Moretown Kindergarteners Play an Old Favorite!

 

Moretown Body Percussion Compositions!

 

MORETOWN group compositions

 

FES students are composing music!

 

Fayston Students' Impromptu Performance!

 

Fayston Kindergarteners Learn a New Music Game

 

Works in Progress! Waitsfield Students Compose Music

 

Warren Students Composing Music

 

Body Percussion Compositions

 5th and 6th graders are using a rhythmic literacy approach to creating their own body percussion compositions. 

Some Halloween Fun

 Music Students in the Mad River Valley explored the possibilities with a few classic Halloween songs. Here we are in Waitsfield having a bit of fun. 

Welcome Back!

MRV K-6th grade students are engaged with musical activities designed to help them experience and understand music in kinesthetic, auditory, cultural, and conceptual ways. With just one music class per week, we try to fit many activities into each class. These activities lead students to build the skills and understanding that can lead to a very meaningful life-long relationship with music. Our students are singing, dancing, and learning songs in Spanish. They are becoming musically literate by saying, reading, writing, and performing rhythms (takadimi, etc.). They are becoming literate with melody by learning to sing with solfege (Do, Re, Mi, etc.). This approach allows students to better identify notes and rhythms when they hear them, and write them with accuracy. Both of these skills are essential to composition, which is one of the goals for our older students as time may allow. We introduce much musical learning through the use of games, because having fun is a very serious musical goal! 

Waitsfield School Week of 3/12

 

Our 1st and 2nd graders are learning to play a probability game, using a song in Spanish called "Pala, Palita". 

With voting, our 3rd through 6th graders narrowed their list of over 200 song choices to sing for our Spring Concert scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 18th. See you there! 

Moretown School Week of 3/6

 Moretown 3rd and 4th graders decode the rhythm for "Vibora de la Mar" and sing it using takadimi language. 

Fayston School Week of 2/20

 Fayston Students use play to learn music! Here, they take turns during "Bell Horses".