Music Notes
Noteworthy information for the Week of March 25, 2024
🎵Welcome to Music! 🎵
The Last Repair Shop
Winner of the the documentary short category at the 2024 Academy Awards.
L.A. Times Short Docs & Searchlight Pictures In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of the recording capital of the world. Watch "The Last Repair Shop," directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers.
K- 2 Weekly Announcements : 🎵
K and Grade 1 began creating their own LONG and SHORT rhythm patterns. This is a wonderful place to begin learning to COMPOSE music.
Grade 2 finished out our Orchestra Unit by making their OWN shakers. Great job Grade 2!
Grades 3-5 Weekly Announcements:
Grade 3-5 Music Field Trip to play with The Rhode Island Philharmonic Link Up! Program
May 22 11:30, Providence, RI (more info to come)
Students are FREE, Chaperone $5.00
IMPORTANT: Please remind your student that I would prefer that their cameras be turned on in our Live Lessons for accurate assessment on Student Participation. Thank you!! With cameras on, students, can better demonstrate their understanding of the lesson. A student is allowed to choose "Privacy Mode" in Live Lesson if they wish to have more privacy from the class, but I can still see them.😄
Class Expectations
Here are some helpful tips to be successful in MUSIC
- Attend Live Lessons each week ⏰
- Music is an interactive course, so please have your CAMERAS on during the entire Live Lesson so I can see each of you actively participating! 🎥
- Complete the Participation Exit Ticket or Quiz each week📋
- Keep track of your completed assignments with "Specials Participation Exit Ticket Chart"
- If you happen to miss a week, please be sure to watch the recording and complete your assignment.📺
- You will have 2 weeks to complete missed assignments before it is changed to a temp zero. Students have 2 weeks to send in missed assignments to replace the temp zero. 4 weeks total from the date the assignment was assigned.
- Music is a FULL YEAR course so grades do not close until June 11, 2024