Helpful tips that I found online for Parents!

H E L P F U L   T I P S   F O R   FA M I L I E S
• Talk with your children about music – theirs and yours.
• Help your children take responsibility for caring for instruments and  
bringing them to school on appropriate days.
• Encourage your children to practice at home. The more they practice,  
the better they will play, and the more they will enjoy playing.
• Attend musical events with your children. Visitation has everything  
from formal concerts to musical theatre.
• Encourage your children to listen to many different kinds of music.
• Make music a regular part of your family life.

6th Grade Games to Learn!!

http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_word_warrior_treble.htm

http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_word_warrior_bass.htm

Practice your warrior games!!

- Mr. Tubb

What a Successful Christmas Advent Lighting

Dear Chapel Choir members,
You did a great job - well done. You sang great and your behaviour in the choir loft was good, so well done!

Remember, no chapel choir on Tuesday as it's Parent/Teacher night!

- Mr. Tubb

Instruments of the Orchestra

5th Grade.

Please use and explore this link. It's really cool!
Well, kind of cool!

You will be doing a project on the 'Instruments of the Orchestra' in the next few weeks, so it's really important that you know your bassoon from your piccolo, your trumpet from your tuba, and your glockenspiel from your contrabass-clarinet!

http://www.sfskids.org/flash/instruments/instruments.swf?dom=3

- Mr. Tubb

HUGE congratulations

Visitation Academy Girls,
You should be EXTREMELY proud of your efforts these past two days.
It's been hard work, it's been hot and tiring, but Mrs D'Auria and I are so pleased with what you have achieved. We have a lot of work ahead of us mixing all the tracks together and adding effects, but we should have an awesome CD ready to hear before Christmas.

Once again, THANKS: you are awesome and I'm so proud!

- Mr. Tubb

What should you know for the Christmas Concert?

Right. If you are anything like me, then you are getting as confused by who should be singing what, when, why and how. Here is a small breakdown.

Pre-Kindergarten
Only song they should be singing/practicing is 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.

Kindergarten
Anything with jingle bells! Your two songs are 'Jingle Bells' and 'Jingle Bell Rock'.

1st Grade
You should know Silent Night and Away in a Manger and 'Reprise: I Need a Christmas Vacation'.

2nd Grade
You should know Away in a Manger and 'Reprise: I Need a Christmas Vacation'.


3rd Grade
- 12 Days of Christmas
- 'Reprise: I Need a Christmas Vacation'
- Santa Claus be there for Me
- Mary's Song of Praise

4th Grade
- Good King Wenceslas
- 'Reprise: I Need a Christmas Vacation'
-  Christmas Fiesta
- xxxxxxxxx (Nativity song)

5th Grade
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to be finished soon!

4th Grade World Music Project

4th Grade,

So, first of all, this is a mini-project, not a small piece of homework. Therefore, I am not expecting a few lines: I am expecting a few paragraphs with some pictures and examples, etc. You should do this project on on piece of paper, it could either be printer paper, several pieces of printer paper taped together or on small posterboard. Just remember though, there are lots of you and not much space to display these pieces of work, so bigger isn't better!

Now onto the task. You have each been given a style of world music from Gamelan to Pop Music: The Beatles. Your task is to design a fact sheet about that style of music.

Your poster should tell me:

• Where in the world is the music from?
• What is it famous for?
• Are there any dance moves associated with it?
• What is the history of the music?
• What are the instruments that are found in this style of music?
• Which performers made it famous?
• What do the instruments look like?

e.g. Irish Music

• Irish music is from all over Ireland.
• It is famous for being easy to dance to. There are Irish jigs and Irish reels.
• Irish Dancers don't move their arms when dancing, it is all with their legs. Michael Flattley made irish music famous with Riverdance.
• Irish music started about 1900, where workers found ways to entertain themselves after a hard day at work.
• Irish music uses instruments such as the fiddle, accordion and bohdran (a small drum)
• The Corrs took Irish music and mixed it with modern-day pop to celebrate traditional music.

