Updates From Your Specials Team

Art – Guidance – Library – Music – PE

MUSIC

Exciting things are happening in the music room! All of our students have shown amazing growth as musicians since school has started. Some of our main highlights from the quarter have been:

Kindergarten: Developing a sense of steady beat, identifying different voices.

1st Grade: Introduction to notation, identifying the form of a song.

2nd Grade: Introduction to sight-singing, reviewing notation, reviewing dynamics.

3rd Grade: Introduction to sight-singing, reviewing notation, singing songs as a round.

4th Grade: Introduction to sight-singing, reviewing notation (rhythmic and melodic), starting our recorder unit, singing songs as a round.

5th Grade: Introduction to sight-singing, reviewing notation, learning to read notation using counts, world music.

LIBRARY

Library Happenings!

Kindergarten: Working through Golden Sower Nominees.

1st Grade: Working on writing our own fables.

2nd Grade: Working on a fairy tale unit.

3rd Grade: Researching the Titanic.

4th Grade: Working on motivational posters to get students to read.

5th Grade: Working on campaign posters.

GUIDANCE

In guidance, we started the year off with our kindness kickoff. After that we learned about respect and responsibility.

Respect means seeing value in all people and things & treating them with care. Responsibility is taking action and understanding the impact of our choices.

Red Ribbon Week is coming up at the end of the month. Talk to your kids about making healthy choices!

ART

5th Grade: Line-tastic Name Designs! We're exploring the art element LINE and creating our own name designs. We've also started our Van Gogh sunflower mural!

4th Grade: Value Gets Spooky! We're focusing on the art element VALUE, all the way through to our Tim Burton-inspired self-portraits!

3rd Grade: An October Night! We're learning about perspective and watercolor wax resist as we paint our very own October night!

2nd Grade: Shape Monsters! It's all about SHAPES! Students are creating their own Picasso-inspired Frankensteins!

1st Grade: Spider Web Magic! We're using watercolor wax resist to make creepy, colorful spider webs!

Kindergarten: Say Pumpkin! It's all about EXPRESSION! Our personality pumpkins are happy, silly, sleepy, and surprised!

Coming Soon: Our Art Fundraiser! Stay tuned for details.

PE

For the last few weeks in PE, we have completed the PACER test with grades 3–5.

We have also started practicing our pickleball unit with all grades, practicing our serves and the rules of the game.

All kids have been super engaged and doing a great job learning this new game and using the equipment safely!