Patrick Henry Room 216

Jolly Old St. Nicolas - 4th Grade Performance

Administrator — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:53:55 +0000

4th grade will perform Jolly Old St. Nicolas for the Christmas program on the recorders that the music program purchased for students this year.

Click on this link to hear the song
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Melody and its place in Music

Administrator — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:18:12 +0000

Now that you have become more comfortable with working with the recorder, we are going to introduce some musical concepts to you our lessons along with the new songs you will be working with. Please review this video and be sure you know the information that is presented in it.

6, 7, and 8 grade: Remember that I asked you to view the video at least one more time as a homework assignment before you come to class for our second session this week.

Learning to read the code with 3 Blind Mice

Administrator — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:30:17 +0000

This video reviews things we have talked about with rhythm all first quarter and how to read quarter notes and eighth notes. It also reviews the start of note reading we did at the beginning of the second quarter.

The video concludes with how to put these skills together into reading music and playing Three Blind Mice on the Recorder. It shows how to read the song while you hear it and then, it is performed so you can see the fingers and hear it.

Click here to follow the link

6th Grade Girls perform 3 Blind Mice at the end of today’s lesson.-6gradegirls3blindmice

4th grade Mr. M Miller’s performance 4th-grade-mr-m-miller

4th grade Mr. E. Miller’s performance 4th-grade-emiller-class-3-blind-mice

2nd Grade Mr. Weller’s Class 2nd-grade-weller-3-blind-mice

How To Hold the Recorder

Administrator — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:54:11 +0000

Today in class we started our recorder playing. We learned that our left hand goes on the instrument first and our right had goes at the bottom of the instrument. If you would like to review how to hold your hands and play our first notes, check out the video below to show you how!

Links for today

Administrator — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:29:10 +0000

Mary Had a Little Lamb

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Virtual Piano Keyboard

I Know that - Music

Iknowthat.com-math

www.gaggle.net

Letters of the Alphabet Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

Administrator — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:31:15 +0000

Students will be learning the song letters of the alphabet in order to star in a video that we will make for the Pre-K, K, and first grade classrooms.

Upper grade students will perform the song and show the movements of tall, small and fall so that the younger students can follow and learn that some letters stand tall and others have tails that point down along with the order of the alphabet.

Today, upper grade students were introduced to the video camera and how that video will be made

Locate items on the Internet Grades 4, 7, and 8.

Administrator — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:31:33 +0000

The Internet is a big computer data base and sometimes it can be rather hard to locate things because its so big.

George Boole came up with a way to search for things so that you would not have to look through thousands and thousands of hits before you found what you want. His ideas was called Boolean Logic think of it kind of like internet math. Please take a look at this web page and scan the information before we start class.

Welcome Back to Start a New Year!

Administrator — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:10 +0000

I would like to welcome everyone back to Patrick Henry for a new year. This school year is going to be a very exciting year and you have the opportunity to learn a great deal, IF YOU CHOOSE to give your best effort and become involved in making our school a great place to be.

This blog s set up to provide you with a place to find information that can help you be successful. I have taken the time to program reminders and useful information so that you will not be caught off guard or taken by suprise with events. Look to the left side of this page ———–>

Notice how there are events listed here and a count down timer so that you will know how long until those events happen.

This year, you will be recieving an email account and your own personal blog so that you can learn to make your own personal web page and publish information to the Internet. You will learn how you can use the computer to turn your work in and also how to collaborate with others so that we all can learn together.

Please take a moment to share your thoughts on the questions below. Once you have completed all your questions, please click “submit survey” and close your window by Xing out of the screen.

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1. Are you excited about starting school this year?

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2. What would you like to learn about in computers this year?

3. Would you be willing to stay after school to be part of a musical performance group?

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4. If a musical performance group could be formed here at Patrick Henry, would you prefer it to be a singing group or an instrumental group?

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5. Do you currently play an instrument now?

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6. If you answered yes to playing an instrument, what instrument do you play?

7. Each person is in charge of making their day a good one or a bad one. Each day you can start with a fresh start. What are some things you think would be important steps to make each day a good one this school year?

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