Every student has music each week. They are taught to sing and to take pleasure in singing in the group.

Movement, dance and the use of percussion are integrated into the music lessons. The music teacher connects music to the integrated units for each grade level.

MUSIC NEWSLETTER

March 2011 in Music Class: Ms. Zimmerman

During the month of March at TECCS, students in music class incorporated singing and instrumentation with traditional children’s literature.  Kindergarteners moved like frogs and played various rhythm instruments as jumping sound effects to accompany the book, Jump, Frog, Jump.  In the first grade, students took turns singing and playing the descending pentatonic scale each time it occurred in the story of In the Tall, Tall Grass, as well as second graders with the children’s story, Old Black Fly.  In addition, students learned an assortment of Irish tunes to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, such as “Michael Finnegan, Looking for a Leprechaun, My Irish Eyes are Smiling,” and a favorite of second graders, “Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder.”   

This spring, students have also been learning folk songs from around the world in preparation for our Spring Concert.  Some chorales include a Spanish song, entitled “Los Colores de la Primavera (The Colors of Spring),” a Native American song called, “Dream Catcher,” and a traditional Hawaiian folk song called “`Ulili E,” or “The Sandpiper,” a native bird of Hawai’i.  We are also learning a Japanese folk song about the Spring, “Haru ga kita” (“Spring has come”), a South African song about freedom, called “Singabahambayo,” and an Indian song in the Konkani language about the secrets of life (“Aeyaya balano sakkad”).  We are looking forward to seeing you at our performance at the concert in June!