Music
I am pleased to be teaching music at St. Ignatius. I earned a BA in Jazz Guitar Performance from the University of North Florida. I have over seven years' experience teaching Music in a Catholic school, leading and accompanying children's choirs, and directing Junior High musicals. I have taught private and group guitar lessons for twelve years, and I have been accompanying Masses since I was in Junior High. I enjoy performing in pit bands for community and professional musical theater productions as well as writing, recording, and performing pop music with several bands. I intend to help our students become comfortable with their voices in private and public, read and write the language of music, and build a lifetime relationship with music.
Kindergarten, First, and Second
Music classes will meet three times per week for thirty minutes.
Students will sing and move to songs that illustrate basic musical concepts. Rhythm instruments will be added as accompaniment to outline a steady beat and simple rhythms. Students will dramatize many songs and learn to be good audience members for their peers.
Third, Fourth, and Fifth
Third Grade will meet for Music class three times a week for thirty minutes. Fourth and Fifth Grades will meet twice a week for forty five minutes. On Tuesdays the Fourth grade will be divided into two groups, beginning band and recorder class. Recorder players will rehearse progressively more difficult songs to earn belts in the Recorder Karate program.
In Music class students will listen to and perform songs that illustrate more advanced musical concepts. Students will be introduced to harmony singing and playing in a rhythm ensemble. Reading and writing music will be practiced with real-life musical examples. Students will listen to, watch, and participate in musical theater.
Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth
Students in the Junior High grades have Music twice a week for forty five minutes. The classes will be divided into two groups, African Drumming and General Music.
In General Music class, students will read and write music on paper and on computers. Students apply musical concepts to popular songs and study different aspects of music technology, musical theater, and pop/rock instruments.
All classes participate in our monthly Masses, Christmas Program and Spring Concert.
