Last December, I posted the music that my K-3 would be performing at their Holiday Concert. As I just left on maternity leave, I had to make sure that the students were ready for their spring concert. That made me think of this post and sharing the concert music.
Our Spring Concert is technically our Grandparents’ Day Concert (even though Grandparents’ Day is technically in September). I have to prepare two separate concerts. The first concert occurs earlier in the day and just involves PreK Olders (4 year-olds). They will be singing for their grandparents in their classroom and not on stage. This way, we provide a more comfortable performing atmosphere. They will be singing the following:
- Grandparents You’re the Best! from Denise Gagne’s Sing and Play on Special Days. This is actually titled Mom You’re the Best and it is for Mother’s day. We just changed Mother to Grandparents and it works very well. The PreK Olders love this song!
- Wake Me Shake Me – This is from the series Music and You Grade 1. It is a fun singing and moving song.
- America the Beautiful - We sing this song and ask the grandparents to sing along with us.
- Body Boogie – This is from Music K8 Volume 15 Issue 1. The students love moving to this song!
- BINGO – We sing and utilize pictures of the letters B I N G and O. When the students turn the letters over to clap, they find a quarter note or an eighth note.
- Kye Kye Kule – We use the Share The Music Grade 2 accompaniment for this. However, it can also be done acapella. It is a wonderful call and response song.
- Grand Old Flag –We ask the grandparents to sing along with us.
Later in the day, grades 2, 4, and 7 perform a Grandparents’ Day Concert on the stage. This year’s concert theme is “Colors”. For this concert, I just have to prepare the 2nd grade and my colleague prepares the 4th and 7th grades. The following songs will be performed:
- Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas arranged by Mac Huff – Grades 4 and 7 will open the concert with this song.
- Los Colores De La Primavera by Ken Johnson from Music K8, Volume 6 Issue 5 - Grade 2. The 2nd graders adore this song! They love singing in Spanish and they also love that they know all of their colors in Spanish. It is also a wonderful way to involve the Spanish teacher. She was thrilled to have them sing the song in her classroom and she also found two grammatical errors in the song and was able to fix them.
- Rainbow Connection arranged by Audrey Snyder - Grades 2 and 4. My 2nd graders love this song and when you combine the 2-3 part harmony/descant with the 2nd graders singing the melody, it brings a tear to your eye.
- Blue Skies – Grades 4&7 will sing this fun arrangement by Roger Emerson.
- Sing-Along (Patriotic Sing-Along with the colors of red, white, and blue). Every year we perform a sing-along for the grandparents to join us on. This year, I used exerpts from accompaniment tracks to make one long accompaniment track for our sing-along (I used the freeware Audacity to do this). I found most of the accompaniment tracks on Music K8, the music series of Music and You or Share the Music, or karaoke tracks found on iTunes. The words will appear on a powerpoint for the grandparents to sing along. Our sing-along contains the following:
- Blue and Red and White – Theresa Jennings from Volume 8 Issue 5.
- Stars and Stripes - We are using the lyrics that begin with “Three cheers for the red, white, and blue…”
- I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy
- America the Beautiful
- Grand Old Flag
- What is Pink? by Janet Gardner/Christina Rossetti. This is a fun song for grade 4.
- True Colors – Grades 2, 4, and 7 will sing this together as the finale.
These are the songs that my students will be performing on their spring concert. Since I just left on maternity leave, I will not be able to hear the final product, but I know that they will be wonderful!
What songs will your students be performing on their spring concerts?
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