Beth Simms

General Music teacher in the Lake Orion Community Schools district.

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Ramadan Mumbarak to those who celebrate! Today we learned about Ramadan and did a “color by note” activity. @Carpenter_LO

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A HUGE “thank you” to the Home Depot #2743 on Lapeer Road for donating 30 buckets to our school for bucket drumming. We are having a lot of fun!! @Carpenter_LO

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Third graders have been sharing their spoons compositions this week. Love seeing their creativity in action! @Carpenter_LO

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Mrs. Ventimiglia’s K students showing the pattern of 2 in the song “Stinky Pirates” through movement and singing. Arrr! @StadiumDriveLO

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Students in Mrs Sloan’s 2nd grade class learned about Italian music and dancing traditions in celebration of the MIRM theme, “Passport to Learning.” Here is a video clip of the class learning how to do the dance the tarantella. @StadiumDriveLO

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K students creating their own melody’s with the iPads after learning about high and low sounds in music. @Carpenter_LO

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Having fun learning how to draw a treble clef with our new LED tablets today! @StadiumDriveLO

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Students in all classes this month have been learning about the Lunar New Year and all the traditions that goes along with the holiday. @Carpenter_LO

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A HUGE “thank you” to @LO_EDFoundation for helping to provide materials for centers in my music classroom though their Fall grant. The student are having a great time!

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Second Grade students created their own ostinato pattern to accompany the song “Hot Chocolate.” We then performed the song with the ostinato. @Carpenter_LO

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The joy of “Jingle Bells” day in DK! 🔔🔔🔔 @Carpenter_LO

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Students in 3rd and 4th grades just wrapped up their verse and refrain songwriting unit. Students learned about the framework of a song and then were given the task to write their own rap song in AB form. @Carpenter_LO

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Second grade learned about Dia De Los Muertos and then played a skeleton bones to the chorus of the song “Las Calaveras.”

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First grade students just wrapped up a unit on meter. We learned about different meters in music and used movement as a way to identify them. Here is Mrs. Charles class performing the song “I Have a Dog With a Tail.” @Carpenter_LO

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Care Bear Stare! So lucky to be part of the Carpenter Staff! Happy Halloween! @Carpenter_LO

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Had a great time at Unicorn Club this morning! @Carpenter_LO

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Kindergarten students have been learning about their 4 voices and how we use them. This week, we are using our singing voices to sing a song! 🦆🦆🦆@Carpenter_LO

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Had a blast at Pokémon GAP Club this morning with some very enthusiastic collectors today! @Carpenter_LO

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Second grade listened to the story “A Song of Frutas” and made their own fruit song creations using the frutas in the story. They then got to shake their newly created rhythm with the Frutas egg shakers!

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Kindergarten students using the large stretchy band to show the pulse of the music! @Carpenter_LO