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CHC students sing through their subjects
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To end the C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade concert, a student presented C.H. music teacher Janet Williams with a bouquet of flowers to thank her for teaching the students to love music.
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C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade students performed a concert to an auditorium full of family and friends May 22, which included songs that illustrated lessons the students will be able to use throughout their lives.
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A group of C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade students donned firemen hats and pretended to spray water hoses to the song “At the Firehouse,” which related to government and authority figures providing protection.
By ABBY SLANKER
C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade students performed a high-energy concert for an auditorium full of family and friends May 22, which included songs that illustrated lessons the students will be able to use throughout their lives.
“The students have been learning the discipline of being in a group. The skills they have learned will help them with everything in life. They love making music and have established the skills needed to work as a team. You are in for a real treat tonight. We are going to give you the best gift of music we can,” said Janet Williams, C.H. Campbell Elementary School music teacher, as she welcomed the audience.
Selections were broken down into the subjects of social studies, language arts, math, science and music. Lyrics to many songs were changed to apply that song to the subject at hand.
Several selections were categorized in the social studies portion including, “This Land is Your Land,” during which the lyrics were changed to highlight Canfield and Ohio, which related to geography and map skills; “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” with lyrics changed to highlight the stars and stripes on the American flag, “Are you Sleeping,“ during which students held up symbols of the United States and “At the Firehouse,” during which a small group of students donned firemen hats and pretended to spray water hoses, and related to government and authority figures providing protection.
The language arts portion included such selections as, “Apples and Bananas,” which focused on phonemic awareness with long and short vowels; “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” which focused on initial consonant sounds and “A-Hunting We Will Go,” which highlighted rhyming words.
According to Williams, the students finished the language arts portion with one of their favorites, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
“The fourth-graders sang this song at their Evening of Art and Music recently, and it has become a favorite of the first-graders as well,” Williams said. The children then sang the lullaby, along with hand motions.
The math selections included such songs as, “Skip to my Lou,” during which the students counted by twos, fives, and 10s and which related to number systems and counting in groups; “The Addams Family/Days of the Week,” which related to history chronology and days of the week, “Brush Your Teeth,” which related to measurement, telling time and health and “Miss Lucy Had a Baby/The Money Song,” which focused on coin values.
The first-graders were accompanied by 33 fourth-grade students on guitars and recorders. Several fourth-graders had siblings performing in the concert.
The students used several props and instruments throughout the program to punctuate the song selections, as the purpose of the selections were to learn through song.
At the end of the performance, the first-graders presented Williams with flowers.
“The first-graders want to thank you for teaching us to love music,” said a first-grader as she handed the bouquet to Williams.