Kindergarten friends have been working in their classrooms on The Barnyard Moosical!
Below are the tracks to the songs so they can practice singing along at home.
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Happy New Year!
I want to start off saying that I am SO PROUD of all our NAPS students! Each of them worked so hard to prepare and perform in the Pageant and Pre-K Sing-A-Long this past December!
I am excited to start the new year with celebration! Throughout the month of January students will be learning about the traditions, culture and music associated with the Lunar New Year. They really enjoyed watching this video.
Additionally, each grade level will begin learning how to play an instrument this semester. 3rd, 4th & 5th graders will be studying violin. 2nd grade will be starting ukulele while 1st graders tackle the xylophone. Kindergarten students will be learning rhythms on the bucket drums and Pre-K students will work towards mastery of steady beat using simple percussion instruments (maracas, triangles & wood blocks).
Enrichments will be starting up soon as well! NAPSingers will meet on Mondays, Ukulele on Tuesdays and Recorder on Wednesdays. These clubs are open to NAPS students in grades 2-5. For more information visit the Enrichments tab.
We are off to an exciting start! I anticipate a season of fun and musical growth. As always, please let me know if you have any questions! (klehman@napschool.com)
It’s Pageant Season!
That festive time of year is upon us! Students have already begun preparing song selections for the NAPS Pageant. This performance will take place on Thursday, Dec 12th at 7:00PM. Below you can find all of the music for each grade’s performance. Auditions for 4th and 5th grade solos will take place on Nov 19th and 20th.
Additionally, our students have been invited to sing at the Naval Station Tree Lighting on Dec. 6th. There they will perform a selection of songs from the Pageant music so there is no need to prepare anything additional 🙂
Full Choir Songs K-4:
Kindergarten Song:
1st & 2nd Grade Song:
3rd & 4th Grade Song:
The Friendly Beasts
Pageant Songs (solos & choir)
Finale Song: K-5 Shine a Little Light
Grandfriends Day
On Tuesday, November 26th, NAPS will be hosting Grandfriends day. Our students have been preparing a short selection of songs to sing with them. PreK students will sing “Old Tom Turkey” and “I like Thanksgiving” while students K-5 will sing “Over the River.” Songs are below to practice at home!
*1/2 day pre-k students will also be singing these two songs for their Thanksgiving Feast
Veterans Day
On Friday, November 8th, NAPS students will be singing at our Veterans Day Ceremony. Lyric sheets will be coming home and the songs are posted below for extra practice!
Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade are singing “Veterans’ March”
Grades 2-5 will be singing a medley of the Armed Forces Songs.
Halloween 2019
Our Halloween Parade will be on Thursday, October 31st 2019. Students have begun preparing their songs already for this year and lyrics have been sent home on a bright orange sheet of paper. Below you will find some links and powerpoint materials to help your student practice at home.
Pre-K & Kindergarten will be singing “Hayride”
1st & 2nd Grade will be singing “Hey Jack!”
3rd, 4th and 5th grade will be singing “The Mysterious Ticking Noise”
All Classes will sing “Witches’ Brew”
Violins!!
Dear Parents,
Violin is off to an awesome start! All the students have received their assigned violin and we have all had our first lesson.
Here is a link to the Google Doc to keep a log of our favorite links and recordings of violinists! Please use this link to submit a recording under your child’s classroom teacher.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Dq5FFy3Sv1jD-cAAgZz9BBQqpWRVZddG7eTGkCyrT4/edit?usp=sharing
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions!
Ready or not, here come the Holidays!!
I can’t believe it, but its pageant season! It’s time for all of the holiday songs to get stuck in all of our heads for the next seven weeks! Fourth & Fifth grades will audition on November 19th for the Friendly Beasts and Pageant parts, and 8:00 am rehearsals on the porch will begin the Monday after Thanksgiving.
Happy November & Happy Singing!
All School:
One Small Voice
Winter Magic
Kindergarten:
If I Were a Reindeer
Hat for my Snowman
1st & 2nd:
A Nice, Nice Christmas
I Saw Three Ships
3rd & 4th:
A Song of Peace
Have a Happy, Happy Holiday
When the Holidays Come
Halloween! Yay!
We are so excited for Halloween this year! In addition to our parade and short musical performances, we will be hosting a Coffee & Bagel sale to fundraise for 4th grade’s trip to see Aladdin on Broadway! We will have Naval Bagels and Rise Up coffee available immediately after carpool at 8:20 until our parade starts at 9:00.
Halloween Songs:
Halloween Looby Loo
Ghost of John
Hakuna Matata
Witches Brew
A Whirlwind Start!
It has been a wild and wonderful start to the 2018-2019 school year here in the music room at NAPS! In the past seven weeks, we have started a new curriculum (MusicPlay), received generous funding for thirty violins and Orff instruments, started preparing for our Halloween Parade, planned a trip to see a show on Broadway, and are gearing up for two musicals and a ukulele concert all in the next two months!
Our new curriculum, MusicPlay, has a student login to access the site full of music, games, theory, & more! Visit the website at musicalplayonline.com and enter the username “student” and the password is “music18.” Please let me know if there are any problems with this.
We will start violin group lessons after Holiday Break in all 3-5th music classes. There will be more information to follow in coming months.