Winter Concert 2016
4th Grade chorus singing the National Anthem!
Listen as the 4th grade sing Senua De Dende, a folk song from Ghana! The students created the movement and really enjoyed singing in a two part round!
Watch as the students perform Moon Cry by Roger Sams. Students created movement in class, and designed the form! Way to go 4th grade!
Watch as the students perform Moon Cry by Roger Sams. Students created movement in class, and designed the form! Way to go 4th grade!
Spring Concert 2016
Check out the fourth grade band playing Au Clair De La Lune. This was one of the student selected pieces for our band concert. Students really enjoyed this French folk song and some of them composed their own words to accompany the tune!
Gaudeamus is a Latin piece that talks about celebrating and enjoying time with your loved ones. Students really connected with this upbeat piece full of body percussion and dynamic phrasing. Through this piece, fourth graders learned how to sing a crescendo, decrescendo, blending, and about musical phrasing. In learning this piece, the chorus discussed and evaluated which types of dynamics to use in what phrase.
Listen to our multi-cultural piece Sansa Kroma! This is a folk song from Africa that talks about a little orphan eagle who leaves his nest in search of new friends. This song symbolized our fourth graders leaving Big Flats Elementary to head off to the Intermediate School.
Listen as the fourth grades sing a round in three-part harmony!
Winter Concert 2015
Greg Gilpin's I See a Star, is a beautiful piece of music that talks about hope and dreams in humanity. The fourth grade really connected with this piece and came up with thier on choreography! Students broke into groups and created thier own movment and then performed it for the chorus. The ensemble chose thier favorite group to represent the chorus in our winter concert! Watch as these fourth graders light up the stage with hope in I See a Star.
For our Winter 2015 concert, the fourth graders collected over two hundred canned goods for the local food pantry in support of the Backpack Program.
For the 2014 Winter concert, the fourth grade collected over 100 toys for the Toys for Tots program.
Way to go Big Flats Elementary!