Challenge #3 is posted! Please click your grade level tab above (K-2 Challenge and 3-5 Challenge) to see the instructions. I can’t wait to see the instruments you find laying around your house! Remember to ask your parents if you can use them as an instrument.

Challenge 2 is posted! Check out your grade level tab to see your new challenge. Please send your submissions to my email farynie@dearbornschools.org.

I loved seeing your hand washing videos. What a great way to time our hand scrubbing by using our singing voices!

Here are some of the submissions:

I’ve posted a new challenge to both the Lower and Upper Elementary Challenge pages. All submissions can be emailed to me at farynie@dearbornschools.org Are you up for the challenge?

I am missing seeing all of you in the music room! However, we will sing, dance and play at home with these challenges. Young 5s, Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade will complete the Lower Elementary Challenges and 3rd, 4th and 5th grade will complete the Upper Elementary Challenges. I invite parents and teachers to participate as well!

Challenge #1 has been posted. Check your grade level tab (lower or upper elementary) above!

If you complete all of the challenges through June 8, you will be entered into a raffle! Any submissions, pictures or videos, can be sent to me by email at farynie@dearbornschools.org.

I cannot wait to see your submissions – good luck!

Love,

Mrs. Faryniarz

Students can listen to previously recorded concerts by one of the world’s most renowned orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic! https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/ This is a free link for 30 days!

Students can listen to previously recorded operas nightly by the Metropolitan Opera. https://www.metopera.org/about/press-releases/met-to-launch-nightly-met-opera-streams-a-free-series-of-encore-live-in-hd-presentations-streamed-on-the-company-website-during-the-coronavirus-closure/ These performances will be available via the Met Opera on Demand app.

Explore the Google Chrome Music Lab! This is a great online music resource to explore free of charge! Students can create their own music, explore different sounds and instruments and even be their own DJ. https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/

Oakman 2nd and 3rd graders will be performing for the school and Oakman friends and family Thursday, February 27 at 2:30 in the Oakman gymnasium. All are welcome to attend!

2nd graders will be performing songs about different colors in connection with the story, “The Day the Crayons Quit.”

3rd Graders will be performing songs about being a good citizen in connection with the story, “Say Something!”

There will be no Music Club Monday, Jan. 6. We will resume our normal rehearsal schedule on Monday, Jan. 13 7:45-8:30 a.m. See you then!

All grades in the music room are currently working on learning several holiday songs to prepare for the all-school holiday sing-a-long on Friday, Dec. 20.

Kindergarten is currently learning about opposites in the music room including fast and slow tempos. Ask your child to demonstrate fast and slow singing and movement!

1st graders are learning all about melodic direction – music going up and down. Ask your child to sing a melody that goes up and down or move like a slide whistle!

2nd graders are learning all about solfege and how it connects to the music that we sing. Ask your child to sing patterns using Sol, La, Mi and Do! One of the songs that includes Sol, Mi and Do is Mouse, Mousie which can be seen below.

3rd graders are also learning solfege. They continue their work from 2nd grade and add Mi, Re and Do to the scale. A popular song to learn about scales in music class is “Do Re Mi” from “The Sound of Music.” You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnBMAEA3AM

4th graders are preparing for recorders and learning and reviewing the notes on the treble clef scale. Here are some ways that we remember the pitches on the lines and spaces of the treble clef.

5th graders are comparing and contrasting different versions of the same Holiday Songs using venn diagrams. Ask your child if they can tell you some similarities and differences of the songs in these links:

Santa Claus is Coming to Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWv72L4wgCc

Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Jackson 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUW2pVAopc

Recorder order forms were sent home with Ms. Hespen’s class on Monday, Dec. 2. In order to purchase a recorder, these order forms, along with the $5 cost of the recorders, are due Monday, Dec. 9.

Please turn them in on time to ensure our order of recorders will be shipped before the holiday break! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you!

4th graders will be learning how to play the recorder after our holiday break. This is a great way for students to learn how to read music, coordination to play the notes and learn how to sight-read. The recorder is also a great pre-band or pre-strings instrument as it teaches the students many of the same things they need to know when they enter the band or strings program in 5th grade.

4th graders may choose to order a recorder from me for $5 or they can borrow one from the school-owned recorders (borrowed recorders will stay at school). Order forms went home today! They are due back next Monday, Dec. 9. A picture of the order form can be seen below.

This is an excellent unit that I’m really excited to teach and excited for the students to learn! It would be great if everyone had their very own recorder to take home and practice! If you have any questions, please let me know!

We will be having a holiday sing along the last Friday before our Winter Break, Dec. 20. All students will be singing traditional songs in the gymnasium. It’s a great way to send everyone off into the holiday season. Below is a link to a YouTube playlist of some of the songs that we will be singing. This is for any student who would like to practice at home.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ54ucwxPNKCq8n-RNV_YVQbEHhv_HiwX