Halloween Parade

Thank you to those who came out to see our Halloween Parade! For those of you who missed it, click HERE to view a great video of the 5th and 6th grades doing the Monster Mash. If you have another version that you would like to share, please send it to me so I can put it up on the blog.

Grade 6 - Hambone

Students in Grade 6 have been working on improvisation for the past couple months. Improvisation is the process of creating an immediate musical composition without any preparation. Students learned an Orff arrangement of Hambone, which is based on a style of dance music from West Africa called Juba dance. During the B section, students were given the opportunity to improvise and create their own music. In each class video below, you will see three different students share their improvised work, while the rest of the class accompanies them:

Ms. Laden's Class
Mr. Palluzzi's Class
Mrs. Richard's Class