This week in our general music classes the 1st graders are beating back the rain with an Orff instrumental piece by Doug Goodkin "Rain, Rain, Go Away". Both the 3rd and 4th graders are working on the tongue twister Peter Piper. While 3rd grades are working hard to play the piece, the 4th graders are wrapping their heads around transposing the song into 3 different keys. Band students this week are playing pages 9 & 10 in their books. Violins will be working out the last 2 variations of Twinkle, Twinkle. I'll be seeing Recorder Club on Thursday morning and the wonderful Boomin Beats will meet for the second time this Friday after school. In Tech classes the 5th graders are animating a scene from their Explorer's lives, while 4th graders are putting a together a short animation on the current wacky Portland weather.
