Black History Month Assembly- Featured Chorus

There will be a featured chorus singing the song "Harriet Tubman" for our Black History Month Assembly next week. If your child is in 2nd-5th grade and interested in singing they can come to the rehearsals during lunch recess.

2nd grade rehearsals- Friday at 11:10 and Tuesday 2/26 at 11:10

3rd-5th grade rehearsals Thursday at 11:40 (for those who didn't come this Tuesday), Friday at 11:40 (featured part auditions), and Tuesday 2/26

The lyrics to the song we are learning are at this link
Lyrics

Here is a link with an older chorus performing the song (we won't be doing this exact version)
Video

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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