Gator's Got Talent

Come Audition for GSA's first ever Talent Show!

Auditions are Feb 11th: 12-4pm

We hope to see you there!

Choir Club

Choir club students are working on our performance piece for our school's first talent show "Gator Idol!"

They are working on "It's a Fine Day". Below are the lyrics to the song. Students should have a hard copy of the sheet music or lyric sheet as well. Students can find an audio recording of the song below for practice.

I can't wait to see these student's shine at the talent show!

-Mrs. Caughlan


Practice Track: Both Parts Acapella

Practice Track: Part 2 only, with instrument accompaniment

Song Excerpt: Whole Group

Part 1: Mitchell, Ava, Freya, Elias, Layla, Andrew, Lauren, John, Ava, Renee, Mia, Olivia

Part 2: Vivian, Madelynn, Gwen, Jessica, Victoria

It’s a fine day.

Does it make you wanna sing?

Make you wanna dance?

What a fine day.

It’s a fine day.

Does it make you wanna smile?

Make you wanna laugh?

What a fine, fine day.

Fine day, fine day.

What a fine, fine day.

part 1:

It’s a fine day.

And I think I’m gonna sing.

Think I’m gonna dance.

What a fine day.

It’s a fine day.

And I think I’m gonna smile.

Think I’m gonna laugh.

What a fine, fine day.

Fine day, fine day.

What a fine, fine day.

It’s a fine day.

Come on, ev’rybody sing.

Ev’rybody dance.

What a fine day.

It’s a fine day.

Come on, ev’rybody smile.

Ev’rybody laugh.

What a fine, fine day.

Fine day, fine day.

It’s a fine, fine day!

Running in the grass,

playing in the park,

smelling all the flowers!

What a fine day!

Running in the grass,

playing in the park,

smelling all the flowers!

What a fine, fine day!

What a fine, fine day!

What a fine, fine day!

What a fine, fine day!

What a fine, fine day!

part 2:

Fine day,

sing.

Think I’m gonna dance.

Fine day.

Fine day.

Fine day, smile.

Think I’m gonna laugh.

Fine day, fine day.

Fine day, fine day.

What a fine, fine day, day.

Fine day,

sing.

Ev’rybody dance.

Fine day.

Fine day.

Fine day, smile.

Ev’rybody laugh.

Fine day, fine day.

Fine day, fine day.

It’s a fine, fine day, oh!

Ah!

Ah!

A

fine day!

Ah!

Ah!

A

fine, fine day!

A fine, fine day!

A fine, fine day!

A fine, fine day!

A fine, fine day!

IT’S A FINE DAY, Teresa Jennings – MUSIC K-8, Volume 22, Number 5

© 2012 Plank Road Publishing, Inc. • All Rights Reserved

November: Franz Joseph Haydn

Our November Composer of the Month is:

Joseph Haydn

Haydn was born into a poor family. He began as a choirboy in Vienna at age 8 and survived poverty by teaching music lessons. Haydn's luck changed when a wealthy family hired him as a music director. For over 30 years, he filled their palace with music composing and conducting weekly concerts. He wrote over 60 string quartets and completed over 100 symphonies earning him the well deserved title of "Father of the Symphony!"

He is recognized by his music's cheerful, humorous, kind, and devout style.

Some of his more familiar compositions are: The Creation, "Surprise" and "Paris" Symphonies, and The Seven Last Words of Christ. 


Symphony No. 94, "Surprise" Symphony. 

The Creation. No. 4 - Und Gott machte das Firmament

Music K-8 Art Contest!

Plank Road Publishing has announced their 23rd annual contest:

Draw a Cover for Music K-8 Magazine!

Top prize is $250

The winning entry will be printed on the cover of the May/June 2015 issue of Music K-8!

See Mrs. Caughlan for entry sheets! All entries are due by January 16, 2015. 

October: Johannes Brahms

Our October Composer of the Month is:

Johannes Brahms

You might recognize his very famous Brahms Lullaby or Hungarian Dances.

Brahms is one of the may famous German composers. He learned to play cello, horn, and piano as a young boy and conducted his first concert at only 14.

Brahm's premier of his first piano concerto was a complete disaster. Thee audience hissed and booed him. Years later, Brahms gained success and great fame writing the famous pieces still listened to today.

To listen to some of Brahm's music, click on the videos below


Brahms Lullaby:

Hungarian Dances No. 5:

Hello there!

"Hello there, how are you? It's so good to see you! We'll sing and be happy that we're all here together again."

Welcome to the blog! GSA students K-2 sing this song as our welcome song every day. Our 1st and 2nd grade students have really improved with our class warm-up. I'm very excited about the musical talent we have this year! The students have really grown!

This year has been full of activity! I've been meaning to post to the blog since the first day of school, but we've been so busy! Our K-2 students spent all of September preparing for two performances, learning over 5 songs in just a few short weeks. Our 1st performance was for the GSA Grand Event, and our second was for a local festival known as Linfest. Oh, did I mention the performances were all in a period of about two days!?!?!?

The kids put on a wonderful performance for our Grant Event. I could not be more impressed and proud of them. Their performance was exceptional and I'm glad they were able to showcase their amazing talents for our grandparents and friends.

Our second performance for Linfest was a terrific way to give back to our local community. Over 130 students from our school volunteered their time on a Saturday to come out and sing for the festival. I was completely blown away by the support of the parents and staff who came out for the performance, and that so many students chose to attend. I could have never imagined so many students would come for the performance! If you're not familiar with GSA, this is a great testament to the kind, supportive, and gracious families and students we have here.

Now that the busy time is over, I hope to make more regular posts to the blog. I'm going to back myself into a corner here and say there will be a big new entry coming to the "student" section of the website. OK, now that I've said that I have to make it happen right????

Happy 2nd Quarter everyone!

Teacher Appreciation Week

This week is teacher appreciation week. What a wonderful week it has been! 

Students made appreciation notes in computer class for all the staff at GSA! It was great to get notes from all my students and especially from 4th grade students who I had in music last year! 

 When I came into school today, I had even more lovely notes taped to my door! I truly appreciate the cards and notes from everyone. I feel so loved this week! 

I believe 100% percent that the students at GSA are the sweetest ones around! I have saved every note, drawing, picture, and card I have received from students all year, and keep them in our "Sugar Notes" binder. As you can see, it's getting rather full!









My favorite gifts of all, however, have to be my egg shakers. Students periodically bring me an "Easter egg" they have filled with change, rice, sugar, beads, marbles, etc to add to our egg shaker collection! They like playing with these home made egg shakers better than playing with our real ones!

Thank you so much to all my students and their families for their wonderful gifts during this wonderful week!