Welcome!

Welcome to the Music Room.

My name is Ms. Goertzen and I am excited for the 2018-2019 year. In the Music Room, the students will experience singing, playing instruments, speaking in rhythm, music listening, movement, creating, improvisation and performing. These are all aspects of the Orff process, a method of teaching music to elementary students. In the Music Room, we strive to grow as music makers in active participation where all students are included!

Welcome to the Music Blog.

This blog is a place where we can celebrate our K-5 Music program with news about what we are learning and information on upcoming performances. Please feel free to stop by and leave a comment or submit your email address (top right corner) and you will receive a message indicating that new information has been added.

To navigate the blog, you will notice three tabs at the top of the page:

Home/Crestview Singers/Recorder Karate.

Home is where you already are. If you click on the Crestview Singers or Recorder Karate tab, it will take you to a separate blog with that particular information. Once you are in the Crestview Singers or Recorder Karate blog and you want to get back, click on Main Blog and you will be back where you started.

The Crestview Singers blog will have any information regarding our performances and dates as well as lyrics to the songs we are learning. Accompaniments and YouTube videos of the songs will also be posted if available.

The Recorder Karate blog is a helpful tool for the Recorder Club students if they wish to practice at home. In the Recorder Club, students are working towards ten coloured belts of yarn to add to the bottom of their recorders. Each belt song increases in difficulty with more and more notes and rhythms added. The "coloured belt" songs are posted as well as an accompaniment clip they can play along with. On the right hand side of the page, each belt is listed if the students wish to locate their song quickly. A recorder fingering chart is also located here.

Periodically you will find photos of what is happening in the Music Room on Instagram (@crestviewmusicroom). If you have not signed the Media Release form, don't worry, your child will not be in the picture!

I am looking forward to another fantastic year of making music together!

Musically yours,

Ms. Goertzen  

 

Divisional Children's Choir

Divisional Children’s Choir

Auditions for current Grade 4 and 5 students

This upcoming season, the Children’s Choir is open to students who will be in Grades 5 and 6 in the 2018-2019 school year. The Children’s Choir is an enrichment group that performs at a high level. Membership in this choir gives children the opportunity to develop excellent choral singing skills and to meet with other talented musicians from throughout the school division.  In addition to having fun singing together, this choir also works very hard.  Since we only meet once a week and our singers are from different schools, regular attendance at all practices and performances is required.  Extra practices will not be scheduled.  

Weekly rehearsals will be held on Wednesdays from 4:15 until 5:45 p.m., beginning on Wednesday, September 5^th and ending in mid-May, 2019.  The location of the practices will be Heritage School. A three-day choir camp has been planned for September 21 – September 22 at Camp Assiniboia, just west of Winnipeg.  This camp experience allows the choir to learn many of the songs for the year, get to know one another and bond as a choir. Students must be attending a school in the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, and must also be members of their school choirs, sharing their exemplary choral skills and providing leadership in their school choral programs.  They must also be willing to commit to participation for the entire season, ending in mid-May, and make every effort to attend all performances.

If you are interested in receiving an audition time for the Divisional Children’s Choir, please contact Ms. Goertzen to set up a Crestview practice time during a Monday or Wednesday lunch hour in the music room.

The criteria that Ms. Goertzen is looking for in the auditions are:

1. Musical talent (in-tune singing,)/ Preparation

2. Expression / Voice projection

3. Following directions

4. Stage presence / Confidence

5. Excellent behaviour / Student leader

6. Parental commitment

For the practice audition with Ms. Goertzen, have your parent help you learn:

1. O Canada 

2. Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Frere Jacques or To Stop the Train. They will be required to sing this is in a canon with me during their audition. They will be marked on tuning, voice quality, projection and expression. 

3. No preparation is necessary for the rest of the audition, which involves singing and/or clapping various phrases and scales to assess pitch sense and rhythm.  

If you are selected from Crestview, parents must do the following:

1. Fill out the application form given to you by Ms. Goertzen and bring it to your audition.

2. Sign up for an audition time on line. Link is on the letter sent home.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at agoertzen@sjsd.net.