March 2016 “Specials” Newsletter Physical Education Pre­K: ​
Students will explore different relationships with body parts while using their senses to explore a variety of movement experiences. Students will describe the differences between healthy choices and unhealthy choices. Students will maintain safety and self­space while traveling in general space and with a group. Kindergarten: Students will recognize the relationship between nutrition and physical activity. Students will work effectively with other others in physical activity settings, build and maintain relationships which develop a sense of community and a peaceful, healthy environment for all. First Grade: Students will integrate movement skills and concepts to demonstrate fundamental movement skills (jumping and landing) and proficiency in skill themes to maintain balance, transfer weight, and roll safely. Second Grade: Students will establish and modify physical activity goals while monitoring progress towards achievement in demonstrating a tumbling sequence using balance and weight transfer. Students will recognize the importance of positive feedback and that skills will develop with practice over time. Third Grade: ​
Students will demonstrate competency in balance and weight transfer in tumbling sequences and gymnastics apparatuses. Fourth Grade: Students will demonstrate competency in balance and weight transfer in tumbling sequences and gymnastic apparatuses. Fifth Grade: ​
Students will demonstrate competency in balance and weight transfer in tumbling sequences and gymnastic apparatuses. Mrs. Rogers (J​
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) Media Pre­K​
: Students will begin their Dr. Seuss author study in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America month. Kindergarten: Students will research a chosen animal using PebbleGo in order to create their own animal book. First Grade: Students will become Young Geographers by researching and taking notes on a chosen state or country. Second Grade: Students will begin their change in technology inquiry project. They will use a variety of sources to learn about how various instruments have changed over time. Third Grade: Students will use their knowledge of realistic fiction to create their own realistic fiction story. Fourth Grade​
: Students will use their comprehension of advertising to produce their own advertisement. Fifth Grade: Students will use WeVideo to create their own book trailer about a chosen book. Mrs. Savoy (​
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) Art Pre­K: Use color, line, and shape to represent ideas visually from observation, memory, and imagination. Students will explore color, line, shape, and basic principles of design in artworks. Students will categorize the subject matter of artworks as the same or different. Kindergarten: ​
Throughout the marking period, students identify connections between the visual arts and other content areas and identify reasons for creating personal artworks. First Grade: Students use art vocabulary to describe an artistic process and procedures for creating art. Students experiment with art media, processes, and techniques and describe ways they can be used to achieve desired results. Students classify reasons why people create and use art by analyzing form and function. They use color, line, shape, texture, and form to represent their ideas visually. Second Grade​
: Students use line and pattern in the representation of observed textural qualities. Additionally, students explore form and compare relationships between two­dimensional shapes and three­dimensional forms. Third Grade: Students explore cultural and historical influences and create artwork inspired from personal experiences. Fourth Grade: Students analyze artworks from different times and cultures to describe how artists express their ideas about human experience. Students express their point of view about their experiences in artwork. They will establish and use criteria for judging artwork. Fifth Grade: ​
Students take a closer look at how artists represent what they observe. This is another opportunity for students to apply techniques to create art in response to what is observed. Throughout the marking period, students establish and apply criteria for judging art. Mr. Varno (​
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) Music Pre­K​
­ To go along with their Growing­up Healthy theme, PreK student will be working on maintaining personal space and exploring body percussion sounds. In order to lay the foundation for music reading in the future, they will translate icons in sound and discover musical form through movement. Kindergarten​
­ K students will continue with Responding to music and Performing music. They will read and play rhythm patterns, develop an understanding of how to create good vocal tone and study musical form by looking for musical opposites­high/low, loud/soft, long/short. Featured songs/pieces are Old Brass Wagon, Oh­ a Hunting We Will Go and Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons Suite. First Grade​
­Students will be improvising to accompany a story, moving to music of various historical periods and take music dictation by using manipulatives to ‘write’ what they hear. The first story was There was an Old Woman, the next story will be from Brazil. Second Grade​
­ Developing improvisational skill on non­pitched instruments is the main focus. Conversely, students will be asked to write rhythms of a poem to relate the rhythm of speech to music notation. Third Grade​
­ We are all hoping everyone will be able to reach the green belt in Recorder Karate. Additionally, 3rd grade students will demonstrate on the recorder understanding of expressive music vocabulary­­dynamics, tempo and articulation.. Fourth Grade​
­ Upper grades recently prepared songs for the African­American Poetry Slam. They will continue this quarter with music and dance of North America, reading and notated sub­divided beats and making cultural connections. Fifth Grade​
­ Our main focus will be one reading, notating and composing. We will work with a process of how to read rhythm and pitch simultaneously and how to create and notate a melody. Dr. Lively (​
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) Instrumental Music th​
All instrumental music students are preparing for our spring concert on May 19​
. Students are now learning several new songs as well as new notes on their instrument and continuing to refine their musical expertise. Remember that all students should be practicing at least 150 minutes per week or more (30 minutes each day for 5 days a week) and parents should sign their child’s practice chart after each week has been totaled up. Remember, also to praise small improvements and help remind your child to bring their instrument on their lesson day (Monday or Tuesday)! Mr. Goba (​
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