All parents and family members are invited to attend our Honors Choir Performance of the Musical “A NEW DAY” on Wednesday, May 24 @1:30pm in the Miller Elementary School Cafeteria. See you there!
May19
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Apr12
Field Trip to Rackham Auditorium Ann Arbor
Today Ms. Harden took the After-school Drumming and Honors Choir Students on a field trip to see A FAR CRY and A ROOMFUL OF TEETH musical groups. This spe ial concert was held at Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Everyone had a great time at the concert! Next, we drove through downtown Ann Arbor for a little site seeing and ate our lunches at a local park on this beautiful day.
Mar3
3rd Grade Music Tournament Winners!
The 3rd Grade Music Tournament was held on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 on the Miller Stage. All third grade classes were in attendance for this special tournament.
The eight finalists were:
Khalid Binhabib (Elkadri)
Nour Bazzi (Elkadri)
Mohsen Sharian (Mikho)
Amenah Aljahmi (Mikho)
Mohammed Mattit (Hammoud, I)
Habib Bazzi (Hammoud, I)
Alaa Saeed (Bridgeman)
Hady Bazzi (Bridgeman)
They competed in an 8 person bracket, randomly selected and competed in single elimination until the winner was crowned. Congratulations to this year’s Champion, AMENAH ALJAHMI and Runner-Up Mohammed Mattit for a job well done! Congratulations to all participants. You made your classes proud!
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Feb16
CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS!!
UPDATED CONCERT INFORMATION!
Concert season will be upon us before you know it! Here is a list of concerts, performances and other events that are scheduled so far. Keep checking back for updates!
February 9 4th grade field trip, Dearborn Symphony Orchestra
Ford Community and Performing Arts Center
February 28 Ms. Harden’s Birthday!
February 28 3rd Grade Music Tournament in cafeteria 10:30am
March 2 Honors Choir sing National Anthem at Edsel Ford High
School Basketball Game 7pm
April 12 Honors Choir/After School Drummers (WBPE) Field Trip
to UMS Performance Of A ROOMFUL OF TEETH, Rackham
Auditorium, Ann Arbor All Day
May 10 2:30p.m. Instrumental Music Concert Band/Orchestra/Drumming
(Gozzard/Harden)
May 11 Moms and Muffins Concert Kinder 9:30 (Harden)
Moms and Muffins Concert 2nd grade 10:30am (Harden)
<May 11 5p.m. Potluck Dinner Performance Honors Choir soloists/Grade 3 (Frederick and Mills)/WBPE Drumming
Club (Tuesday group)
strong>May 12 Moms and Muffins Concert 3rd grade 10:00am (Harden)
May 15 Moms and Muffins Concert 4th/5th grade 9:30am (Harden/Holmes/Conway)
Moms and Muffins Concert 1st grade 2:30am (Harden)
TBA Feeder Concert at Fordson High School TBA
(Holmes/Conway)
Feb15
Fatima Almosawi – Recorder Soloist!!
5th Grade student Fatima Almosawi had the distinguished honor of playing onstage with the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra as a recorder soloist! The music she played was the Ode To Joy from the 9th Symphony of composer Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The concert took place at 9:45am on Feb. 9, 2017 in the Michael Guido Theater of the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. The concert hall was filled with 4th grade students from all over Dearborn for this wonderful pedogogical concert. Great job to Fatima Mr. Jim Walters, conductor Kypros Marku and the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra!
Ms. Harden and Ms. Conway
Mr. Walters having fun with the crowd.
Feb13
Gr. 2 Circle dance to “Jim Along Josie”
Feb13
Gr. 2 – Piano Keys
Students in Grade 2 learn where the keys are on the piano by playing their own original group compositions using the D Pentatonic scale.
Feb13
Grade 3 Creates and Sings Rhythmic Compositions
Students in Grade 3 learn to create, sing and sight-read original rhythmic compositions.
Feb13
Young Composers!
Students in Grade two,composed their own melodies to the Poem “Happy Thoughts”. They each had the opportunity to practice playing it on a xylophone/metallophone while the other group members sang along!
Nov4
November Objectives and Vocabulary Words
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)