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Special thanks to the following who funded the purchase of most of the instruments and materials used tonight: Partners In Education Bangert PTO Generous parent donations

Special thanks to Garber Methodist Church who loaned instruments for this evening’s performance.

Please make sure cell phones and pagers are turned off before we begin our show.

We want you to enjoy our whole show, so please do not leave the cafeteria until the show is over. All the children have worked hard and deserve our full attention. If you have an emergency or need to step out with your infant, please use the doors in the back.

Please supervise toddlers. We don’t want anyone to get lost or stepped on.

Thank you to all the staff and faculty who have been so helpful and supportive of the show tonight.

Thanks to Hilda Whitney, our librarian, who helped with the books and the show this evening.

Thanks to Marsha Rogers our Art Teacher who made the animal masks for the 2 nd graders.

Thanks to my friend, colleague, and master Music teacher, Artie Almeida, author of Mallet Madness. She teaches at Bear Lake Elementary school in Apopka, Florida. Music teachers across the US are eternally indebted to her for her brilliant teaching ideas and support.

Thank you to the parent volunteers who give so generously of their time and resources.

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Thank you for supporting your child’s Music Education. Meredith Harley Inserra Music Educator Bachelor of Music, Music Education – UNC-Greensboro Master of Music, Music Education – ECU-Greenville Postgraduate research, Ph.D. (A.B.D.) – Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland

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Tonight’s show integrates ReadingMusic Reading and Music.

In addition to verbal and reading skills, this project also focuses on several Music skills: 1- demonstrate a steady beat 2- use the singing voice 3- perform rhythm patterns 4- identify and play pitched and unpitched instruments unpitched instruments 5- follow the cues of a conductor 6- improvise melodies and rhythms

In addition to verbal and reading skills, this project also focuses on several Music skills: 7- compose 7- compose 8- demonstrate melody contour and 8- demonstrate melody contour and direction direction 9- read music notation 9- read music notation 10- use music to accompany a story 11- respond to music with movement

In addition to verbal and reading skills, this project also focuses on several Music skills: 12- show how music relates to other parts of the curriculum to other parts of the curriculum 13- use appropriate technique and posture when playing instruments posture when playing instruments 14- evaluate and show respect for the efforts of others efforts of others

Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.

Music is designated a core academic subject in the 'No Child Left Behind Act.' No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Title IX, Part A, Sec (11)

A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy… provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age.

Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I get most joy in life out of music.” ~Albert Einstein~ ~Albert Einstein~

“ Music causes us to think eloquently.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Music is what feelings sound like.” ~anonymous~

“Song is, after all, nothing more or less than the soundtrack for the human experience.” ~Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino Süllwold ~

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education for the education of its virtue.” ~Plato~

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy....” ~Ludwig van Beethoven~

“If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth, and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline, and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart.” ~Shinichi Suzuki~

“What we play is life.” ~Louis Armstrong~