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Music Room News

Dear Canyon Creek Families:   

Congratulations to our Canyon Creek Kindergarten performers for an 
outstanding Thanksgiving program on Tuesday, November 24th!  I know their 
performance put everyone in the holiday spirit.  Happy Thanksgiving to all of 
our Canyon Creek families!

Our 4th Graders are making terrific progress with their recorders.  Several 
students have already earned their Black Belts in Recorder Karate!  Check out 
the posters in the Music Room hallways as we track our progress by 
earning "Recorder Karate Belts".  

Our 5th Graders have just begun their recorder unit.  We'll also be 
learning "Kris Kringle's Jingle Thingle" to share at the All School Sing 
Along on December 18th.

Preparations are underway for the 3rd Grade Multi-cultural holiday 
musical "Paint the Town December".  Parts, costume information, etc. was sent 
home with 3rd graders in their Tuesday folders on November 24th.  Practice 
those lines over the Thanksgiving holiday break.  We'll have our first 
blocking rehearsal on Monday afternoon, 11/30.  Hanukkah and Rockin' on the 
Housetop dancers - remember your early morning rehearsal at 7:30 am on 
Monday, 11/30.

Our 1st and 2nd graders are continuing to work on rhythm and melody 
activities by singing and playing classroom instruments.  Please ask them to 
share what they are learning with you!

Remember to make music part of each and every day!

Debbie Martin 
Music, Canyon Creek Elementary

A general statement, taken from TEA TEKS about what your child will be 
learning in Music:

Four basic strands--perception, creative expression/performance, historical 
and cultural heritage, and critical evaluation--provide broad, unifying 
structures for organizing the knowledge and skills students are expected to 
acquire. In music, students develop their intellect and refine their 
emotions, understanding the cultural and creative nature of musical artistry 
and making connections among music, the other arts, technology, and other 
aspects of social life. Through creative performance, students apply the 
expressive technical skills of music and critical-thinking skills to 
evaluate multiple forms of problem solving.  By reflecting on musical 
periods and styles, students understand music's role in history and are able 
to participate successfully in a diverse society. Students analyze and 
evaluate music, developing criteria for making critical judgments and 
informed choices.

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