Our WBPE members came together for the first rehearsal of 2017 inspired and ready to work! They sat down and immediately got to work creating two new pieces of music that are sure to be crowd pleasers! 
Also, our drummers will be taking their composition, writing an original story to compliment the music, illustrate it, create a powerpoint, and present it at one of our concerts later this year. Miller drummers are doing great things!
Happy New Year to all of our wonderful Miller families!
We are starting the year off with some fun and exciting activities! Our music students are working on the objectives related to PITCH and are being assessed on the following:
* Sing using the correct pitch (notes)
* Sing using call and response
* Sing independently and on pitch
* Read lyrics while singing
We have some wonderful singers here at Miller!
ONE BOTTLE OF POP
Part 1
One bottle of pop.
Two bottles of pop.
Three bottles of pop.
Four bottles of pop.
Five bottles of pop.
Six bottles of pop.
Seven bottles of pop.
POP!
Part 2
Don’t throw your trash in my backyard.
My backyard.
My backyard.
Don’t throw your trash in my backyard.
My backyard’s full.
Part 3
Fish, and chips and vinegar, vinegar, vinegar.
Fish, and chips and vinegar.
Pepper, pepper, pepper salt
CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR PRACTICE VIDEO
Comic books and rubber bands
Climb into the treetop
Falling down and holding hands
Tricycles and Redpop
Pony rides and Sunday nights
Roller skates and yoyos
Fairy tales and snowball fights
Climbin’ through the window
Remember when you were a kid
Now part of you still is
And that’s why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers
Faygo remembers
Flying kites and funny shoes
Easter eggs with speckles
ABC’s and counting by two’s
Washing off the freckles
Kissing a hurt to make it stop
Startin’ school in September
So many things you almost forgot
Tryin’ to remember
Remember when you were a kid?
Well part of you still is
And that’s why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers (vamp and fade)
CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR PRACTICE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc
Please practice the Star Spangled Banner in the Key of G Major (Same as the video link)
Oh Say can you see, by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed, at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so galantly streaming
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there
Oh say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave?
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”
If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools. Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years. Read the rest of this entry
School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”
If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools. Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years. Read the rest of this entry
Overview for November
Kindergarten
Match Pitch
Assess Pitch
One and Two Sounds to a Beat
Pre-Reading of Music Notation
Introduction of Quarter and Eighth Notes
Purposeful Movement
Introduction of Foriegn Language (Spanish)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Rhythmic Assessment
Listening
TI TI Ta (Eighth and quart notes) and one finger claps
Identify Softer and Louder (Dynamics)
Spider beats (Steady beat)
Beat and rhythm groups simultaneously
Song for days of the week
Ring around the Rosy song and game
Introduction to Meter 2/4 and 6/8
March vs. Swing
Poetry
Read and Perform Beats of Silence
Instrument Exploration Hands-on Experience (Woods/Metals/Shakers & Scrapers)
Grade 1
Concept: BEAT
Identify and perform Long and Short
Listening focus and game
One and Two sounds to a beat
Foreign Language (Song in French, song in Swahili)
Call and Response
Purposeful Movement (Sutdent demonstration)
Marching to a steady beat
Sway to the beat
Instrument Exploration Hands-on Experience (Woods/Metals/Shakers & Scrapers)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Write your own story and try it out in class with instrument performers
Grade 2
Reading Quarter/Eighth notes and Quarter Rests
Identify ABA Sections in Classical Music
Perform on instruments using iconic representation of Quarter Notes/Rests
Listening focus and game
Listening to classical music pieces
Sing in Rhythm and one Pitch
Subdivisions
Perform diverse styles
Foriegn Language (Song and Game in Spanish – Bate Bate)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Write your own story and read in with student instrument performers
Instrument Families of the Orchestra
Listen to story told in Portugese Language
Dynamics
p = Piano (soft)
mf = Mezzo Forte (meduim loud)
f – Forte (loud)
Grade 3
Tournament practice – In class practice and races constructing measures of music
Cooperative pairings
Understanding Fractions in Music
Independent work
Sort and Check Routine
Assess Pitch
Live Feed: Detroit Symphony Orchestra “Musical Superheroes”
Grade 4
Reading/Performing Musical Notation (Lines and Spaces)
Recorder Method: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTHpKEqcm_UZvQRreeNduiXyO39b85Qin
Introduction to the recorder (fingerings, finger placement and coverage, hand placement, breath control, tone production, parts of the recorder)
Homework practice online
Students should practice as many as they can and advance as quickly as they can.
Perform exercises with and without a beat track
Vocabulary:
Brass
Percussion
Strings
Woodwinds
Conductor
Composer
Orchestra
Symphone
ABA Form
Melody
Dynamics
Long and Short
Loud and Soft
Sway
Skip
Dash
p = Piano (soft)
mf = Mezzo Forte (meduim loud)
f – Forte (loud)
Check it out!!
https://dearbornschools.org/images/articles/2016_Anti-Bullying_RALLY_Poster.pdf