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Vocal Music

Janet Armstead

What a beautiful fall season!  Sing a song about it!   Music teaches you to read, sing, play an instrument, learn  foreign languages, decode fractions, pattern, and much more - music stretches your brain and helps you learn! About me:  This will be my 17th year at St. George Elementary and 19th year in the Rock Creek School District. I've taught 39 years in KS public schools at all levels. My husband and I have two grown & married children, three beautiful grandchildren and one on the way!    (Janet is the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Elementary Music Teacher of the Year for NC District of Kansas Music Educators, Teacher of the Month from Radio Station Q103 in April 2010)   Music Memory-2012   We will be beginning our tenth year of participating in this great music curriculum!  Music Memory is a study of 16 pieces of music from Renaissance to 20th Century.  We have brought home 1st or 2nd place plaques from the Kansas State Music Memory Competition eight of those nine years.  Seven of those years, we brought home a plaque for both 3/4th and 5/6th teams!   Rodeo:  Hoe-down by Aaron Copeland Four Sketches: "In Autumn" by Beach Eine Kleine Nachtmusick: 1st Move. Mozart Requiem: "Pie Jesu" by Webber Symphony 1997 "Jubilation" by Dun Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach Trepak from the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky

5th/6th Quiz Study Guide

Study Guide
Music of the Civil War

• The word civil comes from the Latin word, civis which means citizen.  Therefore, a civil war means the war between citizens of the same country.
• The Civil War in America started in 1861 and ended in 1865.
• The anti-slavery people lived in the North and were called Yankees – they were the Union.
• The pro-slavery people lived in the South and were called rebels – they were the Confederate States of America.
• The nickname “Dixie” for the South probably came from
• The name Mason-Dixon line-Dixon was the surveyor, and the line basically separated the northern states from the southern states.
•  The name of the ten dollar bill in Louisiana which was a “dix” which is ten in the French language.  
• Dixie Land was the battle song for the South.  It was written by Dan Emmett who was a Northern performer who put on “black-face” to sing it on stage.
• The Battle Cry of Freedom was the battle song for the North.
• Goober Peas are peanuts!

Honor Choir sings at the Veteran's Program

Kindergarten "March Around the Room" at the Veteran's Program