We are having so much fun again this year in Pre-K, K, & 1st grade music
class! Our Kindergarten classes will present a Christmas program and our
first grade classes will present our spring program.
All classes will learn the scale and will play xylophones. We will be singing
solfege and the first graders will learn about the staff and the
notes.
We are learning many songs to help us learn our school units of study and we
play instruments and learn about the elements of music!
The Kindergarteners will present their Christmas program by individual
classes on the stage in my classroom (schedule below). Parents will be
invited to attend their child's class performance. I am
located in a new trailer in a different location this year! I am close to the
Pre-K playground. The performance schedule of classes is set up to allow one
group of parents to leave before the next comes in.
Boys will be toy soldiers and girls will be dolls.
Boys will need solid white long sleeved collared shirts, dark (preferably
black) slacks, and tennis or dress shoes.(Hats and crossbands are provided.)
The girls will need to wear Christmas dresses (or skirts and blouses) and
shoes. White tights or stockings would be nice. Each girl will also need a
red bow in her hair.
We need a parent (or two) to bring a tube of red lipstick and help in the
classroom to put red circles on the cheeks of the girls and boys.
THE CLASSROOM TEACHER WILL DECIDE if the students will wear their performance
clothes to school on their assigned performance day or if they will bring
them to change into before the performance. The programs start on time and
last under 20 minutes.
You may purchase a DVD of your child’s performance for $10.00.Please see the
attached
form.
I look forward to seeing you at the program.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Tuesday Dec. 8
9:15-9:35 Joubert
10:15-10:35 Cottongim
11:15-11:35 Thornton
12:15-12:35 Tucker
1:15-1:35 Kellogg
2:15-2:35 Wilkins
Wednesday Dec. 9
9:15-9:35 Tassin
10:15-10:35 Day
11:15-11:35 Gafford
12:15-12:35 Manuel
1:15-1:35 Faircloth
2:15-2:35 Brady
Thursday Dec. 10
9:15-9:35 Knecht
10:15-10:35 Martin/Robertson
11:15-11:35 Thorne
12:15-12:35 Wells
1:15-1:35
Curry/Allen
2:15-2:35 Albarez
VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO
Mrs. Hill will make a video of your child’s Kindergarten Christmas program.
The camera will be in a fixed position on the side of the room. You may
purchase the DVD for $10.00. Please fill out this form and attach payment.
I would like to order _____DVD(s) of the 2009 K Christmas program of
____________________ class @ $10 each.
(teacher’s name)
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Parent’s name child’s
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Your phone number (this is necessary in case there is a problem with
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video or delivery of the video)
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The first grade program "A Train Ride Across America" (to be performed in the
spring) consists of 9 sections that I have written. Half of the first grade
classes will perform on one night and half on another night in May (TBA) in
the cafetorium. Students will perform a 9:30 morning(for Kindergarten
audience) and a 6:30 evening program for parents. Most costumes will be
provided. I will send home a note. Videos will be available.
FIRST GRADE PROGRAM SONGS TO LEARN:
Here is a link to a sing along song #3-The 50 States in Rhyme:
http://www.northwesternelementary.org/fiftystatesvideo.html
1 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
(Chorus) This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island.
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
1) As I was walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway.
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me. (repeat chorus)
2 LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
Texas to New York! We’re going on a train ride
And traveling across the USA!
This land is your land and this land is my land
And we’ll be singing as we go our way.
America is out there, so come on “All Aboard!”
Your ticket is waiting, the price you can afford.
So let us entertain you, let us make you smile.
Put your hat and coat on it’s time to get the show on,
We’ll travel for a while.
And if you’re real good we’ll make you feel good,
We want your spirits to climb.
So let us entertain you, We’ll have a real good time, yes, sir.
We’ll have a real good time!
3 FIFTY STATES IN RHYME
When I was small I studied U.S. geography.
The teacher said “would you stand up and list the states for me?”
My knees began a-knockin’, my words fell out all wrong.
And suddenly I burst out with this silly little song
Alabama and Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, then Connecticut
and more
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, then Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, still
thirty-five to go.
Kansas and Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, and good old Michigan
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana
Then Nebraska’s twenty-seven, number twenty-eight’s Nevada.
Next, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, and way down New Mexico.
There’s New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio.
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, now let’s see
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota Tennessee. Texas and there’s Utah,
Vermont, I’m almost through. Virginia, then there’s Washington and West
Virginia, too. Could Wisconsin be the last one, or is it forty-nine? No
Wyoming is the last state in the fifty states that rhyme! (repeat last line)
4 GET ON BOARD
(1)Get on board ev’rybody, (3x’s)
We’re going for a ride.
I hear the train a-comin’, I hear it close at hand.
So come and take a ride with us across this big wide land.
Get on board ev’rybody, (3x’s) we’re going for a ride.
(2) Hold on tight ev’rybody (3x’s) we’re goin’ for a ride.
We’re headed through the southwest,
A movin’ on this train. Our first stop will be Texas with cowboys on the
range.
Heading West ev’rybody (3x’s)
We’re comin’ to our stop.
5 YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
There’s a Yellow Rose in Texas
I’m going home to see.
She wants no other fellow, no body only me.
Oh she cried so when I left her that it nearly broke her heart and I hope that
when we meet again we never more shall part.
She’s the sweetest little lady a fellow ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew.
You may talk about your dearest girls and sing of Rosa Lee.
But the Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee.