Fiddle

Accordion

Bohdràn

Mary's Song of Praise

3rd Grade,

I am so impressed and proud of the things that you are accomplishing in music. You are singing like angels and on the whole, your behaviour is great!

Now, onto business!
You have been given your final Christmas song: 'Mary's Song of Praise'. It is sung to the tune of greensleeves (a traditional English tune, supposedly written by Henry VIII)

Below is a link to a midi file which you can sing along with. It's pretty slow, so don't go too fast. Try to sound nice and sweet and don't strain your voice when you get to the high chorus! In fact, you need to relax even more!

Here is the link to sing along with!

Happy Singing
- Mr. Tubb

A-Wassailing!

7th Grade,

You did really well today, but check out this video!

It's not the best video, and it doesn't have the lyrics, but it's a hard one to find on youtube!!

- Mr. Tubb

Away in a Manger

Hello 2nd Grade,

Here you go - a video of Away in a Manger.

Remember we are singing it: loud/soft/loud. (Loud shouldn't be shouting though!)

- Mr. Tubb

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Hi 6th Grade,

Here is a pretty video to accompany your song.
Please practice it - I want to record it as soon as possible!

- Mr. Tubb

Twelve Days of Christmas

3rd Grade,

This is a good video!
Do you remember what you are? 

- Mr. Tubb

Good King Wenceslas

- Mr. Tubb

Slightly cheerier

So, the last blog template was a little bleak. It was dark and moody.
As the days get shorter and we wake up before the sun does, I thought the blog would look nicer if it was a little bit cheerier.

I kept the same background, but made the text boxes brighter and used a nice happy purple, rather than orange.

It's the small things in life that make it interesting, no?

- Mr. Tubb

Cast List

Cast List for

‘A Pirate Christmas’

Elves:

Little Elf & Aqua Elf: Adrianna Kulusic-Ho

Tiny Elf: Carina D’Urso

Teeny Elf & Sunnyside Elf: Ava Aronsen

Wee Elf: Kimberly Cabrera

Binocular Elf & Blabber Elf: Natalie Grasso

Curious Elf, Beachcomber Elf & Happy Elf: Erica Kreisberg

Practical Elf: Fiona Conaghan

Wishful Elf & Enthusiastic Elf: Sophia Mellace

Skeptical Elf & Appreciative Elf: Bianca Curilli

Defensive, Small, Realistic & Charity Elf: Christina Kefalas

Offended Elf & Charity Elf 2: Renée Kabbez

Dreamer Elf & Matter of Fact Elf: Gabby Mazza

Pirates:

Santa Claus/White Beard

Olivia Mason

Captain Pirate

Carolyn Smith

Yellow Beard 1, 5, 7: Silvana Gatto

Yellow Beard 2, 4 & 8: Maggie Arpaia

Yellow Beard 3, 6 & 9: Nora Meehan

Brown Beard 1, 4 & 7: Olivia Basil

Brown Beard 2, 5 & 8: Brianna Curilli

Brown Beard 3, 6 & 9: Gabrielle Phillip

Black Beard 1, 4, 7 & 10: Desirée Parke

Black Beard 2, 5 & 8: Gabby Orsi

Black Beard 3, 6 & 9: Kristen Walsh

Red Beard 1, 4, 7 & 10: Uriel Rufen-Blanchett

Red Beard 2, 5 & 8: Krista Moreau

Red Beard 3, 6 & 9: Helena Gershon

Green Beard 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 10: Samantha Sblendorio

Green Beard 2, 4, 6 & 8: Daniella Branchinelli

Blue Beard 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9: Gabby Mass

Blue Beard 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10: Brianna Fulgoni

Pink Beard 1: Emily Anderson

Pink Beard 2 & 3: Jennifer Babick

Blue Beard 8 & Prancer: Lexus Rodriguez

Blue Beard 8 & Dancer: Paige Rodriguez

I need a Christmas Vacation Lyrics

Visitation Girls,
Have you unfortunately lost your lyrics for your song?
Find them here and print them out!

