Our first few months together have been an adventure into different styles of music, movement, literature, and a whole bunch of things! Here are a few scenes from class!
Kindergarten students make their scarves "look like the music they hear."
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"Owl City" goes unplugged 
I brought in my Roland Juno-106 vintage analog synthesizer from 1984 and we experimented altering the sound wave and comparing it to the digital Alesis QS8 from 14 years later (now a "vintage synth itself". (Sorry for the stock photos, lost the action shots in a phone upgrade. :( )
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Fifth and Sixth graders explore a new issue of Music Alive.
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| First and Second graders play Pass the Bean Bag. |
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Singing in the music room version 2.0! Then analyzing our performance.
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Third and Fourth graders discover some elements of Jazz with piano great, Vince Guaraldi
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Where can you practice your guitar in front of two 1200 watt Behringer loudspeakers? Yeah... the music room... :)
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| The cast members of the performing group Stomp show us that there are TONS of things we can use to make music in all kinds of creative places! |
What do J.S. Bach and heavy metal band Mountain have in common? We used the tunes "Mississippi Queen and "Prelude in C" to find out.
Coming soon.... photos from 5th - 8th grade's drum circles! (I need to reshoot them because they got lost when I upgraded my phone. :( )
Analyzing "Shooting Star" by techno band, Owl City. (Featured artist in October 2012 issue of our class magazine series "Music Alive.")
What do J.S. Bach and heavy metal band Mountain have in common? We used the tunes "Mississippi Queen and "Prelude in C" to find out.
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