Our final Song of the Month for this year is WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD. The kids have been having a great time singing it and in the next few weeks we’re planning on recording our first ever Music Video. We will definitely post it to the website so keep your eyes peeled. In the meantime, click HERE for the song lyrics.

This month we have been having a great time singing and recording THE FUR RENDEZVOUS SONG. Now it’s time for the kids from Ms. Emde and Ms. Circle’s classes to go into the computer lab and mix the tracks together in Garageband! Below you see some of the rough cuts we have so far. There’s a guitar track, and two different takes of Mrs. Goetchius‘ class singing the 1st verse. One take is definitely better than the other. You’ll have to listen to them both to find out why. Click the play button to listen, then press the CONTROL key while you click the title and choose “Download Linked File As” to download the track.

Guitar Track

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Verse Take 1

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Verse Take 2

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Our new Song of the Month is…………… ONE HORSE OPEN SLEIGH. At least that’s what James Pierpoint called it back in 1857. Nowadays people only sing the first verse / chorus and everybody calls it Jingle Bells. Click HERE to see the words to all four verses and check back soon to hear the version we’ll be recording next week.

The kids did a great job recording and after finally mixing it all together below is our version of Yellow Submarine! Special thanks go out to Emariea, Eli, Mahali, and Mary for singing the verses. Click the play button to hear it or click HERE to see the lyrics.

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Our first Song of the Month this year is Yellow Submarine! We will be singing and playing it all month long and we’ll even record our own version and post it here at the end of the month. In the meantime, click HERE to see the lryics.

The Song of the Month for April was The Fox and the kids did a great job recording all the parts for it. I just finished mixing it together and I think this might be the best one we’ve done all year. Jada did the ukulele part and the singing is the result of the efforts of many of our fine young artists. The backup singing was done by Mrs. Goetchius’ class, with Mrs. Julain’s class doing harmony. And we recorded solos from six kids for the verses. Riley sang the 1st verse, Gussie sang the 2nd, Micheal sang the 3rd, Alina sang the 4th, Greg sang the 5th, and Serena sang the last verse. Click HERE for lyrics, and click the player below to listen to the finished product.

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This month the 6th graders are in charge of mixing together the Song of the Month! We have a few tracks recorded so far and by the end of the month we should be posting the different versions they create. In the meantime you can click HERE for lyrics and you can click a links below to listen to some of the raw recordings. If you listen closely you can tell that some turned out better than others.

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Here’s our recording of the Song of the Month. Last week we recorded every class playing something. There’s cowbells, drums, tambourines, and the vocals are split up between Emde, Geotchius, and Crandall. Click the play button below to listen, or click the picture to sing along with the lyrics. Enjoy.

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Here's Pete

Before the Winter Break we bid a fond farewell to Haydn, and last week Our New Favorite Composer was revealed to be……wait for it……PETE SEEGER!!!!!

He will be our first ever banjo playing composer! We even chose his song, “If I Had a Hammer“, to be our Song of the Month. Click here to go to a page where you can sing along with the lyrics.