Green Pod PTA Performance

Green pod did a dazzling job at their PTA performance. Their performance included several songs about apples, pumpkins, and leaves in celebration of their theme for the year, The Great Outdoors. Here are a few photos from their very fabulous fall performance. Enjoy!



The fabulous fall decorations provided by our wondeful PTA helped us feel like we really were in a Pumpkin Patch during our Pumpkin Patch song!




Sweet friends singing 'you can rest your head on me' in the song "Under a Shady Tree".




"Would you like an apple on a stick?"




Some of S. Jones' friends and their smiling faces at the close of a terrific performance!



Center Time!

The last few days in music, my friends have been enjoying center time as a reward for their good behavior! This is a wondeful time for our students to practice their creative thinking skills as they listen, build, read, write, create and draw together in the music room. Here are a few snapshots from a few of our centers!

Ladies reading Five Little Monkeys and Dooby, Dooby Moo at the Reading Center.

A friend offering me a milkshake that he made using egg shakers and rhyhtm cups at the instrument building center.



Friends creating and composing at the keyboards, our most popular center!




A friend listening to the Bop It  Game for her next instructions at the listening center.



You're a Grand Ol' Flag

We have been working on several patriotic songs in music lately. One of our favorite things to do while we sing our America songs is to march to the steady beat and wave our flags! Here are some images from a couple of Tuesday classes. These friends in Mrs. S. Jones' class and Miss Mangum's class are marching proudly while celebrating their freedom and their country!

Oh I Love America!

This week, we are singing songs to celebrate America in the music room! Some of our favorites include, "My Country Tis of Thee", "This Land is Your Land", "The Star Spangled Banner", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and "Oh I Love America". Mrs. Sanders' class from the Orange Pod sang "Oh I Love America" so beautifully today, we decided to share our sweet voices with everyone here on the music room blog! Notice what a nice job they are doing spelling A-M-E-R-I-C-A!

We hope you enjoy!

One of our Favorites!

One of our most favorite things to practice with our rhyhtm sticks in music class is the "Days of the Week" song. This version of "Days of the Week" is brought to you by Ms. Whitt's class from Blue Pod. You will notice this tune sounds a bit like the Adams Family theme song!

This favorite activity helps us to practice playing on the steady beat, resting in the appropriate places, and of course helps us learn all seven days of the week!

Rhythm Doesn't Bug Us!

Hello! Welcome to AEEC's Music Blog! This is a place where you can come to read about and see pictures and videos of exciting work that is happening in our music room!

Our friends are already working hard to learn important music skills. This week, we are studying quarter notes and quarter rests. We have learned that when we play quarter notes, we hear one beat of sound and when we see quarter rests in the music, we know to stop and rest for one beat.

Here is a video of Mrs. Mims' class from the Yellow Pod. They are playing rhyhtm sticks and reading rhythtms off the SMART board at the same time! Quite impressive! Enjoy!

There's A Pizza Place in Our Music Room!

At the instrument creation center, some of our friends decided to create a fully functioning pizza restaurant! At this center, students are supposed to think outside of the box a bit and use the instruments to build something. These friends decided to create a pizza place. It was complete with cooks, dough tossers, oven operators and servers! It was quite an impressive creation and they had so much fun deciding which instruments to use for each part of their restaurant.

This is a nice view of the stove top created out of wood blocks. Lollipop drums were used as skillets, and hand drums used as bowls to hold eggs and beanbags which functioned as dough! The guys even thought to take all the little red handle balls off of the triangles to use as pepperonis!

Here is a side view of the guys at work in the kitchen.

Our very own, very talented dough tosser! So clever to use beanbags as pizza dough!

Once the pizzas came out of the oven, they guys in the kitchen would pass them out to the servers.

Our carpet squares were used as the tables, our rhythm cups as drinking glasses, and you can see the delicious pizzas fresh out of the oven ready to eat! :)