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

Welcome Back!!

Welcome back DES students!  I'm super excited to start a brand new year!

I had a great summer.  I went on an awesome vacation with my family to Walt Disney World in Florida!

I also learned to play the ukulele!  

That's my sister playing with me.  I'm not really very good!!!  Neither is she.  :)

This year we have some awesome new instruments.  Here are a few!

The AJ Show!

A couple of our students have started a YouTube Channel called The AJ Show!  They have 3 episodes and have done a GREAT job!!  Watch them below.  Catch new episodes here!

Episode 1

Episode 2 - (Not So) Creepy Doll

Episode 3 - Magic Day!