At the end of the year, we will share what we have learned with the other grade levels in the school. The significance of this class is learning to read music and to make themselves familiar with band and orchestra instruments. These classes perform in the vocal and instrumental music night in the spring and at This Is Our Story . Band and String classes are offered for fifth grade students. Enrollment averages 55 to 60 students in the band class and 17-20 students in the string class.
Classes meet twice a week.
Is Our Story. At Harper Elementary School students learn to appreciate music through motivation, classroom materials, compact discs, tapes and videos that are used in each music class. Songs that are familiar to the children and that will hold their interest, as well as Popular and traditional music are taught to the students. In the primary grades rhythm instruments are also used to develop the students sense of tempo, rhythm, and how to play together as a team. Harper Elementary School also has a choir which consists of students in the fourth and fifth grade.