HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS!!

Today, January 8, 2016, is Elvis' 81st birthday!

Here are a few videos to help us celebrate!

A Cappella

Our Word of the Week is A Cappella.  

A Cappella is music that only uses voices with no other instruments.  We have been watching these videos in class.

(This is last year's video.)

Halloween Rules!

Forte Piano

This week's Word of the Week is Dynamics!  Dynamics is how loud or how quiet the music is.  Here is the video that we watched in class!

Next week we will learn Crescendo and Decrescendo.  Here is a sneak peak!

Welcome Miss Miller & Miss McAnulty!

I would like to say a huge welcome to our new Music Interns!  Miss Caitlin Miller and Miss Jessica McAnulty!  They will be with us until December!

Miss Miller and Miss McAnulty have some exciting things planned for the next few weeks!

Star Spangled Banner

It's September!  Every year in September we celebrate Freedom week, the Constitution, and the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner!  

The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key on Sept. 12, 1814.  He was aboard a British ship in Baltimore Harbor.  

Here are the videos that we will watch in class this week.

Raising the flag at Fort McHenry:

The Battle at Fort McHenry:

Kids Explain the National Anthem 

A New AJ Show!

Two of our students have their own YouTube show.  

Here is their latest episode of the AJ Show!

Episode 4 - The AJ (Cooking) Show

Here are their older episodes;

Episode 3 - Magic Day

Episode 2 - (Not so) Creepy Doll

Episode 1