Welcome to Auburn Elementary School's
Music Home Page
The music
program at Auburn Elementary strives to ensure that each student has a positive
experience in the musical classroom setting. We hope to instill a desire
within the students to make music a part of their lives, giving them a sense of
confidence in becoming active participants, listeners, and consumers of music
for their lifetime. Students are given the opportunity to participate in
singing songs, playing a variety of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic instruments,
and learning folk dances in a variety of styles and cultures. This helps
to create an understanding of how music is influenced by major historical
events. From these classroom experiences, students are given opportunities
to participate as a performer which may be presented to the public.
Children
are taught to read musical notation and understand the meaning of basic symbols
and terminology. Creativity is encouraged, and given specific guidelines,
students are able to compose and/or improvise short musical pieces.
Through guided listening, we strive to develop in each student the ability to
compare musical styles of the different time periods and composers within those
time periods. They also articulate an informed opinion using appropriate
music terminology. Our hope would e that each student would continue to
develop this ability for any music they encounter in their lifetime.
HERE ARE OUR MARVELOUS MUSIC TEACHERS!
