America, the Beautiful

Each month First Grade learns a new Patriotic song.  In September, we learned You're A Grand Old Flag. 

The Patriotic Song for October is America, The Beautiful.  You can watch and sing along with the video below!

And, you all know how much we LOVE Elvis here at Clarksville Primary.  Soooooo, here is a video of the King singing America, the Beautiful!!!  Enjoy!

Yay, Elvis!!!  :D

Spoooooky Music week!

 I LOOOOOOOVE halloween!  And, I LOOOOOOOVE spooky music!  This week in music class we are doing lots of Halloween songs, poems, and even a creepy interactive halloween story. 

If you want to see the Spooky Pizza Delivery, click here or on the haunted house below!

Below is the video to creepy organ music (Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach).

Christmas at the O.K. Corral

Clarksville Primary 1st Graders will perform:

on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. 

at Clarksville High School Fine Arts Center 

Eric Whitacre

Miss Yerina is currently teaching most of my classes. She has chosen Eric Whitacre as the October Musician of the Month.

Eric Whitacre is a Choral conductor

and a composer. 

This month we are learning about what a conductor does, what a choir is, and listening to several songs that Eric Whitacre has written.

This week we listened to The Panther and The Cow.  We made a cow in class!

He has created 2 Virtual Choirs by combining videos of almost 200 people (submitted online) singing one of his songs!  Pretty cool!

Miss Yerina!

             Welcome Miss Yerina!

This semester we have a wonderful student intern (student teacher) from Arkansas Tech University.  She will be here for a few more weeks and is doing a wonderful job!  Her name is Katy Yerina. 

Katy graduated from Dover High School and will finish her degree in vocal music education this December.  When she finishes her time at th Primary School, she will be spending the rest of her internship with the Jr. High and High School choirs. 

John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

The Musician of the Month for September was John Philip Sousa. 

He was a composer who loved writing marching music.  His nickname is the "March King".  One song he composed is Stars and Stripes Forever.  Listen to the song here:

In class we watched this funny video of the Muppets performing Stars and Stripes Forever! 

 

You can learn more about John Philip Sousa by clicking here!