Well it's March which means it's music in our schools month. My omar students have been working on artwork for the walls. I've got my music/St Patrick's day board up and grades 3-4 have been working on a writing activity. 3rd grade wrote about their favorite music activities and 4th grade wrote about why music is important.
We completed these activities in centers. We had two other centers going on also. These two were games that showed our knowledge of reading the treble clef staff. We played treble twist up and bottle cap staff.
All 3rd graders have completed a quaver unit on classical music. We will share a song from this unit with you during our spring concert.
All 4th grade students have been working on selections from Broadway musicals. So far we've done Annie, suessical, and a Disney on Broadway Medley. We hope to share these with you on our spring concert.
2nd grade has been working hard on a Quaver musical called A Journey Into Space. We will definitely be sharing this with you on our spring concert. Stay tuned for more information!
Grades k-1 had some suessical fun last week. We read Dr Suess' My Many Colored Days and then used scarves to do some creative movement as we added music to each color. It was a ton of fun!
Mrs Curry even joined a kindergarten class at Omar. Principals need a chance to sharpen their saw also!
Omar's 1st grade learned the song Dr Suess We Love You. All k-1 classes did the song Cat in the Hat and we used instruments with it.
All students enjoyed seeing my pictures and videos of Quaver from WVMEA. It was a great honor and joy to meet him and participate in his sessions. Quaver music is engaging and fun for both teacher and students.
Today we had a music trivia question during Omar's morning program for music month. Today's was question was "name the music you heard playing". A 3rd grade boy got it correct and the answer was Star Wars. Bonus was can you name the composer: another 3rd grade boy got it and the answer was John Williams. Was so proud of them- we did this last year.
Can't wait for tomorrow. The winners get a quaver sticker!
Next week is Omar's Leadership Day so we are spending this week reviewing our 7 habits songs and preparing for this.
Stay tuned for dates for spring concerts!
