Hello Leverett Families and Happy New Year! This month the music blog focuses on 5th grade music, their study of endangered animals and how we can musically portray these animals. Students were asked to use hand-held percussion instruments and improvise what their animal might sound like when it moves, eats or communicates. Students were […]

Many thanks to Greg and Sheffra Spiridopoulos for bringing the UMASS Brass Quintet and Trombone Choir to Leverett Elementary for a free concert today! They played a number of terrific tunes and some students got to conduct one of the pieces.  What a great day to celebrate Voting Day with this performance!

There has been lots of music making and enjoyment here at Leverett Elementary School in September! From our fabulous Peace Day Celebration inside and outside, to assemblies using Go Noodle and chants to inside the music room there is a great deal happening! Above are featured two pieces of music one from 6th grade from […]

CONGRATULATIONS 3RD GRADE! I am happy to report that all 3rd grade students have successfully completed the year’s instruction on recorder, passed both a playing and written test and have earned the right to take home the recorders to borrow for the summer! Enjoy playing third grade friends and please keep track of those recorders […]

Many thanks to Jean Jeffries, Ben Smar and Melissa Griffin, our visiting Brass Trio from the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra for a wonderful presentation last week in the Leverett Elementary Music Room.The third and fourth grade had lots of interesting thoughtful questions for our visitors about both their instruments and what playing in a symphony […]

Hello Parents, Guardians, Family and Friends, The Leverett Elementary School Music and Art Departments are proud to present an All-School Concert and Art Show for your enjoyment. The musical and art presentations entitled, “Arts and Animals” will include grades K-6. The shows will showcase student composed and arranged work on art, costumes, songs and instrumental […]

Welcome back to the Leverett Music room 2018! -Just friendly reminder that on the Music Room blog, there is now a place for all curious parents, students and friends to take a glance at the current national standards that are currently used to guide the students in the Leverett Elementary music curriculum. Although you may […]

Here at Leverett in the 3rd grade music, we have been composing rhythms with quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter rests and sixteenth notes. On a 4 x 4 grid, students composed their works with a choice of these symbols for rhythm. Then taking their composition further, created a melody using the notes C, D, E, […]

Welcome Back to the Music Room! All students will be singing, playing and moving in September as we get our musical brains flowing again! Chorus opportunities for 4, 5 and 6 grade students begin on Tuesday September 12. All classes will be learning the following song for Peace Day, coming up on September 25 at […]