An Appreciation Luncheon for Utah State Legislators was held at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Friday, January 31, 2020. It was a fabulous affair filled with Art, Dance and support for the BTSALP program.
Art for Centerpieces and Program – Liberty Hills Elementary, Alpine District, Jen Terry
“We Will Rock You!” presented by Herriman Elementary School, Jordan School District 4th Grade (Ms. Mumford,) Jana Shumway BTSALP Dance Specialist
Gumball Machines: Study of Color Mixing – James Moss Elementary, Granite School District, Kirsten Schiel
Sandhill Cranes in Utah Wetlands: Environmental Studies – Riley Elementary, Salt Lake City School District, Regina Stenberg
Aspen Trees – Eastlake Elementary, Jordan School District, Jacquelin Webster
Ladder to the Moon – Amelia Earhart Elementary, Provo School District, Amanda Elton
Cubist Autumn Trees – Bennion Elementary, Salt Lake City School District, Paul Heath
Utah Biomes Interactive Murals – Millcreek Elementary, Granite School District, Rachel Lankford
First graders at Monte Vista Elementary School in Jordan School District, under the direction of BTSALP Music Specialist, Amanda Maloy, presented a musical and visual extravaganza for parents and students!!!! All the students in the five first grade classrooms participated in the performance. Amanda wrote the script and directed the first graders in a rollicking good show! See for yourself!
Josh Roberts, BTSALP Music Specialist, makes musical magic on a daily basis at Blackridge Elementary School in Jordan School District. The music making starts before school and continues after school with Recorder Club and Ukulele Club.
Students eagerly get out their Orff instruments and start the class session practicing rhythm.
Rhythm, beat, teamwork, coordination and concentration all come into play with this musical activity.
Friends of Job
Oh the friends of Job are quickly passing by,
They can take, they can leave,
They can take, they can go,
They go tiga-taga tiga-tag tiga-taga toe,
They go tiga-taga tiga-tag tiga-taga toe,
Third graders take a musical trip around the world getting their passport “stamped” along the way. To finish up their South American music unit, students were treated to a video clip of Samba fire dancers of Brazil. Caution: Do NOT try this at home!
Spencer and Camilla Duncan are BTSALP Drama specialists and . . . they are also husband and wife! Spencer teaches at Copper Canyon Elementary and Elk Meadows Elementary in the Jordan School District while Camilla is at Edgemont Elementary and Park Lane Elementary in the Canyons School District.
Spencer’s sixth grade class Copper Canyon have been studying and acting out the Egyptian myth of Osiris during drama class this month. Below is a short synopsis of the Egyptian myth.
The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris’s murderer, his brother Set, usurps his throne. Meanwhile, Osiris’s wife Isis restores her husband’s body, allowing him to posthumously conceive their son, Horus. The remainder of the story focuses on Horus, the product of the union of Isis and Osiris, who is at first a vulnerable child protected by his mother and then becomes Set’s rival for the throne. Their often violent conflict ends with Horus’s triumph, which restores Maat (cosmic and social order) to Egypt after Set’s unrighteous reign and completes the process of Osiris’s resurrection.
From right to left: Isis, her husband Osiris, and their son Horus, the protagonists of the Osiris myth
“Death on the Nile River”
Camilla Duncan uses the book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, to integrate problem solving , weather and simple machines with her 4th graders at Park Lane Elementary. After a quick warm up, students discuss issues in their imaginary town, Burgertown. How will they clean up all the food that has fallen from the sky? What types of machines can they create that could solve Burgertown’s sanitation problem?
Group Assignment for the Day: Physically create a machine that can solve the problem. Explain how your machine works (Sound effects appreciated!) Name your machine.
Take a wander through Rachel Henderson’s Visual Art Studio at Westvale Elementary School, Jordan School District.
It’s hard NOT to feel creative when surrounded by color, art and a wide variety of supplies!
6th Grade impressive figure drawings! (The mannequins really help!)
Westvale’s Rotating Art Gallery
Maurya Fox, BTSALP Specialist, is a music teacher extraordinaire. She teaches before and after school programs, conducts and accompanies 60 participants in the “Soaring Singers” chorus, and directs a musical theater group that has 55 participants. But the “real magic” happens when you walk through the doors of her classroom at Riverside Elementary School in Jordan School District.
Her classroom is filled with instruments, artifacts and treasures from countries all over the world.
Ms. Fox uses African instruments to teach sixth grade students about the culture and music of African nations.
Background: The agogô may be the oldest samba instrument based on West African Yoruba single or double bells. The agogô has the highest pitch of any of the bateria instruments. It is used in the ceremonial music of religions in Yorubaland as well as in their new world practice, which is based on beliefs such as Candomblé brought by slaves from Africa. Forged from iron, they feature a larger a low-pitched barrel (the parent bell) and a smaller high-pitched barrel (the child bell), said to rest on the bosom of the protective parent.
Also known as Yoruba Priest’s Bell, Yoruba Gong, Gangokui Double Bell, kpanlogo (Ghana) and Cha Cha Bell
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Background: Bottle cap instruments come in many shape and sizes. They are found in many forms of music. Turkish, Greek and Italian folk music. Also classical, Persian, samba, gospel, and rock music.
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The African instruments were played by students focusing on rhythm – whole notes, half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes.
