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Welcome
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Play Me a Story
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Special thanks to the following who funded the
purchase of most of the instruments and materials
used tonight Partners In Education Bangert
PTO Generous parent donations
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Special thanks to Garber Methodist Church who
loaned instruments for this evenings
performance.
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Please make sure cell phones and pagers are
turned off before we begin our show.
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We want you to enjoy our whole show, so please do
not leave the cafeteria until the show is over.
All the children have worked hard and deserve our
full attention. If you have an emergency or need
to step out with your infant, please use the
doors in the back.
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Please supervise toddlers. We dont want anyone
to get lost or stepped on.
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Thank you to all the staff and faculty who have
been so helpful and supportive of the show
tonight.
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Thanks to Hilda Whitney, our librarian, who
helped with the books and the show this evening.
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Thanks to Marsha Rogers our Art Teacher who made
the animal masks for the 2nd graders.
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Thanks to my friend, colleague, and master Music
teacher, Artie Almeida, author of Mallet Madness.
She teaches at Bear Lake Elementary school in
Apopka, Florida. Music teachers across the US
are eternally indebted to her for her
brilliant teaching ideas and support.
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Thank you to the parent volunteers who give so
generously of their time and resources.
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check out the Music at Bangert web
site http//bangertmusic.tripod. com/musicatbang
ert/
You can also Google Music at Bangert to find
it
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Thank you for supporting your childs Music
Education.
Meredith Harley Inserra Music Educator Bachelor
of Music, Music Education UNC-Greensboro Master
of Music, Music Education ECU-Greenville Postgra
duate research, Ph.D. (A.B.D.) Univ. of
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Welcome
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Play Me a Story
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Tonights show integrates Reading and Music.
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In addition to verbal and reading skills, this
project also focuses on several Music skills 1-
demonstrate a steady beat 2- use the singing
voice 3- perform rhythm patterns 4- identify and
play pitched and unpitched
instruments 5- follow the cues of a conductor 6-
improvise melodies and rhythms
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In addition to verbal and reading skills, this
project also focuses on several Music skills
7- compose 8- demonstrate melody contour and
direction 9- read music notation 10- use
music to accompany a story 11- respond to music
with movement
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In addition to verbal and reading skills, this
project also focuses on several Music
skills 12- show how music relates to
other parts of the curriculum 13- use appropriate
technique and posture when playing
instruments 14- evaluate and show respect for the
efforts of others
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Students of the arts learn to think creatively
and to solve problems by imagining various
solutions, rejecting outdated rules and
assumptions. Questions about the arts do not
have only one right answer.
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Music is designated a core academic subject in
the 'No Child Left Behind Act.' No Child Left
Behind Act of 2002, Title IX, Part A, Sec. 9101
(11)
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A study of the arts provides children with an
internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches
them to be empathetic towards the people of these
cultures. This development of compassion and
empathy provides a bridge across cultural chasms
that leads to respect of other races at an early
age.
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Through music study, students learn the value of
sustained effort to achieve excellence and the
concrete rewards of hard work.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be
a musician. I often think in music. I live my
daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of
music. ... I get most joy in life out of
music. Albert Einstein
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Music causes us to think eloquently. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Music is what feelings sound like. anonymous
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Song is, after all, nothing more or less than
the soundtrack for the human experience.
Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino
Süllwold
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the
soul for the education of its virtue. Plato
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and
philosophy....
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If a child hears fine music from the day of his
birth, and learns to play it himself, he develops
sensitivity, discipline, and endurance. He gets a
beautiful heart. Shinichi Suzuki
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What we play is life. Louis Armstrong