It's TIme for Practice First Graders!

The first graders are getting ready for their Winter Concert on Friday, February 12th! We have been practicing together since yesterday, and this is a video of the students singing, dancing, and playing instruments during our all-class rehearsal in the gym. 

MDV First Grade Winter Concert
Friday, February 12, 2016
10:00 a.m.
MDV Gym

First Grade classes 2016 wiht Ms. Clark

The Snowman Dance

Let's Play in the Snow with Orff Instruments

Puff the Magic Dragon

Love Grows

We hope to see you all there on Friday! :)

Playing Piano + Brain = Success

 I found this picture online about the many, many benefits of learning how to play the piano. What amazing information to learn about! I feel lucky to be able to play piano all day, every day here at Meadow View. Everyone should learn how to play piano sometime in their life, it is SO much FUN!!

Sign-up your student for piano lessons today at the music shops today! 

 * Lake Country Conservatory

 or

* Hartland Music

Learning Rhythms and Reading Music

For the past few weeks the third graders have been learning how to read a variety of rhythms on the music staff in class. Today, Mrs. Steiner's class of third graders were saying and patting out the music written up on the board. They got all the rhythms correcct, and did such a nice job, that I thought I'd take a quick video. 

AWESOME job third graders! :)

Charlie Sings to His Ocean Friends

The Kindergarteners have been learning a song called, Charlie Over the Ocean. The song is a fun call and responce game where the students sit in a circle and one person walks around the circle singing while everyone else sings after them. They need to choose a student to tap on the shoulder when they sing, "can't catch me!" A fun catch game ensues around the circle, and the students need to try to get back to the spot before the student catches them. 

It's a very fun game, and as you can see the students are really enjoying themselves singing it! :)

First Graders Sing and "Play in the Snow!"

The first graders have been learning a song called, Let's Play in the Snow. We will be singing and playing this song on the Orff instruments for the Winter Concert on Februrary 12th. We hope to see all of you there! :) 

Kindergarten Learns How to "Shoe a Little Horse!"

The kindergarteners have been learning a fun song called, Shoe a Little Horse in music class. The purpose of the song is actually has two differnt learning experiences for the students. We also have a fun addition to the song, which the kids just love. A horse! :) First, one person gets to ride the horse and sing the song while they gallop around the circle of their classmates. The second experience happens when they ride the horse around the circle, students have to listen carefully to the piano. The notes played are either low or high, and students have to carefully listen to hear what notes are being played, and then they eithe reach their hands up to the sky for when they hear the high notes, and they put their heads down in their lap when they hear the low notes being played.

This song and game is so much fun to play! Enjoy the video. :)

 

Teaching Peace Song

TEACHING PEACE SONG

MDV Christmas Sing-a-long

It's that time of year again, and Christmas vacation is only hours away! That must mean that it's time for Meadow View's annual Christmas song sing-a-long in the gym!
The sing-a-long was so much fun, and it is always SO awesome getting to hear all the MDV students singing these songs together while I play the piano. I hope everyone enjoys their winter vacation, and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)

 The fourth graders performed a few songs from their Winter Concert before the sing-a-long, and they did a really great job singing, Winter Wonderland, Let it Snow with soloists, and last but not least, dancing The Nutcracker with almost 100 colorful scarves!! :)  Here is video of the fourth grade students performing The Nutcracker dance during the assembly.

Winter Concert FUN!!!

Tonight was the 4th grade Winter Concert at Meadow View. Everyone did such a WONDERFUL job singing, dancing and playing!! 

Awsome job, fourth graders!

Winter Concert Rehearsal-Fourth Graders

Fourth Grade Winter Concert Rehearsals

The fourth graders are keeping very busy preparing for our Winter Concert, on Tuesday, December 15th at 6:30 p.m. in the MDV Gym. We've been practicing our music, dancing, and practicing our Orff instrument parts since October, and we can't wait for all of you to see and hear what we've been working on for our concert!  

Here are a few video clips from our practice in the gym. Enjoy! :)

Winter Wonderland. I'm so happy that we were able to
capture this song on video!

Song of Peace has a lovely, but very challenging Orff instrument part to play. All fourth
graders learned and practiced this song for weeks in the music room.

The Nutcracker scarve dance! Loving this view from the top of the risers.
Thanks to Ms. Janny for taking such great videos of us practicing our music today! :)