6 DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
The stars at night are big and bright,(clap 4 Xs)
Deep in the heart of Texas
The prairie sky is wide and high,
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The sage in bloom is like perfume,
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Reminds me of the one I love,
Deep in the heart of Texas
7 HOME ON THE RANGE
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play.
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play.
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
8 CLEMENTINE
(1) In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine.
Dwelt a miner, forty niner,
And his daughter, Clementine
(Chorus)Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
(2) Drove she ducklings to the water
Ev'ry morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine.
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
9 WIZARD OF OZ
Follow the yellow brick road,
Follow the yellow brick road
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the yellow brick road.
Follow the rainbow over the stream.
Follow the fellow who follows the dream.
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the yellow brick road.
* We’re off to see the Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a wiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was.
If ever, oh ever a wiz there was,
The Wizard of Oz is one because,
Because, because. Because, because. Because!
Because of the wonderful things he does!
We’re off to see the Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
10 I’VE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD
I’ve been working on the railroad, all the livelong day
I’ve been working on the railroad,
Just to pass the time away.
Don’t you hear the whistle blowing rise up so early in the morn.
Don’t you hear the captain shouting:
“Dinah blow your horn.” Dinah won’t you blow
Dinah won’t you blow. Dinah won’t you blow your horn.
Dinah won’t you blow, Dinah won’t you blow,
Dinah won’t you blow your horn?
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah,
Someone’s in the kitchen I know-ow-ow-ow, someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah,
strumming on the old banjo Fe Fi Fiddly I O, fe fi fiddly I O-O-O-O Fe fi
fiddly-I-O, strumming on the old banjo.
11 NEW RIVER TRAIN
I’m ridin’ on that New River Train (repeat).
Same old train that brought me here gonna carry me back again.
Darlin’ you can’t love one (repeat)….
and have any fun, Darlin’ you can’t love one.
two…and still be true….three……….and still love me.
12 SHE’LL BE COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN
1. She’ll be comin’ ‘round the mountain when she comes (toot toot!) (repeat)
She’ll be comin round the mountain,
She’ll be comin’ ‘round the mountain,
She’ll be comin ‘round the mountain when she comes (toot toot!).
2. She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes (whoa Mack!)
3. We will kill the old red rooster when she comes
(hack hack!)
4. Oh we’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
(Hi babe!)
5. We’ll be singing hallelujah when she comes
(Yee Ha!)
13 DO RE MI
Do a deer a female deer, Re a drop of golden sun.
Mi a named I call myself, Fa a long long way to run.
So a needle pulling thread, La a note to follow so.
Ti,a drink with jam and bread that will bring us back to Do
14 TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME
Take me out to the ball game; take me out to the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks.
I don’t care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team.
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out
At the old ball game.
15 GOD BLESS THE USA
And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me, and I’d gladly
Stand up next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land.
God Bless the USA.
16 YOU’RE A GRAND OLD FLAG
You're a grand old flag, you’re a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of the land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
But should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag
17 YANKEE DOODLE BOY
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, a Yankee Doodle do or die.
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam,
Born on the Fourth of July.
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart,
She's my Yankee Doodle joy.
Yankee Doodle came to town just to ride the ponies.
I am that Yankee Doodle Boy.
18 AMERICA
My Country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride.
From ev’ry mountainside, let freedom ring!
19 POLLY WOLLY DOODLE
(1) Oh, I went down South for to see my Sal
Singing Polly wolly doodle all the day.
My Sal she is a spunky gal.
Singing Polly wolly doodle all the day
(CHORUS)
Fare thee well, fare thee well
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lou'siana for to see my Susyanna,
Singing Polly wolly doodle all the day
(2) Oh, my Sal, she is a maiden fair,
Singing Polly wolly doodle all the day.
With curly eyes and laughing hair
Singing Polly wolly doodle all the day, (chorus)
(3) The raccoon’s tail is ringed around
The possum’s tail is bare. The rabbit’s got no tail at all just a little bitty
bunch of hair (chorus)
20 IT’S NOT IF YOU WIN OR LOSE
Treat your friends nice when you’re playing at school.
It’s OK to play hard but always play by the rules.
It’s not if you win or lose. It’s all how you play the game.
Always be a good sport ‘cause everybody’s tryin’ the same.
21 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
You make me happy when skies are gray.
You’ll never know dear how much I love you,
Please don’t take my sunshine away.
22 WHEN THE SAINTS
Oh when the saints go marching in,
Oh when the saints go marching in.
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in.
Oh when the sun refuse to shine,
Oh when the sun refuse to shine.
O Lord I want to be in that number,
When the sun refuse to shine.
23 ONE LITTLE CAJUN
John Folse had a little crawfish (3 Xs)
One little crawfish now
Whatcha gonna do with one little crawfish (3 times)
One little crawfish now?
Jump in a pirogue, head for the bayou (3 times)
Get more crawfish now.
Tante Marie had a little Cajun (3 Xs)
One little Cajun girl
Whatcha gonna do with the one little Cajun (3 times)
One little Cajun girl?
Show her how to cook that jambalaya (3 times)
Yum Yum Cajun girl!
24 JAMBALAYA
Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me o my o,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou.
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me o my o
Son of a gun we’ll have big fun on the bayou
(Chorus)
Well, Jambalaya, and a crawfish pie, filet gumbo.
Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma chere mio.
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o.
Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou.
25 GOD BLESS AMERICA
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam.
God bless America, my home, sweet home.
God bless America, my home, sweet home.
