Beginning Monday, November 1st, 2021, our school will be introducing the Responsibility Room. The Responsibility Room will be used as a restorative practice to promote and reinforce positive behavior.
Our responsibility as educators is to ensure that our students leave our school with the highest level of education that we can provide. We also have the responsibility to shape our young minds to understand the difference between right and wrong. The consequences that come with wrong choices must align to the behavior so that our students learn from their mistakes.
The Responsibility Room will be a place where our students will go when they have been given multiple opportunities to change a negative behavior. Examples would be when a student is not following directions and is disturbing the classroom environment or a student is choosing to not participate in his/her learning community. It will also be a place for when students need to reflect on a negative behavior that has caused someone else harm.
In the Responsibility Room, students will be asked to think about why they demonstrated the behavior they did and how it negatively impacted them or those around them. Students will complete think sheets for reflection and to focus their thoughts, afterwards they will discuss how they could have made a better choice. If a student is sent for the reason of work refusal, then they will complete the work that they did not do in class.
Families will be notified if their student was sent to the Responsibility Room by their child’s teacher.
The Responsibility Room is our school’s second tier for behavior. If a student is continually sent to the Responsibility Room for the same reason, after three times the teacher will send the student to the office with an Office Referral.
Our teachers have been working very hard since the beginning of school to establish a classroom environment in which procedures and routines have been taught, practiced, reinforced, and mastered. Our students are held to that high standard each day, and they continue to rise above. With the introduction of the Responsibility Room, we are adding a way to be more reflective with students so that they will make better choices in the future.
Dear Howe and Haigh – Ms. Polidori’s 1st Grade Class, Ms. Lippert’s 1st Grade Class, and Ms. Morey’s K Class Families,
Please sign up for a conference with me, Ms. Wilder, Music Teacher at Howe and Haigh – Ms. Polidori’s 1st Grade Class, Ms. Lippert’s 1st Grade Class, and Ms. Morey’s K Class, using the link on SignUpGenius that I have provided below.
I am repeating this to ensure that all of my students receive the same information as many were missing from our Zoom meeting at Howe last week, but no worries!
21-22 – Special Ed – Week of 10/18 – 10/22
Instrument of the Week
The Woodwind Family
The Saxophone
The saxophone is a type of single-reedwoodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument’s body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes in the body to change the effective length of the tube.[2] The holes are closed by leather pads attached to keys operated by the player. Saxophones are made in various sizes and are almost always treated as transposing instruments. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.[3]
The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s[4] and was patented on 28 June 1846. Sax invented two groups of seven instruments each—one group contained instruments in C and F, and the other group contained instruments in B♭ and E♭. The B♭ and E♭ instruments soon became dominant and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the series pitched in C and F never gained a foothold and constituted only a small percentage of instruments made by Sax. High Pitch (also marked “H” or “HP”) saxophones tuned sharper than the (concert) A = 440 Hz standard were produced into the early twentieth century for sonic qualities suited for outdoor use, but are not playable to modern tuning and are considered obsolete. Low Pitch (also marked “L” or “LP”) saxophones are equivalent in tuning to modern instruments. C soprano and C melody saxophones were produced for the casual market as parlor instruments during the early twentieth century, and saxophones in F were introduced during the late 1920s but never gained acceptance. The modern saxophone family consists entirely of B♭ and E♭ instruments. The saxophones in widest use are the B♭ soprano, E♭ alto, B♭ tenor, and E♭ baritone. The E♭ sopranino and B♭ bass saxophone are typically used in larger saxophone choir settings, when available.
The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe, and oboists typically double on the cor anglais when required. The cor anglais normally lacks the lowest B♭ key found on most oboes, and so its sounding range stretches from E3 (written B♮) below middle C to C6 two octaves above middle C.
The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. It is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear and has four pierced holes.
Question
What was the first song?
“Hurrian Hymn No.6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.
The Dearborn Public Schools has purchased the rights for all of our students to utilize Quaver, again, for this year! Yea! This is a great online Music Resource.
To register your child and/or children for Quaver, please follow the following steps.
If you want to be able to use all of the functions of Quaver and have your child and/or children to have access to Quaver, which is an online Music Learning Resource, you will need to reigster your child and/or children register via clever.from home,.
You do not need a code.
Please log into your child’s and/or children’s student portal individually.
Click on Clever.
Then, click on Quaver.
***When the Quaver Screen comes up, you will need to click NO.
That is it! There is no Code, nothing else that needs to be done.
Again, please have your child and/or children,
1. LOG in to to Dearborn schools like they ALWAYS DO
2. Click CLEVER
3. CLick QUAVER
4. CLICK NO
Then, your child and/or children will be all set to access Quaver, which is an online Music Learning Resource that the Dearborn Public Schools have purchased the rights to share with all of our DPS students.
Please let me know if you need any assistance. Please feel free to contact me via email at wilderj@dearbornschools.org, and via Schoology and I will assist you.