I Need a Christmas Vacation

8^th Grade

Christmas day is almost here.

Time to spread some holiday cheer.

Haven’t had a holiday for almost a year.

I need a vacation now.

Decorations are all about.

School is great, but I’m all burned out!

One more day makes me wanna shout,

I need a vacation now!

I need a Christmas vacation.

I need a holiday.

I need a Christmas vacation.

Gotta go outside and play! All day!

I need a Christmas vacation.

Please hear me when I say,

I need a Christmas vacation!

Come on Santa, take me away.

Dialogue:

Pupil 1: Only thirty minutes until Christmas vacation officially begins!

Pupil 2: Thirty more minutes? I don’t think I can make it!

Pupil 3: Hang in there, fella! I won’t leave you behind!

Pupil 4: Really? You’d stay behind here at school if I had to?

Pupil 3: (pause) Just kidding! I’m outta here!

Time to ride on an open sleigh.

Goin’ skiin’ ev’ry single day.

It’s a homework free holiday.

I need a vacation now!

1: My fam’ly goes to Mexico.

2: Grandma will be coming from Idaho.

3: I’ll eat with kinfolk I don’t even know.

All: I need a vacation now!

I need a Christmas vacation.

I need a holiday.

I need a Christmas vacation.

Gotta go outside and play! All day!

I need a Christmas vacation.

Please hear me when I say,

I need a Christmas vacation!

Come on Santa, take me away.

Dialogue:

Mabell: What’s that you say? A clouseout sale at Century 21? I’ll be there in a couple of hours! You’re breaking up, Gloria! You’re breaking up! It must be the snow starting to fall!

Tonight we do our Christmas play,

Politic’ly correct in ev’ry way.

But we gotta be done by Christmas Day.

I need a cavation now.

1: I’ll decorate the tree.

2: I’ll donate to a cause.

3: Go shopping at the mall.

4: I’ll wait for Santa Claus.

All: I need a Christmas vacation (pause) now!

RIGHT NOW!

A Winter’s Tale

7^th Grade

Solo: what do we all liveth for in the winter when it’s forty below?

On midwinter break, we ache for flakes, flakes and flakes of snow.

Group 2: Snow, Hey, Ho. How we love Snow. Hey, Ho. How we love snow.

Group 1: Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No. Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No.

Group 1:

Oh what a day,

Oh what a sight!

Wonderful world,

All dressed in white.

All:

How I love staying out, love playing out in the snow.

Look here it comes, just watch it fall.

We’ll have a white Christmas after all.

How I love going out,

Oh it’s blowing out in the snow.

We can ride a toboggan and ski down a hill.

Go on a sleigh-ride, oh boy, what a thrill!

Glide and slide on figure skates, hurry, don’t be late.

Group 2: Snow, Hey, Ho. How we love Snow. Hey, Ho. How we love snow.

Group 1: Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No. Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No.

Group 1:

Oh how I love each little flake.

Snow is the licing on the cake.

All:

How we’ll be heading out, fun sledding out to the snow.

Group 2: ||:  Snow, Hey, Ho. How we love  :||	Group 1: ||: Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No.                  :||
Both groups repeat until dialogue is over.

Announcer:

Attention students and teachers. Due to the blizzard-like conditions outside, the superintendent has called from the Bahamas to tell us that we must all stay at school until this storm has passed. It could be an hour. It could be a day. I could be for the entire winter vacation. Have a nice day!

All: No! (very long)

How can this be?

Oh no, it’s not!

All of this snow isn’t so hot.

What lousy luck!

Look how we’re stuck

In all this snow!

Please make it quit.

Please make it stop.

These aren’t just flakes, it’s a bumper crop!

Please go away.

Don’t make us stay.

Look at all this snow!

All of my plans have been put on hold.

Who can go out when it’s this freezing cold?

Snow can ruin ev’rything.

Let’s just jump to spring!

