Kelly, Huebner, Day and Kai!

 Today we began a lot of our performance pieces for the winter celebration!!  We also were able to view the Mickey's Haunted House piece that we put together over Halloween.  After all the classes have seen it I will make a Google Classroom assignment so that you can share it at home with your family.  

Mr. Kelly's class started the handbells today. I was so proud of them.  They are playing the Huron Carol.  By the end of class there were bits that started to sound exactly like the song.  I am really excited to continue this with them.  Yes, every grade 3/4 class will get a chance to play the Handbells just not at the same time.  There is a lot of washing of gloves and sanitizing that needs to happen before another class plays.  I will make sure that every class gets to play at some point. 

Mrs. Huebner's class has begun working on the song Jump at the Sun.  Here is a link so that you can practice at home.  Jump At The Sun.  I am hoping that we can learn this in the next few weeks.  The plan is to then record it and film a music video.  This particular song is about Kwanzaa.  Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture which is held from December 26 to January 1, culminating in gift-giving and a feast.  The principles, which are noting the song are: Unity, self-determination, faith, responsibility, creativity, purpose, and cooperative econamics.  We will also be singing in Swahili!

Mr. Kai's class has been working on a Boom Whacker piece with Ms. Felstrom.  They are playing We Wish You A Merry Christmas. We are so impressed with how quickly they learned and played the piece accurately.  We are ready to create our music video! 

Mrs. Day's class is also working on a BoomWhacker piece.  They have been working on the song Frosty the Snowman.  We just started it today and they were amazing. Ms. Felstrom has been teaching this class and we are so proud of what they have accomplished so far.  Today they brought home some art that they did a month or so ago. Their art was representing a piece of music where the notes are going up and one going down.