Welcome Back!!!

Hello everyone!
I can't believe we are already 6 days into the new school year. I hope you all are really excited about the new activities we will be doing in music this year especially with our recorders!!! Remember if you have not brought those in yet that you need to bring in your money as soon as possible so we can place the order for them and get playing. My question for you today is what musical activities did you do during your summer break? Did you go and see a concert? Did you play any musical instruments? Or did you just listen to your radio as you hung out in the pool? Let me know what you did musically this summer!! Remember when you respond to this question that you put your first and last name as well as your homeroom teacher's name so I know who is responding to my question.

Our Time

I just wanted to say congrats to the cast of Our Time you all did an amazing show!!! I want to let you all know I am in the works for planning a party for us so that we can view the dvd of the show and so you can see what the audience saw. Speaking of which the dvds have come in already so if you purchased one stop by and see me. If you want to leave a message on this blog tell me your favorite memory of the show. To all my other students that were not in the show but did get to see it either at school or at Goodnight feel free to write about your favorite part of the show or congradualate the students that were in it. Oh... one last thing I have also put up pictures of the show so feel free to take a look!!

Homemade Musical Instrument Project for 5th grade

It is that time of year again where we are talking about the instrument families in music class. Every year I allow the 5th graders to make a musical instrument to demonstrate their knowledge of the musical families. So, students if you have any questions about the project or need some clarification on the project please respond to this blog. Remember to put your first and last name as well as your homeroom teacher's name when you publish your response. Also, if you scroll down the page I have included links for more information about our musical families. In this blog I posted the rubric for our project. In case you forgot the due dates for the project here they are: Sekora, Marcum, Chaffin and Helton's projects are due April 27th
Winston's projects are due May 4th
Tucker's projects are due May 11th
Barnes,Phillips, and Satterly's projects are due May 18th

I am giving everyone more than enough time to turn in your projects so have fun with them and don't let them be something that stresses you out. Remember Spring break would be a great time to get to work on them!!!

Homemade Musical Instruments

Explanation: This week we will be studying the different families of instruments. As we learn about the instrument families, you will pick your favorite instrument family and create an instrument that would fit into that family. You will get the opportunity to share the instrument with your class. You will show your knowledge of what makes an instrument fit into a family by telling us why your instrument fits into that family.
Rubric: Your grade will be out of 50 points. Below shows how the points are divided up. At the end of the presentations you will be given back you to you a copy of this rubric filled out with your grade on it.
Criteria Points Possible Your Score
Instrument was turned in on time 5 _____

Poster 5 _____

Your name and your instrument’s name displayed 5 _____

Description of family 10 _____

Explanation of how your instrument fits in that family 10 _____

Work put into the creation of your instrument 10 _____

Your presentation 5 _____

Your instrument can actually play
(or is from the brass family) +5 _____