Notes from the Music Room
Dear families,
We continue working towards a successful Spring Concert for you. I ask that those of you that look at the blogs, please help your child listen to the song El Barquito de Cascara de Nuez. I included that in the blog two weeks ago or so. I am also very excited to announce that we will have Señor Waters as our accompanist for the Spring concert! I have to say that the children are terribly excited about performing for you. I hope you can all make it to the concert.
The Kindergarten children are going to start dancing La Raspa. We have already worked on the most important part of the footwork. I am attaching a video that guides the steps but please don’t think that this is how we are going to do the dance exactly. For one I don’t call it the Mexican Hat Dance! Also, in the video they keep on saying Olé… The kids love saying olé but if there is any way that you can refrain from encouraging that, I would be most grateful. If you explore more of the videos from this channel you might find some gross motor skills for the kids that are fun and helpful to do as a family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31lF-hY9u0&t=71s
The Grade 1 students are now learning the following Venezuelan folk song:
Con real y medio
Con real y medio
Con real y. medio
Compré una pava
La pava tuvo un pavito
Tengo la pava, tengo el pavito
Siempre me queda mi real y medio.
Translation: with a dollar and a half I bought a turkey, the turkey had a baby turkey. I have a turkey and a baby turkey and I am always left with my dollar and a half.
With this song we start adding animals. The video below is quite fast, but the music is representative of Venezuelan instrumentation and the order of the animals is the one that we will be singing. Please don’t expect the children to sing it that fast… well, not yet anyway. We won’t perform it that fast either because otherwise the whole concert would be over in 15 min.
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