We are starting out busily working on music skills of all kinds as the New Year begins.  The Christmas Program gave us great energy and much pride, but now we are catching up on other lessons.  Each grade is working on rhythms appropriate to their age; reading them, writing them and using rhythms in improvisations.  The kinders are studying opposites in music; fast and slow, high and low, loud and soft.  First graders are learning to read So and Mi on the music staff, while second graders are reading and writing So, Mi and La.  Third graders are studying the "Form" of music, using Introduction, Interlude and Coda.  The fourth graders are learning to sing and play instruments in "canon" and will also add two new notes to their recorder playing repertoire.  The fifth graders are beginning their study of Instruments of the Orchestra.  It is a very busy season - making music!!