September's Playlist

Whittier Wildcats have been listening to music around the world!

Bach Cello Suite #1 in G major (played by Yo Yo Ma)
Earl of Essex (played by the Royal Wind Ensemble)
Call Me Maybe (arranged for clarinet, bassoon and oboe arr. by Dave Kropf)
Nimrod Enigma Variations (played for U.K. Rememberance Day)
Drummers from Burundi (performing in Arusha Tanzania)

All these pieces can be found on YouTube if you want to hear to what your children have been listening (and stretching) to!

Welcome Back!

We have been having a wonderful year so far. The past 2 weeks students have been acclimating or re-acclimating to the music room procedures and expectations. This week all the students are doing grade-level lessons surrounding steady beat and rhythm. In kindergarten we used play-doh as tortilla dough flour and kept a steady beat to the poem "Tortillitas" See if you children remember the motions and words to the rhyme! "Tortillitas para mama. Tortillitas para papa. Las bonitas para Papa. Las quemaditas para mama" (sorry for the lack of accents in the Spanish lyrics) Students with their play-doh "tortillitas" 1st grade- 5th grade students played "Busted" a game where students pull a stick from a cannister. The stick may have a rhythm on it. If it does, they read the rhythm and keep the stick if it's done correctly. If the stick says "Busted!" the student loses their turn and all their sticks. Next week we will start reviewing melody. ...

Hope you all are having a wonderful end to your school year- Remember to look to these pages for updates on music at Whittier! 3rd-5th grade https://sites.google.com/op97.org/whittiermusic3-5/home Kindergarten-2nd grade https://sites.google.com/op97.org/whittiermusick-2/home

2nd trimester report cards

Here are the rubrics for 4th and 5th Grade for 2nd trimester. They are based on a month long GarageBand project. Please email me at akaria@op97.org if you have any questions. Ms. McDaniel/ Gawne's and Ms. Heide's 5th grades rubric (due to number of classes for project) Ms. Cousin's class missed several classes due to holiday so were on a different rubric. 4th Grade Rubric

Music with Mrs. Karia

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