Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️

K-4 Music Teacher at Holliday Elementary School

[Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️ @HESMrsArd]

Take the time and watch your own 4th Grade Eagles put a jingle in your heart this Christmas season with their show “Dashing Through the Show: America’s Got Talent-Holiday Edition”!

They did fantastic last night!

@HollidayISD

Link to watch: https://t.co/9T3CY7QHQN

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Learning about Strong and Weak Beats in Meters of 2, 3, and 4! @HollidayISD

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Beginning of year lessons!
2nd Grade

Learning to sing part of a song in our head with only singing/playing on our specific letter for the song Bingo. Lots of fun and we got to play instruments! @HollidayISD

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Beginning of Year Lessons!
4th Grade
Using a folk song from Israel, the students identified the musical form ABB & acted it out first with scarves & then with kickballs. We identified note values by the motions for quarter notes & whole notes. @HollidayISD

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End of year fun!! @HollidayISD

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Fun learning about the number of sounds in beats and rhythms! @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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Identifying rhythms is so much more fun when you get to act like a turkey and use scooters!

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@HollidayISD @lexilynnlaw @msutherland03

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My 4th graders are hard at work coming to school early to practice their handbell part in our “You Better Watch Out”Christmas Musical!
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@HollidayISD @lexilynnlaw @msutherland03

[Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️ @HESMrsArd]

Music Teacher Win!!!

Bus driver sent me a video of my students singing our favorite patriotic song!

Oh, I Love America!!
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[Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️ @HESMrsArd]

We keep the beat to music in many ways even with our 👀 @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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Pumpkin Bones search is on!! He hid his picture all over the school! @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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[Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️ @HESMrsArd]

Teaching musical form is always more fun with a parachute, but extremely more fun with the song “Pumpkin Bones.” @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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1st Graders showing how notes go higher and lower in the song “Apple Tree” with a fun stretchy band! @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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Kindergarten telling the story of the Five Little Pumpkins with instruments! @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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2nd grade working as a group to play their rhythms together. @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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1st Grade went on Pumpkin Rhythm hunt this week to learn how to copy rhythms down on their paper in the correct order. Then they read the rhythms and clapped them out. @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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Students learning about strong (red) and weak (different color) beats in songs with meters of 2, 3, and 4. They are showing the meter of the song with the bears. @HollidayISD @msutherland03 @lexilynnlaw

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Happy October Everyone!!!

My 3rd graders played the rhythm of one of our favorite pumpkin songs.

#PumpkinBones

@HollidayISD
@EaglesatHES

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[Mrs. Ard 🦅🎵❤️ @HESMrsArd]

Thankful to Lowe’s of Wichita Falls for 25 buckets so we can have fun learning rhythms with bucket drumming!!! @HollidayISD @EaglesatHES

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Lots of music terms are being taught this week in 3rd grade music with the book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”.

Measures, notes, rhythms, crescendo, decrescendo, and percussion group categories!!

@HollidayISD @EaglesatHES
@ArtieAlmeida