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  • 5th Grade VPAC Guitar Ensemble Reflection Blog

    Posted by Janet Berry at 12/12/2012 9:00:00 PM
    Students,                                                                                                                                                       December 13, 2012
     
      Now that you have experienced the VPAC Guitar Ensemble performance, please reflect on the following questions based on these selected Essential Standard in music for the 2nd 9 weeks.  Create three sentences for each question using descriptive adjectives and detail.

    ·        I can show appropriate behaviors as a participant and observer of music in relation to the context and style of music performed.

    ·        I can understand how music has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of the United States.

    ·        I can understand the relationships between music and concepts from other areas.

     
    1. What are appropriate behaviors as a participant and observer during an acoustic guitar performance?
    2. What culture, traditions and/or history of the US were represented in the musical selections performed?
    3. What connections did you notice between the music played and concepts from other areas?   (ex. physical strength & flexibility, digital knowledge/recording, art elements/principals, reading/notation, math/division of parts, science/sound, social studies/songs of our country)
     
     
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  • Upcoming Holiday Concerts 2012

    Posted by Janet Berry at 12/12/2012 8:30:00 PM
    This December has been packed with performance and musical opportunities for Celeste Henkel.
    •  On Friday, November 30, the Celeste Henkel Chorus sang for the 2nd Annual Toy Drive with school partner Bethlehem United Methodist Church raising over $2,000. for toys for our students. 
    •  Tomorrow, Thursday, December 13th, the 5th Grade students will get a special holiday performance treat presented by the VPAC Guitar Ensemble. Thank you Mr. John Bailey
    •  This coming Tuesday, December 18th, 6:30pm the Celeste Henkel Chorus will be performing at the Signal Hill Mall for our community.
    •  Then on Wednesday, December 19th the Prime Time Singers will be performing for the senior members of Bethlehem United Methodist.
    •  Last but not least, the Grand Finale will be Friday, December 21st, 1:00-2:00pm in the gym, our whole school will be performing.
         Celeste Henkel Chorus; Prime Time Singers; Each grade level, and an all school Sing-a-Long.
      •    Please come out and join us for any or all of these wonderful music opportunities.  MUSICALLY, Mrs. Berry
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  • New News in Music Class!!!

    Posted by Janet Berry at 8/30/2012
    I just wanted to let you all know how great this year has started!! :)
     
             Thus far, Celeste Henkel Music students have:
    • received a $998.36 mini-grant from the North Carolina Music Educators Association for the purchase of 17 lap dulcimers and books for a year long unit of Appalachian Folk Music in 5th Grade.
    • received notification that 5th Grade will have the opportunity to attend the John Brown Jazz Orchestra Concert in April, 2013.
    • received a $60.00 donation on Adopt-a-Classroom from Mr. Goodin for Music Center Kits and several Jumbo Egg Shakers.
    • taken district 5th Grade Music Baseline Assessment on the QuizStar website using the new computers in Lab II.
    • taken baseline assessments in 3rd & 4th Grades.
    • reviewed rhymes and songs from last year in 1st and 2nd Grades and learned our first new song and game for this year.
    • toured the enhancement classes in kindergarten.

      What a great place to learn! I'm so excited. 

     
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  • 4th Grade Creative Writing Tempo Stories

    Posted by Janet Berry at 5/2/2012
    This week in music, 4th graders have begun a creative writing project using Italian tempo words. The five words for their stories are Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro and Presto. While students listened to "Hungarian Dance No. 6" by the romantic composer Johannes Brahms they developed a mental image story to represent the various tempo changes within the piece. Students used the tempo words to describe movements occuring in their stories. The second step to this project is posting their stories on this blog.
     
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  • World's Largest Concert - performed on 4/5/12

    Posted by Janet Berry at 5/1/2012
    On April 5th, the 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade Chorus' sang the 3rd annual "World's Largest Concert". It was a wonderful success. With the theme, "Music Lasts a Lifetime", the students were encouraged to speak about how music has touched their lives and how they intend to keep music in their lives for a lifetime. The concert material this year included a piece in Latin, "Dona Nobis Pacem" and in Spanish, "El Vito". Other pieces of the concert included, "Discussion Percussion", "Rock Island Line", "Feel the Beat" and "Everlasting Melody". Also, of course, we sang our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" with the student body.
     
     
     Feel the Beat
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  • Researching Mozart

    Posted by Janet Berry at 2/12/2012
    On January 27th, a famous classical composer named, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had his 256th birthday.  
    In 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade classes students have been reading, listening and practicing Mozart in centers. Students reading biographies and text about Mozart's life and music. Students listening to a Metropolitan Opera video of "The Magic Flute" by Mozart. Students listening to the Classical Destinations educational CD-rom about Mozart's life and music. Students listening to a voicethread about Mozart's death, fact or opinion. Students practicing Mozart's famous "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" or "Twinkle, Twinkle" on recorder, keyboard or mallet instruments. 
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