Welcome to the Fairview Elementary Music Website
At Fairview, students learn music through many different ways. Music class is an active music-making environment where students sing, rhythmically speak, play instruments, read children's literature, improvise, create and arrange music, read musical notation, play games, and move.
This website should familiarize you with all of the things that we do in music class at Fairview.
This website should familiarize you with all of the things that we do in music class at Fairview.
Fairview VoicesFairview Voices is our school's show choir. Open to fourth, fifth and sixth grade students, Fairview Voices began their 2022 Season "SHADES!" in January and ended in April. Visit the Fairview Voices page for complete information. Here's a picture from our recent work with West Connection from Bellevue West High School.
Fairview Chime ChoirThe Fairview Chime Choir finished its season in December with a community tour to Durham Museum and Fontenelle Forest. Check back in the fall to learn about next year's season of Fairview Chime Choir.
2021 Saturday ChorusFairview was excited to have one student participate in this year's Bellevue Public Schools Saturday Chorus.
Visit the Saturday Chorus Website for more information. |
Kindergarten CelebrationThe Kindergarten will perform during their Celebration on Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 2 PM in the Fairview Gym.
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Music Curriculum
Bellevue Public Schools is committed to providing each student with an opportunity to learn in a variety of different ways and in many different subject areas.
Bellevue Public Schools' music curriculum was implemented in 2011. Our new curriculum ensures that all students in our schools here in Bellevue will learn the same concepts. Of course, every teacher is different and we may get to those learning targets in different ways!
Every student will be assessed over the following three essential objectives:
EO 1 - Students will sing.
EO 2 - Students will play instruments.
EO 3 - Students will read musical notation (grades 1-6). Students will describe music (kindergarten).
Since the essential objectives look the same at each grade level, here’s the skills we’ll be learning.
Kindergarten: Voice Choice, Fast/Slow, Soft/Loud, Steady Beat, High/Low, Matching Pitch
1st Grade: Steady Beat, rhythms: quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, pitches: so, mi, la.
2nd Grade: rhythms: half notes, pitches: do, re, instrument accompaniments
3rd Grade: rhythms: sixteenth notes, pitches: low la, instrument accompaniments,
4th Grade: pitches: high do, treble clef notes, playing recorder, rhythms: syncopa (eighth-quarter-eighth)
5th Grade: pitches: fa, playing melodies (recorder & instruments), rhythms: dotted quarter notes
6th Grade: rhythms: 6/8 meter, ensemble playing, pitches: ti
Click here for more detailed information on the summative assessments in our music curriculum.
Bellevue Public Schools' music curriculum was implemented in 2011. Our new curriculum ensures that all students in our schools here in Bellevue will learn the same concepts. Of course, every teacher is different and we may get to those learning targets in different ways!
Every student will be assessed over the following three essential objectives:
EO 1 - Students will sing.
EO 2 - Students will play instruments.
EO 3 - Students will read musical notation (grades 1-6). Students will describe music (kindergarten).
Since the essential objectives look the same at each grade level, here’s the skills we’ll be learning.
Kindergarten: Voice Choice, Fast/Slow, Soft/Loud, Steady Beat, High/Low, Matching Pitch
1st Grade: Steady Beat, rhythms: quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, pitches: so, mi, la.
2nd Grade: rhythms: half notes, pitches: do, re, instrument accompaniments
3rd Grade: rhythms: sixteenth notes, pitches: low la, instrument accompaniments,
4th Grade: pitches: high do, treble clef notes, playing recorder, rhythms: syncopa (eighth-quarter-eighth)
5th Grade: pitches: fa, playing melodies (recorder & instruments), rhythms: dotted quarter notes
6th Grade: rhythms: 6/8 meter, ensemble playing, pitches: ti
Click here for more detailed information on the summative assessments in our music curriculum.
Special Music Opportunities
Private Lessons - If you or your child are interested in learning piano, guitar, or another instrument, you may CLICK HERE for a list of organizations that offer private music instruction. The private lesson letter has questions you may want to ask, as well as websites and phone numbers to get you started. As a faculty member of the Bellevue Public Schools, we cannot recommend any one particular teacher.
Fairview Elementary Sites Quick Links
Click here to visit the Fairview Elementary website.
Contact Ms. Nelson, Fairview's Band Teacher. Click here to visit the Bellevue Band Website.
Contact Ms. Nelson, Fairview's Band Teacher. Click here to visit the Bellevue Band Website.