The saxophone is a type of single-reedwoodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument’s body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes in the body to change the effective length of the tube.[2] The holes are closed by leather pads attached to keys operated by the player. Saxophones are made in various sizes and are almost always treated as transposing instruments. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.[3]
The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s[4] and was patented on 28 June 1846. Sax invented two groups of seven instruments each—one group contained instruments in C and F, and the other group contained instruments in B♭ and E♭. The B♭ and E♭ instruments soon became dominant and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the series pitched in C and F never gained a foothold and constituted only a small percentage of instruments made by Sax. High Pitch (also marked “H” or “HP”) saxophones tuned sharper than the (concert) A = 440 Hz standard were produced into the early twentieth century for sonic qualities suited for outdoor use, but are not playable to modern tuning and are considered obsolete. Low Pitch (also marked “L” or “LP”) saxophones are equivalent in tuning to modern instruments. C soprano and C melody saxophones were produced for the casual market as parlor instruments during the early twentieth century, and saxophones in F were introduced during the late 1920s but never gained acceptance. The modern saxophone family consists entirely of B♭ and E♭ instruments. The saxophones in widest use are the B♭ soprano, E♭ alto, B♭ tenor, and E♭ baritone. The E♭ sopranino and B♭ bass saxophone are typically used in larger saxophone choir settings, when available.
The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe, and oboists typically double on the cor anglais when required. The cor anglais normally lacks the lowest B♭ key found on most oboes, and so its sounding range stretches from E3 (written B♮) below middle C to C6 two octaves above middle C.
The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight, cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called aclarinetist (sometimes spelled clarinettist).
The clarinet, French clarinette, German Klarinette, single-reed woodwind instrument used orchestrally and in military and brass bands and possessing a distinguished solo repertory. It is usually made of African blackwood and has a cylindrical bore of about 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) terminating in a flared bell.
The important take away is that the clarinet is part of the Woodwind family.
The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. It is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear and has four pierced holes.
Question
What was the first song?
“Hurrian Hymn No.6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.
Question
Do all saxophones have a curved like bell shape?
Answer
No, there are some saxophones that do not have a curved bell. Please refer to the video after this fact.
Jump In, Jump Out (From Gullah, Gullah Island) Jump in, jump out Turn yourself about Jump in, jump out Introduce yourself My name is ________ And I like to _________ (some examples are Sing, Dance) I like to _________ (use the same word you just filled in above) Every day of my life Jump in, jump out Turn yourself about Jump in, jump out Say it with a shout! (Repeat and continue for each child)
I have created new Music Class Zoom Links on Schoology for my Montessori Classes, but I am also providing these for you via my blog, as well, in case you needed these links.
We have two different Zoom links for 1st Grade, because we have Music Classes on two different days and at two different times. I have specified this on Schoology to prevent any confusion.
I feel certain that you have heard the news that we, Howe School, will be on a pause for the next week.
We will have asynchornous learning on Monday, October 11, 2021, and this means that you child and/or children can learn when he/she and/or they choose to with the online Music Lesson for October 11 – 15 that I have provided on Schoology, if you child and/or children have Music Class on Monday, October 11, 2021.
We will have synchornous learning on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, to Friday, October 15, 2021, and this means that your child and/or children will attend our Music Zoom Meetings during their regularly scheduled Music Classes for the rest of the week through these Music Zoom Meetings and I have already provided a links and/or links for you on Schooology, as well.
If you have any questionsa and/or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to my via Schoology, via my email – wilderj@dearbornschools.org, and/or via my personal cell phone 248 – 413 7942 and this is especially importnat if you cannot gain access to our Music Class Zoom Meetings during your child and/or children’s Music Class times.
We were informed that Mrs. Keebler is offering an amazing opportunity for our 4th and 5th Graders on Tuesdays as well, which is the Green Team which meets the first and 3rd Tuesday of the month for 4th and 5th graders.
In light of this, if it is not too much of a disruption, we would like to switch the days of our Howe Montessori Honors Music Classes.
Here is what our new schedule will look like on a weekly basis with a specified starting date.
TUESDAYS
Howe Montessori Honors Music Classes for our Grade K, 1st, and 2nd Graders
will occur on Tuesdays from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
and this will begin on Tuesday, October 19, 2021,
and will end on Tuesday, May 24, 2021.
THURSDAYS
Howe Montessori Honors Music Classes for our 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders
will occur on Thursdays from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
And this will being on Thursday, October 21, 2021,
And will end on Thursday, May 26, 2021.
Please reach out to Ms. JaNell Wilder if you have any questions or concerns about this change in our Howe Montessori Honors Music Classes.
Additionally, students enrolled in either one of these classes will be experiencing lots of fun activities, which will include the following: singing; playing singing games; learning about rhythm and creating rhythm; learning about the lines and spaces on the staff and the letter names of these lines and spaces; playing instruments like xylophones and metallophones and other instruments, as well; and more.
Please continue to send in your forms to the office and we will enroll your child and/or children in one and/or both of these classes.
“Hurrian Hymn No.6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.
The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. It was discovered in Divje babe cave near Cerkno and has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. It is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear and has four pierced holes.
