Wish List

Classroom teachers have a wish list that they send home to families at the beginning of each year.

In the Music Room...we only have one request...TISSUES!!!

If you have any extra boxes, please send them in to us, as all of the noses at Floral will be passing through the music room each week!! 

Our noses thank you very much!

A Brand New Year! Welcome Back!

As we begin the 2013-2014 school year, excitement is in the air! Mrs. Demarky Anderson and I are so thrilled to meet all of our new friends here at Floral and, of course, to see all of our old friends... 

We have many fun music learning activities planned for the year ahead, including the continuing story of Mr. Treble Clef!  That's right - he's back! 

We are thankful to be able to blog again this year...It is so neat to be able to communicate with you all in yet another new way. Hopefully we will reach parents and students alike. If you follow our blog, we will keep you posted with all of the wonderful things that are happening in the Music Room this year.

Have a musical year!

Musically Yours...

-Mrs. DeBlois and Mrs. Demarky Anderson

Mr. Jim Scott - in the Music Room!

For the past two years, we have been extremely lucky to have Mr. Jim Scott, a nationally touring musician, come to Floral Street to work with some of our third graders on the process of composition. He began by performing some of his own pieces for them. He then asked them for ideas and helped them narrow those ideas down. He took the ideas, added melodies and accompaniments, and then shared with the students the final products. 

Mr. Scott's friend, Jose Pienasola, was able to come in to help with the final performances. He brought along his electric bass and amazed the students with his playing, and also his "rock star face!" Together the duo played the finished pieces for the students in music class. You can hear these songs at Mr. Scott's web site: http://www.Jimscottguitar.com - look under "Jim in Schools" for the links!

We are thankful that Mr. Scott was able to share his time and talents with us again this year!!

SHOW OFF DAYS - SPRING 2013

It has truly been our pleasure to watch the Show Off Days of our Floral Street music students this year. We've had singing, dancing, instrument playing, videos, puppet shows, skits, poems, original songs, art work, posters and reports from all grade levels. Each presentation made a connection to music. It was a terrific way for us to get to know our students better. (We only get to see them for forty minutes a week, if we're lucky!) We enjoyed seeing the sharing, the great audience behavior and the mutual respect that happened in the music room. We can't wait to see more in the spring of 2014!!!

Floral Goes Green!!

What an amazing day! At Floral Street School, we celebrated Floral Goes Green today. We saw beetle presentations and heard a local author speak. We made cable television commercials and were able to view other students' work in the hallways. It was an AWESOME day about the earth, our environment and working together!

Rachel Carson said,  "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."

Thank you to all of the adults at Floral Street School, especially Kara Frankian and Gina Kelly, who made the day so very special and meaningful for us all.

"I am with my friends!"

The past two weeks, we have been celebrating how we are alike and how we are unique. We sang a song called "Amigos" which was in five languages. We realized that we have a lot of languages here at Floral Street School and we celebrated that by translating the song into those languages and making a poster for each translation. This fourth grader, Zoey Araquel, used her creativity (and her own materials, I might add!!!) to make this poster all by her self. It says "I am with my friends. You are all my good friends" in Tagalog. Great job, Zoey!

"America, America" by the Ross Class, May 2013

America, America