Saturday, September 20, 2025

Music Around the World--A Christmas Edition--Week 2--Africa

    We had so much fun in our Music Around the World Class on Friday! We began our morning by reviewing our songs from last week. Ask your child to sing "Mele Kalikimaka" and "Roo, Roo the Kangaroo" for you! We are really working hard to learn the words for these two songs.  After a quick review, we jumped into learning all about our new country of the day--Africa!


We were introduced to some special places from Africa and learned about animals and instruments that are unique to this country. Then, we were in for a fabulous treat--a visit from a real musician, Mr. Mark! Mr. Mark taught us about some of Africa's favorite instruments--drums! He played several different types of drums for us. We loved them all! Then, we enjoyed some traditional African music from the African Children's Choir. We were so inspired by these musical experiences that we decided to create our own African instruments--drums, shakers, and tamborines. Finally, we learned our own rousing rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" complete with African drums, shakers, and tamborines! Here is a show of our morning! Check it out and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below. We have also included some pictures from another great day! We hope that you enjoy them! Today was so much fun! We can't wait until next week! :)









Friday, September 19, 2025

Friends of Ten

   This week in math we studied about the numerals that when added together equal ten. We enjoyed watching an interesting video about the "Friends of Ten" and creating a "Friends of Ten" anchor chart to record what we had learned. Then, we created an exciting art project where we had to illustrate our own friends of ten and use them to make a beautiful rainbow. Check out these sweet pictures from our fun lesson below. Enjoy!










Community Helpers: Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?

      We have been studying about our community helpers. First, we began our project based learning unit with an opportunity to meet some of our community helpers and learn about their jobs. Check out our pictures and video of our special guests below! 

Firefighter Visit









Miss Todd's Kindergarten Class


Dr. Mendoza's Kindergarten Class


Miss Donjuan's Kindergarten Class






Firetruck Art







Police Officer Belts









Music Around the World--A Christmas Edition--Week 1--Australia

    Welcome to our Music Around the World STEAMSchool class--A Christmas Edition! I am so very excited that your child is joining me in this journey as we travel around the world exploring different countries and their unique music. I have two loves in life—music and children— so I could not be more thrilled to share this experience together with your child. We are going to learn to play instruments and sing songs from different countries. Then, we will share our music with you all at our Music Around the World Celebration Night at the end of our study. It is sure to be a night that you will not want to miss! Thank you again for allowing me the privilege to work with your child. I can not wait to share this experience together!


We began our musical tour around the world today by talking about the universal language of music and how it can touch all hearts and help all people. Then, we enjoyed singing "Mele Kalikimaka" together before flying around the world to Australia. 



The land down under had a lot to offer us! We learned about everything from koala bears to kangaroos and explored the top ten places to visit in Australia on a kids travel website. We were also introduced to two of Australia's favorite instruments--bilmas and digeridoos. After listening to one of Australia's traditional songs featuring these instruments, we made our very own bilmas and digeridoos. Boy were they cool too! Finally, we began learning the Australian Christmas song that we are going to perform, Roo Roo the Kangaroo. It is a silly song that will make you giggle and laugh, while allowing you to soak up the unique sounds of the digeridoos and the bilmas. Here is a show of our first day together. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our first week in Music Around the World!