Specialists Newsletter
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.