!  

Assignment:

• Now that the concert is over, we can get back to the book!  Please review pages 13 and 14.

4B:  Today we had (a belated) Performance Day!

Assignment:

• Review G String notes (G, A, B, C)
• Pg.  31 

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PERFORMANCES

(note:  not all students choose to be videotaped)