Music Curriculum for Lake Wylie Elementary!
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I have almost 700 enthusiastic, energetic, and eager music students from Kindergarten through 5th grade. We live in Charlotte, North Carolina and are part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District.
Though I work at the best school and have such a great (and large) group of students, we have one problem: NO CURRICULUM. Furthermore, our school is a high poverty school, with many families qualifying for free and reduced lunch, so money at our school is extremely tight.
Last year, I was blessed to be given a free trial of a music curriculum called, “Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music”. This is an interactive music curriculum that is accessible online. Students are able to access the curriculum in class and at home! Furthermore, it is FUN! Students were showing a level of engagement I never knew was possible. Students were retaining information from the prior lessons and were showing a rate of musical growth that I had never seen before. This curriculum incorporates content from other areas in every single lesson. Every single lesson includes some and/or all of the following content areas: math, history, reading, writing, social studies, science, and character education (my favorite). Musically, the curriculum abides by the NC Essential Standards for Music Education. Students graduate from this curriculum with a high level of understanding for music literacy (reading, writing, and interpreting sheet music), music history, musical elements, knowledge of Western AND World music, basic instrumental skills on percussion and wind instruments (Orff instruments and recorders), and most of all—a deep love and joy for music.
During the last week of school before Summer vacation, multiple students begged me to continue this curriculum into the 2019-2020 school year. The curriculum costs $1680 for all 650 students. If I had enough money to purchase this curriculum out of my own wallet, I would do so in a heartbeat.
I truly believe music is the most important subject in school because it incorporates every other subject. Most of all, students get to be happy in music. You know that free feeling of rolling down your windows on a warm day and blasting your favorite song? Maybe you know how it feels to be in a choir; to breathe as a community and to connect with other people in a intimate and meaningful way. Maybe you see the academic value in music: the extreme rigor that it takes to read and play music. Maybe you appreciate the selflessness of music and the sacrificial qualities it takes to play and sing music in a group.
For whatever reason you love music, your donation (no matter how small) can pass a sliver of that love on to 650 students. There are no words to describe just how grateful we (my students and I) are for your help!
Gratefuly and Musically Yours,
”Ms. Potts”
Though I work at the best school and have such a great (and large) group of students, we have one problem: NO CURRICULUM. Furthermore, our school is a high poverty school, with many families qualifying for free and reduced lunch, so money at our school is extremely tight.
Last year, I was blessed to be given a free trial of a music curriculum called, “Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music”. This is an interactive music curriculum that is accessible online. Students are able to access the curriculum in class and at home! Furthermore, it is FUN! Students were showing a level of engagement I never knew was possible. Students were retaining information from the prior lessons and were showing a rate of musical growth that I had never seen before. This curriculum incorporates content from other areas in every single lesson. Every single lesson includes some and/or all of the following content areas: math, history, reading, writing, social studies, science, and character education (my favorite). Musically, the curriculum abides by the NC Essential Standards for Music Education. Students graduate from this curriculum with a high level of understanding for music literacy (reading, writing, and interpreting sheet music), music history, musical elements, knowledge of Western AND World music, basic instrumental skills on percussion and wind instruments (Orff instruments and recorders), and most of all—a deep love and joy for music.
During the last week of school before Summer vacation, multiple students begged me to continue this curriculum into the 2019-2020 school year. The curriculum costs $1680 for all 650 students. If I had enough money to purchase this curriculum out of my own wallet, I would do so in a heartbeat.
I truly believe music is the most important subject in school because it incorporates every other subject. Most of all, students get to be happy in music. You know that free feeling of rolling down your windows on a warm day and blasting your favorite song? Maybe you know how it feels to be in a choir; to breathe as a community and to connect with other people in a intimate and meaningful way. Maybe you see the academic value in music: the extreme rigor that it takes to read and play music. Maybe you appreciate the selflessness of music and the sacrificial qualities it takes to play and sing music in a group.
For whatever reason you love music, your donation (no matter how small) can pass a sliver of that love on to 650 students. There are no words to describe just how grateful we (my students and I) are for your help!
Gratefuly and Musically Yours,
”Ms. Potts”
Organizer
Kelly Potts
Organizer
Charlotte, NC