Group 2: ||:  Snow, Oh, No. There’s too much :||	Group 1: ||: Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No.                  :||
Both groups repeat until dialogue is over.

Actor 2: (desperately manic) Stuck at school? This can’t be! I have an audition!)

Actor 1: (shocked) What?!

Actor 2: Put some boots on and get out there!

Actor 1: (proudly) I’m an actor!

Actor 2: (confused) You’re a seventh grader! Move it!

Group 1:

This is our tale,

Some tragedy.

That old King Lear’s got nothign on me.

All:

One fatal flaw,

I’ll never thaw ‘cause I’m stuck in snow!

Group 2: Snow, Oh, No. There’s too much Snow. Oh, Please. I have to go! Hey, Ho, There’s to much snow, Snow, Snow!

Group 1: Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No. Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny No. Nonny nonny Nonny nonny Nonny nonny There’s too much snow, snow, Snow!

Christmas Fiesta

4^th Grade

Solo:

In Old Mexico each holiday,

You’ll hear a familiar ring.

The people dance, Mariachi play,

And this is what they sing.

All:

The holidays are beginning,

My fav’rite time of the year.

Ev’rybody is grinning,

The day is almost here.

I have a special requesta,

Of each and ev’ryone;

Let’s have a special Fiesta,

A holiday in the sun.

Christmas Fiesta, winter in the sun.

Christmas Fiesta, fun for ev’ryone.

Cabo San Lucas or Acapulco Bay.

Christmas fiesta, it’s the perfect holiday!

If the temp’rature still is freezing,

Let me tell you ya oughta,

Stop your sniffling and sneezing.

Join us in Las Posadas.

So Santa, this is my order.

I’m sending it to you.

A Christmas south of the border,

I hope you make it all come true.

Christmas Fiesta, winter in the sun.

Christmas Fiesta, fun for ev’ryone.

Cabo San Lucas or Acapulco Bay.

Christmas fiesta, it’s the perfect holiday!

Solo: So if you’re feeling depression, celebrate Las Posadas.

Or if you’re feeling aggression, take it out on our piñata!

All: Fiesta! (long pause) Fiesta!

Christmas Fiesta, winter in the sun.

Christmas Fiesta, fun for ev’ryone.

Cabo San Lucas or Acapulco Bay.

Christmas fiesta, it’s the perfect holiday!

It’s the perfect holiday! It’s the perfect holiday!

Santa Claus Be There for Me

3^rd Grade

This year there’s be no holly.

This year there’ll be no joy.

This year there’s nothin’ jolly

For this little girl or boy.

The snow keeps comin’ faster:

Oh how in the world can this be?

This is total disaster.

Will Santa Clause be there for me?

Santa, oh Santa,

I sing this song for you.

Santa, oh Santa,

Won’t you please, oh please come through?

Ya know I’ve always been faithful,

And Santa, I’ve always been true.

Ev’ry single Christmas,

I’ve always been there for you.

But this year might be diff’rent

When you visit my Christmas tree.

Santa, I may not be there,

But will you please be there for me?

I’m down on my knees!

Santa, oh Santa,

I sing this song for you.

Santa, oh Santa,

Won’t you please, oh please come through?

So listen to my story.

It’s sad but it is true.

I’m stuck at school this Christmas

With nothing but the blues.

Saint Nick, I promise I’ll get there.

I’ll get home ASAP.

Santa, please think of my welfare,

Ya gotta be there for me.

Oh Santa, please hear my plea.

Santa, please be there for me,

For me.

“Your Friend, ____________________”

Holiday House Party

6^th Grade

Deck the halls,

Trim the tree,

String up all the lights.

Here we are together, making season’s bright. Oh!

Hip hooray, holiday.

Hurry, don’t be late.

Time for my vacation, ev’rybody celebrate.

Dashing room to room, we have to decorate.

Someone get a brook, before I graduate!

We’re spreading Christmas cheer. You gotta do your part.

So grab some tinsel, hang a wreath and deck the halls with heart.

