parent letter
Dear Parents/Guardians: Hello from the South Heart Elementary Music Room! I hope you and your child are looking forward to a great year of school. I would like for you to get to know me and read the exciting opportunities in music this year.
I am from Sonnette, Montana and am a graduate of Dickinson State University majoring in Elementary Education with an Instrumental Music Minor. It is my goal to play a positive role in your child’s music education.
I believe that children have a talent for music, and it is my job to support them in discovering their musical gift. In order to do this, all students will participate in a variety of music activities. These are designed to help each child develop musical skills and to become lifelong learners and appreciators of all types of music.
The musical activities we will be focusing on include: singing, playing instruments, creating and listening to music, moving to music and learning to work with the Kodaly method of solfege. All of these activities are part of the National Standards for Music Education.
The expectations when students enter into the music room are the following:
1. Come in quietly
2. Sit in Body Basics: legs crossed, eyes up front, hands in lap, sitting quietly
3. Respect classmates, teacher, and instruments
4. Do your personal best
5. Listen and have FUN!!
Many lessons will be performance based, and assessed on performance. For example: playing rhythms, and xylophones. Students will also be assessing themselves and their progress. Your child will be given the opportunity to perform in two school concerts with their grade level, one in December and once in the spring. Reminders will be sent home with your child one month before the concert date. I will have a dress code for the performances that the students must follow. This will consist of a NICE shirt and NICE pants (NO BLUE JEANS OR T-SHIRTS black or other colors is ok) for boys, and a dress or nice shirt and pants for girls.
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I am from Sonnette, Montana and am a graduate of Dickinson State University majoring in Elementary Education with an Instrumental Music Minor. It is my goal to play a positive role in your child’s music education.
I believe that children have a talent for music, and it is my job to support them in discovering their musical gift. In order to do this, all students will participate in a variety of music activities. These are designed to help each child develop musical skills and to become lifelong learners and appreciators of all types of music.
The musical activities we will be focusing on include: singing, playing instruments, creating and listening to music, moving to music and learning to work with the Kodaly method of solfege. All of these activities are part of the National Standards for Music Education.
The expectations when students enter into the music room are the following:
1. Come in quietly
2. Sit in Body Basics: legs crossed, eyes up front, hands in lap, sitting quietly
3. Respect classmates, teacher, and instruments
4. Do your personal best
5. Listen and have FUN!!
Many lessons will be performance based, and assessed on performance. For example: playing rhythms, and xylophones. Students will also be assessing themselves and their progress. Your child will be given the opportunity to perform in two school concerts with their grade level, one in December and once in the spring. Reminders will be sent home with your child one month before the concert date. I will have a dress code for the performances that the students must follow. This will consist of a NICE shirt and NICE pants (NO BLUE JEANS OR T-SHIRTS black or other colors is ok) for boys, and a dress or nice shirt and pants for girls.
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