Remember when we played the music “Style Dials” game? One of the musical styles on the game board was the “blues.” Chicago, which is close to where Mrs. Vrotny lives, is famous for the blues music style.
Here is an eight year old prodigy playing the blues. You might want to look up the song “Sweet Home Chicago”, and listen to it. It’s a very famous blues song.

Boys and girls have you ever heard a six year old play the piano like this?! In this video it says that Emily played for the president at age six. Mozart played for the king and queen at age six; the same age as this little girl. Mozart wrote music just like Emily does, and is recognized as one of the most famous composers who ever lived . Mozart was known as a child prodigy in music. People say Emily is a prodigy like Mozart was. A prodigy is someone who is a highly talented child.

You might want to look up Mozart on Google to find out more about him, when he lived, and what he looked like. If you have comments you’d like to share about the video, I will post them for others to read.

Would you like to have the whole school learn a song that you helped write? Would you like to have your name on the school song forever? Would you like to become a famous student at Grass Lake?   Then you might want to scroll down to find the music. Here you will find more directions about how to do it.

Song contest rules:

All students in grades 2-8 are eligible

Teachers will vote for the best songwriter

You can only enter once

You can bring your words to the first music class in the Fall.

The winner or winners will have their name on the school song forever. The whole school will learn your song, and the school song will be performed throughout the new school year, and for years to come.

I am excited to see what ideas you come up with!  You can even write the words with a friend if you want.

Boys and girls here are some fun music sites you might want to look up on rainy days. There are music games, instructions for how to build your own musical instruments, instrument facts, writing your own music and more. Just click on a title below.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids

Arthur or Lomax the Hound of Music

Be a Composer

PBS Jazz Kids

The first graders are playing steady beat, upward and downward direction, and playing a singing game with the rhyme Wee Willie Winkie.
We have also been writing our own lyrics for the song “Down By the Bay.” Have your child sing his or her verse that he or she made up.

Third and fourth grade students and parents had fun learning this steady beat stick passing game. The stick passing became faster and faster and we did it without dropping a stick!

Here is another dance from dance night with the third and fourth grade students and their parents!

The third and fourth graders danced as the early American pioneers did for entertainment years ago before the days of television, video games, and computers. Students learned the dances in music class and taught their parents some of the moves ahead of time. The early pioneers didn’t have much to bring over, but they did have their traditions of music and dance. Some of the dances learned were: Sasha, Y’an Pettit, Line Dance, Yesh, and a stick passing game from Sweden.

Great job dancing this difficult Spanish dance fourth and fifth grade! Here you can see the 4th and 5th grade dancing a 16th and 17th century court dance from Spain complete with real music from Spain.  For fun, see the same dance below with different music.

Grass Lake students will love hearing this group of talented fifth grade students sing this Fleetwood Mac song.