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      Welcome to the Concord Elementary School Music Department, where children in  Kindergarten through fourth grade, learn to experience and express, the joy of music through speech, singing, movement, the use of instruments, listening, and performance. 

     Students have general music classes for 30 minutes, once a week, where the basic elements, symbols, tools, processes, style, history, culture, vocabulary, and the uniqueness of music are introduced, or reinforced, depending on the grade level.     

       Basic elements of rhythm, steady beat, tempo, dynamics, timbre/tone color, melody, and form are introduced at the  Kindergarten level, then built upon in grades 1-4.  

       The singing voice is one of the main topics covered as a tool in all grades, and the process of learning the staff, notational system, and music vocabulary,  is introduced in K-2, then  broadened within grades 3-4.   

     The students will learn and experience the unique qualities of music, along with similarities within other art forms, through various activities in their weekly music classes, and performances throughout the school year. 

     Once again the students will  review  the patriotic songs of our country.  Students will also become familiar with "Good Character Assets" and continue the all school "Caring Beings" and new "Manners Matter", themes through song and movement.  Again this year, we will prepare an all school assembly with songs that include various positive character assets.

     Students will continue to be encouraged to show appropriate performance and assembly behavior, through L. R. A.-LISTEN, RESPECT, and  APPRECIATE.  This is still being reinforced during regular music classes, and all school assemblies. 

        Every student will be chosen to be the "MAESTRO", my helper, in one of their music classes during the year.  They always choose which row of students may line up first at the end of class, and provide assistance with any additional needs that may arise during their music class. 

     To support our school improvement goal and enhance literacy in our students, word walls will continue to grow in the music room.  For example, the "MAESTRO" in grade 2 will choose a letter of the alphabet, then read a brief excerpt from the book, "M is for Melody" the musical alphabet, at the beginning of each class.  Students in grades 4 will read and listen to various musical selections of composers from several different periods in music history.

     I will once again be incorporating the  "ROUND TABLE",  where students are randomly invited to spend a few minutes at the end of their lunch time with me, in the music room.  They may come alone, or choose one friend in their grade to join us.  This enables me a chance to get to know students, and their interests, outside of their regularly scheduled music class.

      Each grade level performs a music program, sometime during the school year.  Third and fourth grade students may join the Junior Chorus, which meets for one hour, once a week, after school on Thursdays, (beginning in October-April, with 2-3  performances throughout the school year. Check out the Calendar page for grade level, Junior Chorus, and all school performance dates. 

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