Mrs. Rhodan's class

This is Mrs. Rhodan's class performing the cumbia. The cumbia is a dance from Colombia. This can be found on the podcast page as well. Enjoy! Rhodan's 4th Grade Cumbia click here

4th grade Materials

The 4th grade Hispanic Heritage Month package is up. Please visit the podcast page for the materials. If there are any issues downloading please let me know. The concert will be October 17 during resource time(8:00am).

Grants

Hello,

We are now participating in two online grants. Please help support the music department by passing along this information to neighbors and social media contacts.

https://www.finditfunditflorida.com/alachua/grant/3456/

http://www.donorschoose.org/project/drums-make-the-world-go-pound/1076037/


The first grant is to help buy 5 guitars for the classes so all students may play guitar during music. The second grant is for buying hand drums that we may use at school. A grant for keyboards will be posted soon.

Sharing this information helps but if you should happen to have an old guitar or an old battery powered keyboard to donate to the school that would help too. 

Thanks for all your support.

Hispanic Heritage Month

We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage month. The students are learning about Spanish speaking countries and their geographical locations. All grade levels are  learning some songs in Spanish as well. 3rd grade and 5th grade are using their songs to help learn recorder and guitar respectively. 4th grade will have a program at the conclusion of Hispanic Heritage Month. Look for more information about the performance soon.

Edmodo Codes

Parents: we are using Edmodo.com. Some of the older students have used it before. We are using it in 3rd-5th grades only. I have created sections just for each class. If you have already set up an account, please log in to Edmodo.com and enter the code for your child's homeroom class only. Maxwell: vwpuz5 Craine: 0u0a0k Gore: wwqljs Angus: pwwrf2 Reed: 3fpcow Sorenson: 0s8do4 Talham: wa7y56 Rhodan: kp8v25 Hughes:bxlvnz Collins: p91sma Crews: sl3xdx Brockman: 5fxyta Sexton: 2w79di Douglas: 8vph97 Ferguson: r2j6an

Welcome to a New School Year

Welcome back everyone! For those of you that are new to our school, welcome. My name is Mr. Thomas. I am excited to be your music teacher here at Williams Elementary. This year we have many educational and fun things planned in music.  K-2 will work on fundamentals of singing and learning rhythms. They will also learn about some basic fundamentals of music such as high and low and fast and slow. 3rd grade will focus on playing recorder, 4th grade will focus on playing piano, and 5th grade will focus on playing guitar. We also have extracurricular activites in music. The Wildcat Chorus is open to students from grades 2nd-5th. The band is open to students in 4th and 5th grade only. We will also have Zumba for the kids in the morning before school starts as well.  I am also integrating more technology into my classroom. 3rd-5th grade students will be given the chance to interact on an educational media site called Edmodo. Students will be given questions about music or performances and will have the opportunity respond. It is similar to Facebook but it is for the classroom and will be moderated by me. We have several performances planned for the year including the Holiday Concert, Black History Celebration, and many others. I look forward to working with you and your children this year. Please feel free to stop by the music room any time if you have any questions or concerns or would like to volunteer.  Sincerely, Mr. Thomas Music Director, Williams Elementary