MEET FREDDIE!

Meet Freddie!  


Freddie has come all the way from Treble Clef Island to meet our awesome Beacons!  He will teach us so much about music as we go on different adventures with him!  I am so excited to have him. 

On my way back from the Music Educators Conference in Winston Salem, I stopped by Treble Clef Island because I had to meet Freddie.  I was telling him how awesome Boger was and he decided he wanted to come live here for the school year.

  
Freddie really enjoyed the fluffy bedding in the hotel room as we were making our way back home...he is a sleepy head in the morning and very difficult to wake!

The picture above shows Freddie with my name tag from the conference.  He was very happy that I came to meet him.




This picture to the left shows Freddie trying to drive us home, but I told him he could not do that....



 
so he rode in my purse!




Stay tuned for more adventures from Freddie as he meets the Boger Beacons starting today!!!

NCMEA conference

I am happy to say that I am spending four days in Winston-Salem, NC for the annual NCMEA conference.  This is a conference for music educators across the state.  There are so many amazing clinics to go to, performances to hear, and things to see.  I arrived yesterday and spent the afternoon and evening listening to the Middle and High School Honors Chorus rehearsals.  Today Elementary, Middle, and High School Honors Choruses had their performances so I went to all of those.  I also went to a clinic that focused on Elementary Choral Literature and I actual got to sing and read though it.  Awesome!  Then I went shopping at all of the vendors and of course I had to get some stuff for my Beacons!

Tomorrow is a full day of clinics.  I am also going to try to look in on some of the great performances during the day as well.  I'm missing my Beacons, but I know they will be in great hands with Mr. Richards.

Square One Art!

Our fabulous art teacher and our awesome PTO organize this amazing fundraiser every year called Square One Art.  Each student makes a piece of art and then they can order a variety of things with their artwork on it (shirts, keychains, etc.)  This year, I tried making one of my own! (top picture)  Mrs. Richardson had to help me with my xylophone, but I think it turned out pretty good!  I will definitely be buying something with the design on it.

This picture below is our Bel Canto Beacons Chorus Square One Art project!  I LOVE it so much...it has the name of every chorus member on it and can also be purchased on a t shirt or anything else that you want!  I'll definitely be getting one of these as well!

Rhythm Circle

 

First grade has been working hard on keeping a steady beat as we play our instruments, so we created this rhythm circle where they have to play along to the music and then all pass their instrument to the next person in the direction of the arrows.  It makes practice this skill interesting because they get to switch instruments as we go along and it also makes them work as a team!  Great job guys!

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

First graders have just finished up a unit on Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which is a series of songs that were written to sound like the seasons of the year.  We think the Baroque composer did a great job illustrating the seasons through music so to end the unit we listened to each movement and drew pictures of things that reminded us of that season as we were listening to it.

#1 - Spring
#2 - Summer
#3 - Autumn
#4 - Winter

 

Second Grade Musical

Second graders are learning about insects in science, so I thought it would be really cool for us to learn the musical, "Bugz!"  I am hoping to do this as a grade level performance sometime later in the year, but the date has not been set yet.  It is a super cute musical with fun songs and speaking parts.  The kids are doing a great job learning the songs so far and I think they really like it too!

Treble Clef Note Names!

  While my sweet fourth graders are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their recorders (woohoo!), we are practicing and reviewing note names for the lines and spaces of the treble clef.  We have a variety of ways we do this, from individual  practice on white boards to super fun interactive websites and games, but one of their favorites is the bean bag toss game.  The class is split into teams and each person throws a bean bag onto the staff and then they need to name the line or space that it lands on.  We usually play boys verses girls and the first team to say their answer gets the point for that round.