"We Will Jingle" by Teresa Jennings is a HUGE Hit!

Playing the Jingle Bells with it is a lot of fun!!

Mrs. Mohns' class demonstrates!

The Role Music Plays in Movies....2nd Grade

2nd graders participated in a great discussion about how music has a starring role in movies and can even give us clues of what is going to happen!  We then experienced Igor Stravinsky's Firebird as background music for Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are, and how it is portrayed in Fantasia 2000 in a very different story.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice in First Grade

The First graders have had a wonderful time watching the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Fantasia 2000, and then acting out the story taking on the roles of the Sorcerer, the Apprentice, the main Broom, and the Broom Army! They have enjoyed learning how music can "tell the story" with the images and no dialogue.

Music Fun This Week

The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas is one of my very favorites. I am excited to share it with the 1st Graders (and 2nd graders who didn't experience it last year). I will read the story from a book that was my dad's (when he was a little boy) and play the music in the background. Then we will watch the video clip on Fantasia 2000 and even act out the story with the music.

Kindergarten Kids are finishing up the Carnival of the Animals with a video set in a zoo with live orchestra and animals.  2nd Graders are moving on to Stravinky's Firebird Suite with the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and video clip on Fantasia 2000.


Music That Tells A Story is such a fun unit for me to teach!  :)