From Music Teacher Owen Roberts

The children have been preparing twice over to share the good work that they have been doing in music class and they are proud to perform for the community on the winter solstice this Friday, December 21.

Please join us if you can that morning in the sanctuary of our neighbor Netivot Shalom at 9:15 to sing, dance, play, and reflect on a transformative beginning of the school year. And if you haven’t already done so, please click here to let us know you’re coming. The Family Association will host a full breakfast beginning at 8:30a so we want to make sure they can prepare accordingly.

This is a bit of a special occasion (it’s not every day that we put on a concert for our families!) and we’d love for our performers to keep that in mind when they get ready Friday morning.

Below is information about the songs that your Temescal student has sung, heard, and danced to over the last few months. Please ask them about the songs, have them teach you the games and dances, and share a laugh on a rainy day.

We Are Gonna Be Friends – by The White Stripes
Say Say Oh Playmate – a song with 2 (or 3) verses with a partner and hand claps
Four White Horses – another song with handclaps. We did it in groups of four, but it can be adapted to smaller or larger groups.
I Love The Mountains – a beautiful canon
With All Our Might – a melody in the round by Carl Orff with a simple lyric that I made up and the children played on the barred instruments
La Mariposa – a canon written by my friend Erika Englund with pitched and unhitched instrumental accompaniment
Shalom Chaverim – the classic Hebrew canon
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites #1 and 2 – We listened and danced to each movement of this dynamic piece.
Billy Preston: Outa-Space, Space Race, Struttin – songs that we have danced to in class…