What's Happening in EC Music

April 23-27

We make our scarfs dance to music set to Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days.  Ms. Beck joined in.

What's Happening in EC Music

April 2-6

We are lilies-of-the-valley planted around a garden walk by the fairy.  We can ring only when the fairy sings, as the song "White Coral Bells" tells us:

     White Coral Bells upon a slender stalk;
     Lilies-of-the-valley line my garden walk.
     Oh, don't you wish that you could hear them ring--
     That will happen only when the fairies sing.

What's Happening in EC Music

February 12-16

Students direct each other by moving behind props designating different lyrics for the song, I Love You Little, then indicating their peers' singing volume by raising a big heart for forte (loud) or a small heart for piano (soft).

What's Happening in EC Music

February 5-9

We don puppets to act out the song, Fiddle-Dee-Dee, in anticipation of St. Valentine's Day.

Mr. Elmore visits Great Beginnings classes weekly.  Students use shakers to buzz like a bee for Fiddle-Dee-Dee.

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January 29-Feb 2

For Pioneer Day, we listen to the book, Nathaniel's Day on the Oregon Trail, written and musically dramatized by EC Music Teacher Steve Elmore and read by EC Librarian Belinda Mould.  We use rain sticks to make a rain storm at the end.

 We had special helpers from the Lower School;

from left to right: 1st grader Olivia Kennedy; 2nd grader Omnia Wakil; and 1st grader Lili Bell

What's Happening in EC Music

January 22-26

We are multi-talented: we can keep a beat on spoons and washboards while singing Skip To My Lou and skipping.

What's Happening in EC Music

January 8-12

We watch a puppet show of Peter and the Wolf.

We become the characters.