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General Music
Notes from the Music Room
Here is what each grade level has been studying during the first marking period:
Kindergarten-Steady beat; talking voice vs. singing voice; low and high sounds
1st Grade- Form in music (same and different parts); using singing voice in a game
2nd Grade-Instruments families (brass woodwinds, strings, percussion); pitch matching
3rdGrade-Song form of call and response, cumulative, and verse/refrain; conducting pattern in 2/4 meter
4th Grade contrasting phrases within a song; conducting patterns in ¾ and 4/4 meter
5TH Grade- chord structure; accompanying songs using chords; theme and variation in music
Upcoming Events: 2nd grade to Strathmore Hall on Thursday November 19!! 4th and 5th grade chorus performance, Wednesday December 16th!! Yippee!!
Instrumental
Music
Instrumental Music News
All Instrumental Music Classes start on October 1st and 5th depending on whether the students have a Monday or a Thursday class. The students will be given their schedules on Friday, September 25. We are still in desperate need of instruments for some of our students. If you have or know of someone that has an instrument sitting around the house not being used, please consider donating it to the school and taking a tax deduction for the item.
Please help encourage your child to practice their instrument so that they will be successful in instrumental music. Our Winter Concert will be on Thursday, January 21. See you there.
Art
Art News
We accomplished a lot during the first quarter in art.
- Kindergarten students did projects that focused on lines, shapes, and colors. We did projects inspired by the artists Miro, Mondrian and Matisse.You have probably seen our puppets.
- First graders are bringing home their masks. Ask them which paper sculpture techniques they used to create their masks. They can also tell you how they added patterns and used symmetry.
- Second graders also learned about symmetry as they carefully observed and drew butterflies.
- The third graders worked very hard on self-portraits using correct facial proportions.
- Fourth and Fifth graders also used correct proportions as they drew figure drawings.
During the second quarter of the year third, forth, and fifth graders will be doing clay projects. First and second graders will do collage projects and in kindergarten will be exploring textures.
Hello Cannon Road Students and Parents!
Physical Education
Pumped Up in P.E.
We are moving right along in Physical Education class. Cannon Road Cougars at all grade levels have been working hard to learn techniques on how to be a healthy, physically-active individual. In the past couple of months, our younger students have focused on basic locomotor skills and how to apply them to changing levels, directions, and pathways. Older students now have the knowledge on how to incorporate the 5 Elements of Health-Related Fitness into their lives (along with dribbling skills, as in soccer and basketball). All together, we are scooting into our mini unit on the heart, in support of “Red Ribbon Week.”
Over the next couple of weeks, students will have the opportunity to pretend to be a blood cell, as it travels through the heart and lungs on a mission to deliver oxygen to the muscles of the body. We will be using scooters, tunnels, bridges, and various other materials to replicate the shapes of the heart, lungs, veins, and arteries. Please ask your children to share their experience.
Following this exciting activity, we move into a catching and throwing unit for all grades. It seems appropriate, considering we are surrounded by such sporting events as the World Series of Baseball and football season. Kindergarten and first grade will practice the skill of the underhand toss, while all other students will become accurate with the overhand throw.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at Cannon Road ES with any questions that you might have during the year! My e-mail address is Angela_Seufert@mcpsmd.org and the number to school is 301.989.5662. I hope that I will hear from you, for we will have many fun events planned for the upcoming months. Stay tuned for information about “Jump Rope for Heart” and Field Day!
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Counselor’s Corner:
Hello Cannon Road Families! For those of you who do not know me – this is my 12th terrific year as Cannon Road’s professional school Counselor. I can typically be found in the morning greeting students as they arrive and in the afternoon, with walkie-talkie in hand, calling the buses to take everybody home. In between those times, I spend my days meeting with students both individually and in small groups, for occasional “ lunch-bunches,” and for classroom meetings and guidance lessons.
In addition, I am a member of the IEP/EMT (Educational Management Team) that meets each week. I co-sponsor our safety patrols, and new this year, am team leader for the Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports team. (PBIS)
So far this year I have had small “get-togethers” with our new students in grades 1 -5, and have done introductory lessons with the kindergarteners. Very soon we will be learning how to “D.E.B.U.G” – a basic method of conflict resolution at C.R.E.S.
Guidance lessons for other grades and classes will be based on student and teacher interest, and classroom meetings will take place in all grade 2 – 5 homerooms periodically.
Also, if there is a small group or an issue you would like your child to be considered for (separation /divorce, grief, social skills, friendship, anger- management, etc.)or you have a concern you would like to discuss confidentially, please e-mail me at: (Lise_H_Valenta@mcpsmd.org)
or call the school’s main number: 301-989-5662, or stop me in the hall!
I appreciate your input. I also plan on providing more info. about PBIS. at one of the upcoming PTA meetings.
Be well…………………Lise Valenta |