Dialogue

Hanukkah Celebrant: But we don’t have even a Menorah to celebrate Hanukkah?

Chemistry Student: I know! To the Chemistry room!

Chem Student 2: Great Idea! Line up those 8 Bunsen burners!

Chem Student 3: Perfect! Use this lighter as a Shamas and we’re set!

Chem Student 4: Is that kosher?

Hanukkah Celebrant: Kosher? It’s a miracle!

Sung

Oh!

Deck the halls,

Trim the tree,

String up all the lights.

Here we are together, making season’s bright. Oh!

Hip hooray, holiday.

Hurry, don’t be late.

Time for my vacation, ev’rybody celebrate.

What a Christmas thrill, to take away the chill.

Light the candles on the tree and cause a fire drill.

I’m happy to report, that ev’ryone supports

An afternoon of ballet or a winter full of sports.

Dialogue

Girl: We can watch the Nutcracker on TV in the Library!

Footballer: Are you kidding! The bowl games have already started. If the TV works, we’re watching football!

Girl: Nutcracker!            Boy: Football!

Girl: Nutcracker!            Boy: Football!

Girl: Football!            Boy: Nutcracker!

Girl: HA!!!

chanted:

Give me a G!

Give me an O!

Let’s Go!

Large Dance Break

We should have a plan to make the most of it.

Do the best we can. We have to make it fit.

If you follow me, I can guarantee

We can cook a Christmas meal in tubes from Chemistry!

I’m Hungry

We’re all Hungry!

To the Cafeteria!

Dialogue

Kitchen Helper: But Wait! All that’s left are the leftovers from yesterday’s hot lunch program.

Hungry Kid: I don’t care – I’m HUNGRY!!

Sung

Food Fight!

Desk the halls, trim the tree,

String up all the lights.

Here we are together, making season’s bright.

Oh!

Hip hooray, holiday.

Hurry, don’t be late.

Time for my vacation, ev’rybody celebrate!

Deck the halls, trim the tree,

String up all the lights.

Here we are together, making season’s bright. Oh!

Hip hooray, holiday. Hurry, don’t be late.

Time for my vacation, ev’rybody celebrate!

Celebrate!

Christmas With My Friends

5th Grade

Winter days are shorter now; Fire and candles glow.

Little children wonder how Santa Claus will know.

Who’s be naughty? Who’s been nice?

Is it all pretend? I believe this Christmas eve,

I’ll share it with my friends, my friends.

Holidays are ev’rywhere, in your heart and mind.

Sparkling in the winter air, magic you will find.

Hand in hand and side by side, with love that never ends.

Let it be just you and me and Christmas with my friends, my friends.

Dialogue

Betty: Well, I’m sure glad that all of you have decided to count your blessings and see how lucky we are to get to spend our holiday vacation right here with all of our friends.

Student: Hey, Miss Betty. What ever happened to your friend, Mr. Wilson?

B: Why, I don’t know. He seems to have disappeared. But, look who’s here?

Santa: Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!

All: It’s Santa!

Santa: Ho! Ho! Ho! I heard there were some students stuck at school for the holidays. So I got here as quickly as I could!

Child: Oh Santa! I knew you’d be there for me!

Santa: Of course I would! I’m Santa Claus! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Betty: Look kinda skinny to me!

Child: Looks just right to me!

Sung

I’m so glad this Christmas Eve, to share it all with you.

In my heart, I do believe wishes do come true.

I’ll remember through the years, each Christmas card I send.

Love to all as I recall this Christmas with my friends.

I’ll remember through the years, each Christmas card I send.

Love to all as I recall, this Christmas with my friends (my friends).

 

Reprise: I Need a Christmas Vacation

All Grades (except K & Pre-K)

We hope you liked our Christmas play

We hope you have a happy holiday,

But the time has come for us to say,

We Need a Vacation now!

So decorate the tree,

Donate to a cause,

Go shopping at the mall,

And Wait for Santa Claus.

We’ll take a Christmas vacation...

...now!

Happy Holidays!