Quarter 2, Week 3 (10/30-11/3)

Summary

The big event this week is Field Day!

Table of Contents

Mrs. Balmer

Miss Hibler

Mrs. Keller

Dr. Lee

Sra. Puopolo

Miss Schosek

Coach Walsh

Mrs. Welch

Coach Woods

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Mrs. Balmer (Music: 3-5)

Our focus continues to be preparing for the Winter Concert. Due to testing and field day, there will be several days in November that students will not come to Music class. It is imperative that everyone review their music at home. All practice materials can be found at the link below or using the link at the top of the Specials Home Page. This week we will also introduce our new Composers of the Month and continue reinforcing our music reading skills. As always, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. 

Viva la Musica!

Winter Concert Rehearsal Tracks

Composer Playlists

3rd Grade (Composer of the Month: Franz Joseph Haydn)

4th Grade (Composer of the Month: Frederic Chopin)

5th Grade (Composer of the Month: Clara Schumann)

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Miss Hibler (Art: K-2, 3A&B)

Kindergarten

Kindergarteners will complete tracing their organic shapes and add a pattern to each. We will study how repeated elements can create a design. 

First

Student will use paper in creating texture of a real and windup mouse and glue it to their previously made backgrounds.

Second

Second graders will begin a more detailed study of values and create a value scale.

Third

Third grade will continue their Goldfish replicas and begin adding details to their work. Students will finish the week by adding crayon lines to frame the smaller details to paint next.

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Mrs. Keller (Drama: 6)

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Test
• Playwriting
• Blocking Scenes 4-5

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Dr. Lee (Latin: 3-6)

3rd and 4th

Stories about Prometheus and vocabulary games this week.

• 3rd grade Latin Practice Log
• 4th grade Latin Practice Log

Songs of the week: The Sum Song and Amo La Bamba.

5th

We're reading chapter 3 of Cambridge Latin Course this week and learning about further uses of the Accusative case.

Song of the week: The Sum Song and The Pontifex Song.

6th

We finish chapter 3 of Lingua Latina this week, re-learn how to decline 1st declension nouns, and compete in declension wars.

Songs of the week: The Sum Song and The Pontifex Song.

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Sra. Puopolo (Spanish: K-2)

Kinder, First, and Second

Students learn more about the holiday el Día de los Muertos, identifying typical decorations, such as tissue paper flowers and sugar skulls. Students also are learning family member vocabulary.

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Miss Schosek (Music: K-2 & 6)

Winter Concert: December 1st 5:30PM at Trinity Baptist Church (319 E. Mulberry) 

Students arrive at 5:10PM dressed in concert attire. 

Concert attire: 

-Boys: white oxford style shirt, black slacks, a black belt, black dress shoes and socks, and a tasteful tie or bow tie preferably in school colors (no pop culture or musical ties).   

-Girls: white blouse (no halter tops or spaghetti straps), a black skirt (knee-length or longer), black dress shoes (no high heels), and appropriate under-garments.  Girls may also wear a solid black dress if this is preferable. 

Sneakers or athletic shoes are not permitted.

*If unable to attend, please email Miss Schosek by Friday, November 3rd  

Listed below is a summary of what your K-2, 6th grade scholars will learn in Quarter 2, Week 2:

Kindergarten:

• Practice steady beat improvisation.  
• Learn to create a visual for high and low voices.
• Improvise loud and soft (piano and forte).
• Learn facts and musical compositions about Joseph Hadyn.
• Concert Songs #1, #2, and #3.

1st Grade:

• Practice reading quarter and eighth note patterns in known songs. 
• Learn to label and notate so-mi in traditional and staff notation.     
• Learn facts and musical compositions of Felix Mendelssohn.  
• Concert Songs #1, #2, and #3.

2nd Grade:

• Practice writing rhythmic patterns that contains half notes.  
• Analyze repertoire that contains a pitch, re, between mi and do.
• Learn facts and musical compositions of Fanny Mendelssohn.  
• Concert Songs #1, #2, and #3.

6th Grade:

• Continue to write major scales using the pattern WWHWWWH. 
• Sight reading complete and incomplete major scales on the staff with solfege and hand signs. 
• Concert Songs #1, #2, #3, and #4.

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Coach Walsh (P.E.: K-2, 3C&D)

Hello K-3 Griffins! 

Field Day is this week! Here are the scheduled dates:

• November 1 -1st & 2nd grades
• November 2 - 3rd & 4th grades in the morning and Kinder in the afternoon
• November 3 - 5th & 6th grades

All scholars have done a great job practicing and preparing for field day! Goodluck to all teams this week!

Go Griffins!!

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Mrs. Welch (Art: 3C&D, 4-6)

3rd grade

The students will continue coloring (adding details, shadows, highlights) a replicate of John Audubon’s male cardinal.

4th grade

The students will begin their study of Paul Klee’s use of shape and value in his art.

5th grade

The students will continue to work on their replicate of Albrecht Durer’s rhino.

6th grade

The students will continue to replicate a 17th century lithograph of an owl.

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Coach Woods (P.E.: 3A&B, 4-6)

Field Day is this week! Here are the scheduled dates:

• November 1 -1st & 2nd grades
• November 2 - 3rd & 4th grades in the morning and Kinder in the afternoon
• November 3 - 5th & 6th grades