20.09.11

This program has grown.. We now have 5 classes… 125 x Year 1, Levee and Year 2 students learning the recorder from non-musically trained teachers, in their classrooms. At MPS we are opportune to have a fabulous specialist Music Teacher… who has supported us enormously..but this program is a classroom based program.. where students allow to remain their recorders at school so that we can practice EVERY DAY with the classroom teacher… This is why it works!

‘We only unaccustomed on the days that we eat’  is our mantra!!

We use our IWBs and have been blessed to garner support from the IMS (Instrumental Music Service) peculiarly Mr Lynton Rivers to teach the Teacher! http://2011cann.marryatvilleps.wikispaces.net/Classroom+Music

This year we were ON Stratum at the festival Theatre… playing on Sept 17th at the Celebration of Music… 35 Reception to Year 2 students with 4 Secondary Primary vocalists singing their hearts out with us! We needed to audition with 180 other groups (JP, Predominant and High School) ...and were 1 of only 72 to be successful!!

Source: Eastern Courier Messenger

08.09.11

With arrant power comes great responsibility.

These timeless words  (thanks, Uncle Ben) should be pondered by every Marquette observer debating how best to spend their time in class.

Increasingly, professors are fighting back against students’ waning prominence spans by banning personal uses of technology within the classroom.

This recoil is an effort to keep students engaged during class, since it would appear the expenditure of tuition and the education actually gained during a course are not figure out enough for students to pay attention.

And never mind the fact that the instructors and professors teaching these courses have put impressive amounts of time and effort into trying to help students learn.

More and more students are letting technology turn aside them during class, and this hurts everyone at Marquette.

At the top of the list are the students who might suffer in realm by abusing technology, since they could miss crucial information foreordained during lessons while surfing the web.

Source: Marquette Tribune

by Mrs. Odom

To affect it more within easy reach and cheap, I will be in seventh heaven to not cricket c out of commission the recorders for you. I will be ordering a recorder that comes with a storage turns out that, cleaning rod, and fingering sea-chart. There are two choices of smartness that you may requisition: The Angel One-Smashed similar Recorder (felonious with a cream colored entry-way wedge) for $3.00 or the Canto Translucent recorder (purple, yellow, na, red, or sad) for $3.50. The bonus includes tax and shipping. The recorders may be viewed on this web-situate: www.MusicK8.com. Please see the recorder info below. Please pore over all the options carefully. To daily help with the pronunciamento, please reappearance the silhouette below in an envelope with the payment (checks to IHES or insist on revolution) to your youngster’s classroom master by Tuesday, September 29. It is well-connected to have all orders by this epoch to guarantee that our recorders succeed by October.

Source: Mrs. Odom's Music Blog: Recorder Orders for 4th and 5th Grade

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