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Music Program Description
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Past and Future
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Music Performances
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Upper Elementary - 25 April, 2007
Patti's and Becky's classes both perform at 6:30 PM.
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Lower Elementary - 17 May, 2007
Jenny's and Sarah's classes perform at 5:30 PM.
Mary's and Jeff's classes perform at 6:30 PM.
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All performances are located in the Community Montessori Gym.
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Extra-Curricular Classes
at Community Montessori!
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Community Montessori Choir
This is a class for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade boys and girls who love to sing. We will sing
songs from Musical Theater and classic standards that senior citizens love. Then we will take
these beautiful children's voices to perform for seniors in Assisted Living facilities in our
community. The choir will meet on Mondays from
2:45 - 3:45 from February 12 through
April 30, 2007. This class will meet in the Community Montessori Music
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Percussion Ensemble
This is a class for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade boys and girls who love drumming. We will learn
African rhythms and also focus on rhythmic improvisation. We will prepare for a performance
at the Upper Elementary Music Program on April 25, 2007. This group
will meet on Thursdays from 2:45 - 3:45 from
March 1, 2007 through April 19, 2007. Please
also reserve Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:30 PM. This class will meet
in the Community Montessori Music Room.
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Music Program
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Music at Community Montessori is influenced by the Orff-Schulwerk process. The
"Orff" model blends so well with the Montessori philosophy since it encourages
a hands-on approach to creativity. It also emphasizes the experience of the music first,
before it is defined on a conscious level. Schulwerk means schooling in music through
activity and creativity. Orff is the last name of a composer, Carl Orff, who together
with Gunild Keetman, created the material and ideas to use as models for teachers all
over the world. The "volumes", as they are referred to by music teachers,
are now translated into 18 languages. Presently, there are over 10,000 teachers in the
United States who use the Orff process as the vehicle to bring music to children.
Students are constantly active using poems, rhymes, games, songs and dances as their mode
of expression. All these elements may be accompanied by drums, and various other non-melodic
percussion and/or the "instrumentarium" of melodic percussion: xylophones,
metallophones and glockenspiels.
Eleanor Farjeon, the music teacher at Community Montessori is certified in three levels of
Orff-Schulwerk in addition to having Creative Dance, African Drumming, Kodaly training and
Bachelors & Masters degrees in Music Education.
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