January 29 - Feb. 1

Seventh Grade - We will be practicing our pentatonic creations and performing them for our classmates.  They will do a rhythmic activity on Wednesday and they will begin to perform their pentatonic creations.  The students will have a WRITTEN TEST on Thursday 1/31

Eighth Grade - Students will be working on their reggae pieces this week.  They will write and perform them with their classmates.  There will be a WRITTEN TEST on Thursday 1/31

Chorus Class - Students will work on their piece of music for the spring show as well as work on sight singing.

January 21 - 25

Seventh Grade - We are creating rhythms using all of the notes and rests between and whole note and eighth notes.  We will be learning the pentatonic scale this week too. We will be combining our rhythms and the pentatonic scale to create a song.  We will have a written test on the notes and rests and their values on Tuesday Jan. 29th. 

We are writing rhythms on Tuesday in class, if they do not complete the assignment, it becomes homework.


Eighth Grade - We are preparing to write and finally play rhythms that we create using whole notes to sixteenth notes.  We will be using the rhythms to accompany ourselves when we write our calypso pieces.  We will be writing rhythms on Wednesday - if they are not completed in class they will be homework.  There will be a written test on Tuesday, Jan. 29th.

Chorus Class - We are working on sight singing as well as learning the rhythmic accomp. to our spring song.

Final Days of MP 2

Seventh Grade - We are doing the sing off.  Everyone can either be a judge or a singer.  We will work our way through until we get to the one winner of the sing-off.  We will also be listening to the student chosen songs and we will be critically evaluating them using our newly  honed listening skills.

Eighth Grade - We are in the midst of presenting our Rock and Roll Research projects.  We will be ending the marking period with an improv. singing.

Chorus Class - We are working on reading music!