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First-graders sing what they learn
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Under the direction of Janet Williams, C.H. Campbell Elementary School music specialist (seated at piano), first-grade students performed a concert in front of an auditorium full of family and friends May 21. The concert included songs which demonstrated lessons the students will be able to use throughout their lives.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.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 during the school’s annual concert May 21.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Fourth-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School accompanied their first-grade siblings on recorder and guitars during their concert May 21. Sibling pairs participating in the show included, Andrew and Mia D’Apolito, Sophia and Anna Katsaras, Delaney and Jack Pallo, Spencer and Ireland Rose, Luke and Faith Morell, Whitney Posey, Lola Batten and Ava Leuschner, Grace and Ellie Scott, Emma and Samuel Castronova, Evan and Nicholas Beistel, Lauren and Allison Jones, Hannah and Emma Barone, Nick and Alexander Hewko, Antonio and Natalia Santiago. Not pictured were Beam Toomthong and Opp Panthung.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A group of C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade students held up signs with the world’s seven continents while singing “BINGO/The World Has Seven Continents,” which focused on world geography, during the school’s annual concert May 21.
By ABBY SLANKER
C.H. Campbell Elementary School first-grade students kept the energy flowing during their concert, which they performed in front of an auditorium full of family and friends, May 21. The concert, which was under the direction of Janet Williams, C.H. Campbell music specialist, included songs which demonstrated lessons the students will be able to use throughout their lives.
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.
Song selections categorized in the social studies portion included, “This Land is Your Land/Canfield/Ohio,” during which the lyrics were changed to highlight Canfield and Ohio, which related to geography and map skills; patriotic song “America, The Beautiful”; “He’s Got The Whole World in His Hands/Dr. Martin Luther King” honoring famous Americans; “Are you Sleeping,“ during which students held up symbols of the United States; “BINGO/The World Has Seven Continents” focusing on world geography 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; “A-Hunting We Will Go,” which highlighted rhyming words and “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song,” which focused on contractions.
According to Williams, the students finished the language arts portion with one of their favorite, “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, complete with hand motions.
The math selections included such songs as, “Skip To My Lou,” during which the students counted by twos, fives, and tens 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 number systems and coin values.
The science portion of the concert included selections, “Solar System in Motion,” which taught the children about Earth and Space sciences and the universe, “Yellow Submarine/Lend a Hand,” which taught the children about recycling, “She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain/Water Cycle Song,” which related to patterns in nature and “The More We Get Together/Every Little Riddle,” which highlighted science exploration.
For the music subject segment of the program, the children sang Scales and Arpeggios, which focused on drill and practice and then closed the concert with “Do-Re-Mi,” which taught the them about musical scales and sequence.
The first-graders were accompanied by several fourth-grade students on guitars and recorders. Many of these fourth-graders had first-grade siblings performing in the concert.
“I would like to thank the fourth-grade support team here tonight. They have accompanied our first-graders on percussion, guitars and recorders, with many having younger siblings in the show tonight. I would also like to thank our PTO, which provided us with the guitars. We would not have those instruments without the PTO’s help. Everyone loves the guitar. The students really enjoy learning to play them,” Williams said.