Specialists Newsletter

By Specialists Team
Specialists
December 01, 2023

Important Dates & Reminders

  • Save the date for our Winter Concert, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. 5th and 6th graders in band, strings, and chorus will perform for the school at 2:00 PM and for the community at 7:00 PM. We are looking forward to showing everyone what we can do with our music!

What are we learning?

PE

  • K thru 6 grades are participating in dribbling using hands activities.

Music

  • K-2 students will learn about the music composer Franz Joseph Haydn. 
  • Grade 3 students will learn about the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky as they study The Nutcracker Ballet. 
  • Fourth-grade students will learn about Mozart. 
  • Grades 5-6 students are creating music accompaniments to a movie scene from Peter and the Wolf with classroom instruments.

STEAM

  • Students are working on experiments and graphing information. 

Library

  • Thanks to all who shopped at our Bucknell Book Fair!!  
  • We’ll be reading versions of the Gingerbread Man and World Holidays into December.

Band/Strings

  • 4th-grade strings students are beginning to use their bows - preparing them and learning how to hold them.
  • Please help your child remember to bring their instrument on band/strings days: Tuesday or Wednesday for strings and Wednesday or Friday for band.