Admin
Mike Tedesco
acmullen
Christa Colpitts
Kevin T. Long
Laura Johnson
Adele Merritt
jennifervangennip
Cortney Anderson
Amelia Rogers
Rafael Alcolado
Chris Churchill
marlewis
Kathleen Fairchild
Angelik
Ro Majumdar
somiller58
Miss Mandy
lilyliu91
Dr. Bill Bailey
Maxine Profitt
dawnzurcher
KatherineLoza
Tracy Anderson
Rhonda Kent
apothier
Kersti Tacreiter
Hello families. Week 8 already! Hard to believe. We did our final CMJ 1 and 2 lessons today. Everyone worked through their lessons with ease. It is so exciting to walk by and see hands in Middle C position, songs being played, smiles on faces:) We also spent time talking about some of the composers [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
(from May 17th) Hello families. Have you ever sat with a child when they read for the very first time? That moment when you realize that they got it… Today felt like one of those moments. As we sat on the carpet eating lunch, I was helping a student understand a worksheet. I asked a [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
Hello again! We had another busy week. We reviewed grown up notes, note values, and the parts of the grand staff. We completed our lessons. And we worked in Concertmaster, doing letter name callbacks and true callbacks, and playing our solos for each other. We were just about to improvise when the bell rang. We’ll [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Hello Portage View families! This week we continued to work on our ensemble and solo pieces for the open house, as well as working through our individual lessons. Thank you so much for continuing the learning at home! The children are all diligently working through their workbooks and practicing repertoire songs, and it makes such [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Hello Portage View families! Week 4 was great… we are really enjoying having the piano in the multipurpose room. Today we introduced the ensemble piece for the Open House – Ode To Joy. The student’s sight reading is coming along so well. I brought the music, on the grand staff, and James asked if he [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Another awesome week! Today during floor time, we learned about the full name for the piano – the pianoforte. We learned that piano means soft and forte means loud, and the piano was different from the harpsichord and the organ, because it could be played soft or loud. We used the school piano to play [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Hello everybody! Sorry for the late post. We had another very productive class this week. During our floor time, we reviewed the Musical Alphabet (A B C D E F and G) again. Brianna moved on to the Grand Staff this week so we went over the part of the Grand Staff as well (2 [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back to MusIQ Club! So excited to have you back! We had a great first class today. Everyone came back ready to learn and have fun, and we did. Everyone completed their lessons, had time to play the new games they unlocked, and worked with me in their level. Level 1B (Ella) Today we [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
This week while we ate our lunches, we talked about the final worksheets in our workbooks, to be sure everyone was comfortable with the concepts taught this semester. We also reviewed which solo each student would be playing at our open house next week! I’m so excited! We had planned on doing one last lesson [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
This week while we ate our lunches, we talked about composers. We reviewed what we had learned about Mr. Bach, our teacher for 1A’s, and then we learned about Mr. Dvorak and Mrs. Beach, the teachers for level 1 and 2A. We also did a movement activity called Star Dance. After our lessons, we started [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
This week while we ate our lunches, we learned about Mr. Bach. One of the components of MusIQ Club is music history, and we learn about the composers who teach the Children’s Musical Journey lessons. Our 1A’s have Mr. Bach for a teacher for the next few weeks, so today we started with him. Also, [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Class this week was a brand new experience for a lot of our students. We didn’t use headphones, or even do a lesson with our famous composers. Instead, we started with a new callback song called My Aunt Came Back. Some parents may remember it from camp days:) There was a lot to remember between [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
We had another great class this week. We started by listening to Mr. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata while we ate our lunches. We talked about what we heard, and what we thought about while we were listening, and how music can make us feel different feelings. Then we went to our keyboards and reviewed “Group of [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
Great work this week Portage View! Down By the Bay was a hit! What great singing voices you have. Level 1A’s (Ella and Olivia) Today we talked about high sounds and low sounds (pitch) and short sounds and long sounds (rhythm). We reviewed how to find the C’s on our keyboards. If you’re not sure [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Hello MusIQ Club families! Welcome to our new students and welcome back to our returning students. We had a great first class! Level 1A’s (Ella and Olivia) Today we learned about high bird notes and low whale notes and how to find Middle C, and we learned the Musical Alphabet (A B C D E [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
This week at Portage View was Miss Rhonda’s first week teaching you alone, and she tells me that you did a wonderful job with your rhythms, learning about the stems on our notes now, and knowing the difference between line notes and space notes. Level 1A students complete Lesson 6, learning about holding notes. This [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
Great job this week! We warmed up with some finger number playbacks with fingers 2 3 4 of LH on group of 3 black keys: I would sing you 3 finger numbers and you played them and sang them back to me in unison. This is a great ensemble activity. Then we learned a new [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
Hello! It is so great to be at Portage View this year! We have a great class of 11 students meeting in the library, and I’m very excited to see what you will all learn to do this term! Below is a break down of what we have done in class, and what you can [...]
Filed under: Portage View Public School | Leave a Comment »
