Tara Douglas

Music Teacher at Guthrie Public School. #LiveLaughLearn

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic an amazing primary concert this week! Holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa and African Noel were celebrated through music. Thanks to everyone who came and helped out 🙏🏻 @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic great performance today by @sultansofstring in our gym! So much diverse music from around the world was shared creating awareness and lots of student engagement 🌎 @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ 👑 body percussion routine in grade 5. Teamwork, precision and counting! @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic Halloween is so much fun in the music room! A favourite of mine is rapping ‘Bedtime at the Swamp’ and having students play a high and low instrument on the chorus reinforcing sixteenth note rhythms 🎶 👻@SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic gr. 2’s used some spooky Halloween pieces to create 4 beat rhythms then with their partner they created 8 different rhythms for their spiders legs 🕷️ @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic gr. 3 highlight of the week—> playing boomwhackers and non-pitch percussion to ‘The Skeleton Dance’ play along!! @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools 🎃

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic Gr. 2’s put body percussion and instruments to a song and inserted it after every page in ‘Room on the Broom’. @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools 🧙‍♀️ 🧹

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic gr. 3’s have been loving ‘Pass the Witch’s Broomstick’ this week in the music room! They have been learning 6/8 time and passing on the beat @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Pamela @PamleePlee]

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month @GuthriePublic
Thanks to our talented students & music teacher @Tarateach87
#HispanicHeritageMonth @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic happy to welcome M. John Kennedy from Prologue Performing Arts today to share his storytelling of 4 Robert Munsch books! @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Simcoe County District School Board @SCDSB_Schools]

These Gr. 2’s are On Top of the World! #SCDSBmusic 🎶

[Simcoe County District School Board @SCDSB_Schools]

Sounding good already! A great beginning to their 🎶 journey this year!

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic grade 2’s reviewed ta and titi rhythms and differentiated between the verse and chorus in Imagine Dragons song, ‘On Top of the World’🐉 @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic Imagine Dragons 🐉 cup passing routine in grade 6 today! Way to go ☺️ @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools #nonpitchedpercussion

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

Music is Bach @GuthriePublic @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools #preludeinC

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic AAPI month continues in the music room with a gr. 3 favourite. The Maouri indigenous people of New Zealand’s traditional stick routine to E Papa Waiari, modified to our level. We are working up to the throws! @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic for Asian American and Pacific Islanders month, the Gr. 8’s worked on completing a collaborative wall mural of composer and performer Yo Yo Ma. @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@lizgrummett @GuthriePublic @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools Thank you @lizgrummett

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic Gr.6’s are learning piano, uke and xylo chords to Avicii’s hit, ‘Wake Me Up’ over the next few weeks. Ss blew me away this morning with their progress @SCDSBmusic @SCDSB_Schools 🎹

[Tara Douglas @Tarateach87]

@GuthriePublic Gr. 2’s finished up the B section to our ‘Not a Box’ series of lessons. This section has 4 individual parts played at the same time. Everyone learned each part and rotated through each instrument. Here is the A & B section @GuthriePublic @SCDSB_Schools