Musical Mateys at the Arkansas State Capitol!

Yesterday I traveled with the Musical Mateys to the Arkansas State Capitol.  We sang 6 songs and they did a terrific job!

The Nutcracker 2017

I loved getting to watch these 4 beauties in The Nutcracker today!  They did a terrific job!!!

Musical Mateys

The Musical Mateys did their Christmas Concert last Thursday night and did SUCH A GREAT JOB!!!  I'm super proud of all their hard work!

Playing the Violin

Yesterday Jillian brought her violin to school and played for her class!  She did an awesome job.  I'm so proud of her hard work!

Hot Cross Buns

We have been working hard on recorders in 3rd and 4th grades.  This week we added an accompaniment on the xylophones for the song Hot Cross Buns!  They did a terrific job!

The Cat Came Back!

This week we are singing songs and doing activities about Cats!  Here are a few videos that you might get to watch in class!!

Mrs. Land is AWESOME!!!

Today I had a class that wasn't able to make it to music because they had a special event in their classroom at that time!  So, Mrs. Morton (my intern) and I went to PE!  We did the giant parachute and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!  Mrs. Land (the PE teacher) does such fun, amazing things!!!

Family Night!

Our first Family Night of the year will be Thursday, November 9 from 6:00-7:30.  

2nd grade will present a Thanksgiving themed performance at 6:00.

1st grade will present a Veteran's Day themed performance at 6:45. 

Here are a few of the songs that we have been working on!

1st Grade:
Military Medley

My Country Tis of Thee

Grand Old Flag

God Bless America

2nd Grade:

Autumn Leaf

Pilgrims

Happy Fall Y'all!

It's finally starting to feel like fall (well . . . sort of).  And, this week we are celebrating October by singing some fun fall and Halloween songs!

Rhythm Reading for October!

Its a new month!  October is Mrs. Stahl's favorite month because

 is Mrs. Stahl's favorite holiday!!!

We will be doing a lot of fun activities this month - starting with this awesome Rhythm Reading song!

RECORDERS!!!!!

Our recorders have arrived!  They were sent home yesterday - there were 86 very happy kids!

(and probably some annoyed parents...😜)

Parents I PROMISE we will get better!!!

Enjoy these awesome recorder videos!!

This is a band called PerKelt performing an Irish Folk Song on guitar and recorder!!

Here is a girl playing an Alto Recorder (its bigger than ours - ours are Soprano Recorders)

She is playing Blank Space by Taylor Swift!

BEST ONE OF ALL - this guy is beatboxing WHILE playing recorder.  WHAT?!?!?!?!

Rhythm Reading Fun!

Every class time we practice Rhythm Reading (Grades 2-4)!  

Each month we have different music and rhythms/movements.

Here is our Rhythm Reading song for September!

Welcome back to school!

We have been having so much fun in music this year!  Here's what we've been up to the past few weeks!

Talented Kids

I have some of the most talented students here at Dover Elementary.  I love it when they share their talent with me!  This is a sweet 4th grader.  She is such a hard worker and is playing so great.

 

Fun with Centers!

Every year we spend the first 2 weeks of May doing Music Centers.  Some are educational, some are just for fun!  We wait all year for this!

 

 

   

















There are 3 PEOPLE in the pic above. 

Do you see the hidden 2nd grader?!?!

Word of the Week Challenge

Each week we learn a Word of the Week.  Last week was our last week to learn a word.  We have learned 48 words!!

This week we are doing a review game/competition.  The students must work as a class to match all 48 words with the definition. 

It also happens to be State Testing week.  So, several of our classes had to miss music.

 Here is and time for the classes that were able to participate:

2nd Grade

Widner - 5 min. 59 seconds

Williams- 7 min. 22 seconds

3rd Grade

                                 Race  -  6 min. 37 seconds 

Young -  5 min. 05 seconds

4th Grade

    Aday  -  3 min. 41 seconds

                                   Arivett-  3 min. 24seconds

Ode to A Marshmallow

This week is full of fun!  We are nearing the end of school (4 more music classes!!)

First grade is singing Ode to A Marshmallow.  It is a super fun song from Music K-8!

We made campfires from boomwhackers and pretended to roast marshmallows while we sang!

  

We also sang a song about Balloons!