The Music Program

Tonight was the Spring music program for fourth grade. It was a very entertaining night as for the first time I learned that my fourth grade students have come to the age where they feel they are too cool to do certain things. For our music program students were reading major speeches given at the time of war: Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death," Roosevelt's "A day that will live in infamy," and Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." As a class we have practiced the speeches over and over and sang the songs to go along with each speech. What I really didn't realize was that in music the kids had learned some motions to go along with each song. At tonights program all but one stood still to sing. There was one song in particular that the children were to squat up and down to the beat of the music and when the time came all the children looked at each other laughed, and had the look of our we seriously going to do this. All in all it was a cute program just seeing how much the children have grown up.