The high school choir students have been singing a variety of music–everything from early classical to pop. Of course, the students’ favorites are the pop songs! It is important for the students to sing songs from all genres of music. I choose selections based on what we can learn from them. For instance, singing [...]
We are preparing for the Prairie Harvest Festival in Britton on October 26th. We have been working on some challenging music for the last several weeks. I am very proud of our students because they have worked very hard and have almost all of the music ready to go. We have one piece we [...]
We are into one of the students’ favorite times of the year – Halloween! The children just love singing Halloween songs and doing activities that go along with the songs. Halloween songs lend themselves to the teaching of major/minor key signatures. We also learn about whole steps and half steps. We study the ‘tone [...]
