All around Mcguffey Montessori, students from age preschool to 8th grade have music class each week. Preschoolers are busy learning about and recognizing emotions through singing and moving while Kindergartners are taking their first steps into music theory by learning what a quarter note and quarter rest are.
1st, 2nd and 3rd graders are learning rhythmic memory, 2/4 meter (using pizzas, of course!), and learning to read treble clef respectively.
4th graders, too, are learning to read treble clef. 5th graders have taken on B, A and G notes on the recorder while accompanying their classmates on orff instruments.
6th graders have waded into syncopation — such an exciting moment when you hear music bend a little out of the square box of notes happening on the beat.
7th and 8th grade have moved up to 5 different chords on the ukulele, ever more challenging songs, and are taking their instruments home to practice using our lending program.
The entire school came together last Friday for our first official sing-along. Songs were chosen by the 7th and 8th graders from our new sing-along book and a few accompanied as well on their ukuleles. It was a wonderful time of coming together and making music and of course, happy memories.
