Music Teacher: Mr. Rodriguez
Music at Deerwood:
- Helps children with language-learning impairments process speech
- Enables children to become more effective listeners
- Enriches the academic learning environment for all children
- Helps children practice and apply skills important to language development and comprehension
- Enables at-risk children to develop an interest in learning and promotes social development
- Encourages the cognitive development, discipline, teamwork and self-esteem of children
- Improves the abilities of children in math, science and spatial-temporal reasoning
- Helps to produce higher scores on standardized tests and college entrance exams
- Provides kinesthetic, aural, oral, visual and emotional experiences that bring written text to life
- Enhances basic skills used in reading/decoding; breaking the visual code of symbols into sounds
- Reinforces the development of left to right/up to down tracking in reading
- Improves reading skill development in: phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, sight identification, cueing system awareness and fluency
- Creates relationships within various historical periods and cultures of our world
Each child who attends music at Deerwood has the opportunity to:
- Sing songs with appropriate tone, pitch, and rhythm with or without accompaniment
- Sing songs representing a culturally diverse repertoire with appropriate expression, dynamics and phrasing
- Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- Read rhythmic and melodic notation using traditional and nontraditional symbols
- Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns and accompaniments
- Learn music vocabulary and describe what is heard in a variety of musical styles
- Know music and composers that represent various historical periods and cultures