Sharing what is happening within Round Rock ISD Fine Arts!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Round Rock Music
Hi there, This is Joanie Marshall and I will be your On-The-Spot reporter for our Back To School staff development day at Cedar Valley. This is my first reporting assignment, we'll see how it goes. See you all tomorrow!
10:15 - 10:35 am Service Learning Presentation Kara Hallmark, PhD, Art Teacher, Union Hill Elem
Service Learning by Kathy Berber Kay
Union Hill art club visited the Round Rock Area Serving Center and later did some art to grace the walls of their new facility in Downtown Austin. Kara showed a video from RRAC so that her students would know what the center was all about and why they were making art projects for it.
Service learning is kid-centered and the students give you the project and direction that they want to follow. Students needs to decide who their audience is. In the RRAC senario, people that could use the RRAC services were the audience and that helped the students focus on what they wanted to produce.
Several elementary music teachers have done service learning projects, singing to a variety of elderly people, sharing their music with another generation.
Kara would be happy to help you write grants for Service Learning projects. Mike@Hurewitz@roundrockisd.org is the Coordinator for RRISD Service learning and there are grants available to help with the expenses for service learning projects.
10:35-10:45 am Honor Choir and Orff Ensemble Megan Stanley, Angie Padilla, Lindsay Nelson and Neal Tipton.
The location for this year's Honors Choir will be a Title I school TBA.
The commitment for choir will be from January thru the beginning of May and is open for audition to 4th and 5th grade students.The song list will be the same as Fine Arts Festival, however 4th graders in the Honor Choir will not be able to sing in the Fine Arts Festival until they are 5th graders the following year.
The deadline for application submission is December 1st and the goal is for (2) students from each school to be accepted. Orff orchestra has the same student goals and is rehearsing at Voigt Elementary.
Members of the Austin Lyric Opera are performing an excerpt from The Magic Flute live for music educators. The Armstrong Community Music School was explained.
Opera by Night is a free opening dress rehearsal. You are not required to bring students to this first dress rehearsal. La Traviata is the first opera, followed by The Italian Girl in Algiers by Rossini.
Opera On A Stick teaches children about opera vocabulary, the mechanics of opera and there is a live performance culminating the activities.
Rick Steinburg volunteered to be the dad for the second opera excerpt.
The third excerpt was from Carmen. Three music teachers provided the rhythmic accompaniments.
Another program is Day at the Opera and is tour-based. It centers around the background mechanics of who helps to produce an opera. The day ends with an Opera excertp. It runs about 2-1/2 hours.
Yay Joanie!!
ReplyDeleteApparently my tech skills need honing. I lost my 8 am to 10 am notes for the blog. So sorry.
ReplyDelete10:15 - 10:35 am Service Learning Presentation
ReplyDeleteKara Hallmark, PhD, Art Teacher, Union Hill Elem
Service Learning by Kathy Berber Kay
Union Hill art club visited the Round Rock Area Serving Center and later did some art to grace the walls of their new facility in Downtown Austin. Kara showed a video from RRAC so that her students would know what the center was all about and why they were making art projects for it.
Service learning is kid-centered and the students give you the project and direction that they want to follow. Students needs to decide who their audience is. In the RRAC senario, people that could use the RRAC services were the audience and that helped the students focus on what they wanted to produce.
Several elementary music teachers have done service learning projects, singing to a variety of elderly people, sharing their music with another generation.
Kara would be happy to help you write grants for Service Learning projects. Mike@Hurewitz@roundrockisd.org is the Coordinator for RRISD Service learning and there are grants available to help with the expenses for service learning projects.
10:35-10:45 am Honor Choir and Orff Ensemble
ReplyDeleteMegan Stanley, Angie Padilla, Lindsay Nelson and Neal Tipton.
The location for this year's Honors Choir will be a Title I school TBA.
The commitment for choir will be from January thru the beginning of May and is open for audition to 4th and 5th grade students.The song list will be the same as Fine Arts Festival, however 4th graders in the Honor Choir will not be able to sing in the Fine Arts Festival until they are 5th graders the following year.
The deadline for application submission is December 1st and the goal is for (2) students from each school to be accepted. Orff orchestra has the same student goals and is rehearsing at Voigt Elementary.
11:00-11:30 am Austin Lyric Opera- Trunk Show
ReplyDeleteMembers of the Austin Lyric Opera are performing an excerpt from The Magic Flute live for music educators. The Armstrong Community Music School was explained.
Opera by Night is a free opening dress rehearsal. You are not required to bring students to this first dress rehearsal. La Traviata is the first opera, followed by The Italian Girl in Algiers by Rossini.
Opera On A Stick teaches children about opera vocabulary, the mechanics of opera and there is a live performance culminating the activities.
Rick Steinburg volunteered to be the dad for the second opera excerpt.
The third excerpt was from Carmen. Three music teachers provided the rhythmic accompaniments.
Another program is Day at the Opera and is tour-based. It centers around the background mechanics of who helps to produce an opera. The day ends with an Opera excertp. It runs about 2-1/2 hours.