Holiday Program

Last Friday, our school celebrated our annual Holiday Program. We had a wonderful time together singing songs and performing routines in celebration of this marvelous holiday season. Our kindergarten friends have been working since October to memorize the words and routines for their program, and their hard work showed on Friday as they dazzled their audience with their performances all day long! We sang about Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in our multicultural holiday program. We have had such a lovely time learning about each holiday and the different tradidions and special parts that come with each celebration. We have learned that we all may not celebrate on the same days or in exactly the same ways, but that we all celebrate with joy!

Our opener, "O Come Little Children"

Scarves routine for "Celebrate with Joy"

Sticks routine for "La Navidad"

Thank you!

One of our favorite kinds of songs in the music room are the songs we learn to sing for someone special or for a special event. My friends from Ms. Macintire's class learned this "Thank You" song to thank our wonderful custodians for all that they do to keep our school running so smoothly, as well as so sparkling clean! Thank you Mr. Carl, Mr. Jimmy, and Mr. Joe!! We love you and appreciate you!

Welcome to Music at AEEC!

We have been having a blast in the music room these first few weeks of school! We have been singing, dancing, creating, and learning together! One of our most favorite activites in music is feeding Mac the Music Monster! He is our friendly music helper and our students love to help him keep his belly full of music notes and words, letters, and numbers! Here's a look at how to feed the music monster!

First, you should write down what you would like to feed Mac.

He likes numbers, letters, words, and music notes best!

 

Be sure to fill up your whole paper, and both sides; he is very hungry!

Then, just drop your paper in his mouth and he will munch it up!

Music Memory Books

Our music friends have been working diligently on creating their Kindergarten Music Memory Books. These books will help them remember their favorite things about their kindergarten music experience!
Here are a few photos of some wonderful excerpts as well a video of two orange pod friends reading their books!

Hip Hip Hooray! Yellow Pod is singing at PTA!

Please join us for Yellow Pod’s

PTA Performance on

Monday, May 7, 2012 at 6 pm!

Yellow Pod will be singing their favorite

songs in celebration of their Rainforest theme.

Please dress your student in a green shirt and

khaki or denim bottoms and come

to the YELLOW Pod at 5:50 on Monday night.

Students will rehearse in Yellow Pod while parents attend the

 PTA meeting across the hall in the Tiger’s Den.

 We will then join you for our performance!

Hunting for Half Notes

We have been learning to recognize, read, and write half notes in music. One of our half note learning activities was to hide half notes in our artwork. We talked about how we could incorporate half notes into our work by using the notes as the feet of an animal, the stem of a flower, or head lights on a car to name a few examples. Our students were quite creative with their work! Here are some great examples of hiding half note artwork. Can you find the half notes hidden in these pictures?

Cate used half notes both on her beautful butterfly and her flowers. Even the butterfly's antennae are half notes!  



Damian used half notes as the players on his football field.
Kaden drew a jar of lolliops with half notes hidden amongst the lollipops.




A closer look at Damian's half note football players.



Really Reading Rhythms!

My friends have been working hard this week to be rhythm readers! We matched the rhyhtm of the words in our Valentine songs and chants to the number of beats in quarter notes and pairs of eighth notes. Then we played these rhythms using drums and sticks. We had to use our smart reading eyes to read the words and ryhthms at the same time! Here is a sneak peak into rhythm reading with Mrs. Gilmore's class.