NAME:
Kathen Cowan
SCHOOL:
Overlook Elementary & Vail Farm Elementary
CLASS:
Music Class
SCHOOL PHONE:
223-8030 (Vail Farm)
Mrs. Cowan has been a teacher in the Arlington Central School District for 6
years. She performs regularly in the Kairos Consort (www.kairosconsort.org).
Mrs. Cowan lives in Highland,NY with her husband and two daughters.
Mrs. Cowan received her BS at Ithaca College and Empire College in applied
violin and voice. She received her MA at National University. Mrs. Cowan
studied violin privately with Gabriel Banat of the NY Philharmonic and voice
with Beatrice Littau of the NY Metropolitan Opera and Roxy Theatre.
Second & First Grades: Here we sing our heads off. We learn what a wonderful
instrument we have in our own bodies and throats. We sing every day! Then we
add the trial of as many instruments as we can get our hands on: violin,
cello, piano, xylophone, drums, rhythm sticks, tamborines, to name a few. And
we dance. We learn to share the space in the room in controlled specific
ways, to music and we dance and have fun.
For the Third Grades: We are going to spend the first few months learning the
science of music notation so that at the end of October we can order our
Recorders and get right to playing.