Merry Christmas!

Congratulations to everyone because all your hard work paid off.  You did really well on your tin whistle music "Joy to the World".  I am very impressed and am very proud of all of you. Thank you very much to all the parents for encouraging your children in practicing.  We sure missed a couple of you but we never forgot you.  Hoping that you all have a wonderful Christmas!  See you next year. 

Love from,
Miss Zabrina

Week 11

Hello everyone...

We have one more week left and we are half way through CC.  Can you believe that?  This week has been so exciting.  The rocket was a hit.  Thank you very much Mr. Herson.

I was so impressed with everyone sharing a current event.  Good Job!  Next week is Show and Tell (seems like everyone's favorite).  Bring something small enough that will fit in your pocket.

This coming week will be our last week for tin whistle. I gave out a song that we will play for the Christmas program (Joy to the World).  Your children will either have a Harmony part or a Melody part.  Please encourage them to practice (start practicing the scale for two to three minutes and the music for 7-8 minutes.  10 minutes everyday should be plenty enough).  We have two more weeks to practice (I believe it is not very difficult because the music uses mostly sliding scale up or down... yes, even the harmony part). It took me hours to write the music to make the harmony and the tin whistle chart with the music to make it easier for them to play.  I believe that if they practice they can do it.  Please, please, please encourage them to practice.  We only have very limited time to practice in class so they have to do it at home.  Thank you very much in advance.

For new grammar...

History - we march through the history sentence.
Timeline - we did the hand motions done during the opening ceremony.
Science - we sang through the other plants and did hand motions
  Asteroids - letter "a" hand floats in the air
  Meteors - letter "m" drive down
  Meteroids - letter "m" hand floats in the air
  Meteorites - letter "m" drive down and makes an impact on the open palm of your other hand
  Comets - letter "c" hand sort of making a letter C in the air
English - we sang slowly to the song of indefinite pronouns
Geography - point and say countries in Eastern Europe including Siberia in Asia
Math - skip count the cubes (repeated this over and over again)  I forgot my visual aid but I will try to bring it next time.
Latin - future perfect tense 
 Hint: like the future tense, to go to the future you use a bow (bo), we also use an arrow (ero)

That's all for now... for questions about music for the new grammar please refer to the previous post. Or see me during the lunch hour for other questions.

Thank you,
Zabrina