Harvey Elementary
Harvey Lions
Mrs. Lee Howell
Harvey Elementary Vocal Music Teacher
lhowell@kusd.edu
Harvey phone: (262) 359-4040
MUSIC ROOM EXPECTATIONS
M Make your best effort.
U Use polite manners, be friendly.
S Solve problems with words.
I Instruments and books deserve respect.
C Carefully follow directions the first time.
Composing melodies in Second Grade
Welcome to the Harvey Music Room!
2009-2010
November 16, 2009, Harvey's Fourth and Fifth grade students started off the concert season focusing on songs about our country and it's symbols.
The Fourth Grade performed "Let's Sing America" where the symbols and documents that make our country great were studied. Did you know that that "Liberty Enlightening the World" is the real name of the Statue of Liberty? There were actually 3 Liberty Bells and every single bell cracked. No one has heard the bell ring since 1846 for George Washington's birthday!
Our Fifth Grade students played early historical figures that shaped our nation. We journeyed through the history of our American heritage learning important dates, facts and about documents that were important from the time of the explorers through the post Civil War Reconstruction. It is important that we all become involved in our community to understand what it means to be a citizen and what it took for our country to become a nation. Our parents did an awesome job creating costumes for our cast of "An American Dream."
The Harvey Second and Third Grade students gave the message "let's go green" by singing a musical by Teresa Jennings called "My Planet, My Earth" on Febrauary 25th with a standing room only crowd. It was a musical revue for our one and only planet. The students sang about learning to care for our eath by using 3 familiar words: reduce, reuse, recyle. Think GREEN everyone!
LOOKING AHEAD IN 2010
Second/ Third Grade Concert, February 25, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Kindergarten Concert, April 20, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
First Grade Concert, April 20, 2010, 7;00 p.m.
Kindergarten: Students have been working on reading rhythms and playing classroom rhythm instruments. They love anything that involves movement or actions. The Kindergartners are learning to follow directions and to work and sing as a group together. |
1st Grade: First graders have just finished a unit of "Peter and the Wolf" where they learned about the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, French horn, timpani, and the string family. this year. Classrooms work toward reading and notating music and to describe what they hear. |
2nd Grade: Second graders are beginning to read the notes off the musical staff and be able to identify most instrumental sounds. This is the first time the students have had a music text book and have to read the notes, rhythms, and words of the songs from their book at the same time. Whew..it's a lot of work! |
3rd Grade: If you hear your student repeating Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet or Space means FACE, then your 3rd grade student is learning the note names on the musical staff so they will successfully play the "recorder" during the Winter months. I feel 3rd grade is the most important year in the music class because students will play songs independently by reading music which is a life long skill. |
4th Grade: The 4th grade music year is fine tuning and preparing students to be ready for choir, band, or orchestra lessons. Music vocabulary and recognition of standard notation symbols and terms are skills to be refined. Students gain skills in describing, analyzing musical form of various musical genres.
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5th Grade: Our Fifth grade students spend time studying the musical elements that are used to make all kinds of music. During the Winter months we begin studying specific classical selections that they will be hearing in a May performance of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra. All activities are to prepare the students for their middle school music opportunities. |