As our third graders get ready for the Princess Ball they are practicing being proper ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoy their first waltz. (please excuse the icky piano playing I was just trying to keep the beat going, shout out orders and video all at once- not enough hands!!!) Iʻll record it again soon with no wrong notes.
3rd grade waltzing from KSH Kula Ha’aha’a on Vimeo.
Our first graders make up motions to the Pono Song to remind us all the best way to behave in school Yay first graders, good job!!!
Please use our new user friendly way to register for Keiki Choir and let us know how you like it. I am looking forward to a wonderful year with your children.
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Aloha and welcome back to school and to music class. We are very excited to begin a new year of singing, moving, dancing and playing instruments.
For your viewing pleasure, the music blog: http://blogs.ksbe.edu/cydebus/ will be updated throughout the year. It will contain information regarding classroom activities, pictures and announcements. There are also links that can bring you to the photo gallery where past concert pictures ready for your perusal. If you would like to borrow the picture DVD of a certain concert so that you can make prints please let me know I would be happy to loan it to you.
The blog also contains links to music games as well as a Kamehameha site that has recordings of K.S. songs so that your child can practice various mele. Please take some time to view it and let me know how I can improve it to help your family be aware of the goings on in music class.
Information regarding The Kamehameha Keiki Choir will be coming out shortly. Rehearsals will remain on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and is open to all 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students.
Our concert schedule is set for this year so please mark your calendars for these events. The Christmas Concert is on Friday night December 7th at 6 p.m. and the Spring Concert will be on Friday night April 12th at 6 p.m. Both concerts are an integral part of the music curriculum and participation is mandatory for all Kula Haʻahaʻa haumana.
All students will be issued a blue music folder with songs that they are or will be working on in class. Students in grades 2-5 are responsible for bringing their folders to music class each day. Please check you child’s schedule so that you can help remind him to bring his or her folder to school on the appropriate day. We want to avoid those “AUĒ ʻAʻOHE HANA! “ as much as possible. If your child does lose his folder (or come to class three times without it) it will need to be replaced.
Students in grades K and 1 may leave their folders at home, however, please know that music will be sent home from time to time and should be placed in the folder for practicing at home. Singing with your child is a great way to spend valuable, FUN time together.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at cydebus@ksbe.edu or at 982-0271.
I look forward to seeing you soon and having a great year with your precious children.
Cynthia Debus
Thanks to Kerry Kamisato, our awesome Middle School Tecnology teacher, our May 2012 concert, “The Music of Pauahi”is now available for your friends and family to see.
To enjoy the evening of music and dance please go to: to: http://hawaii.ksbe.edu/middle/elemspringconcert/Aloha.html
What a great way to extend the reach to the world.
Please visit the Music Picture Gallery on the right side of the blog. There you will see over 300 beautiful pictures of our concert. I hope that you enjoy reliving that evening through pictures with your family.
The Kindergarteners, 1st and 3rd graders attended a performance by the Hawaii Opera Theater on Friday September 30th. RUSALKA, by Anton Dvorak is the story of the Little Mermaid complete with a beautiful mermaid, a handsome prince, a not so nice sea sorceress and a well meaning but overbearing father. The front row seats gave the children an up close look and listen of the amazing soloists. As you will see, a picture is worth a thousand words. BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO to the wonderful opera singers and BRAVO to our keiki for their beautiful “opera manners”.
KA played this fun little song with four instruments. The claves, the hand drum, the tambourine and the triangle. We hope you enjoy it.
Our 3rd graders are studying phrases and form. In the following two videos you can see they choreographed ( in pantomime) the phrases to a fun song. This is not a polished performance and please excuse the video quality, as I am playing the teacher part with one hand and holding the camera with the other. The instrumental parts are played by class members. ( For those of you who attended the 9/10 workshop- I did not use the original instrumentation)
There are many new music sites to have fun and practice your music. Please visit a few listed on the right hand column of the BLOG. You may scroll over the name of the site to see what the link is all about. I hope that you enjoy and learn from these fun games. Please let me know what you think of them.
