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Welcome to Milne-Kelvin Grove District 91 Music Department |
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"Music Stars" Is the Theme in Music this year. Students in all grades will be studying different areas of "Music Stars" including: Seasonal Stars, Christmas Stars, Composer Stars, Tone Color Stars (Instruments, Voice, etc.), Broadway Stars and many others. We are so pleased that music classes have now returned to 40 minutes once each week instead of 30 minutes!
************************** We need 11 KG CPUs and 5 MG CPUs. Valucard Sales now until sold! Help us buy new Computers for Music Technology Classes at MG & KG $10 @ card = can be used at over 2000+ businesses nationwide and hundreds in our area every day for a year! Call Laurie at 815-834-9040 to order 0r 815-838-0737 ext. 140. Go to www.valucards.com to see entire listing. *********************
Sarah Randolph (D91 Music Tech Teacher- center) presents Thank You "NOTE" and musical card to Best Buy representatives from the Orland Park, IL store: Matt Metelak, & Christy Galardi, from the D91 Music students some shown in background
************************** Australia comes to D91! Mr. Peter Lee, Owner & Developer of the Internationally known software Musition and Auralia, came to see Lockport District 91's Music Technology Lab! D91 has been using Musition software for several years.
LEFT PICTURE: Mrs. Bobbie Thornton (Sibelius Representative), Mr. Peter Lee (Musition), & Mrs. Randolph (D91 Music Technology Teacher). Picture on Right with Mr. Jim Rojinski (D91 Technology Technition through Prairie Technology Corporation) ****************************************************************** *********************************************** OUR PAST MUSIC HISTORY
KG Chorus performed the National Anthem in celebration of the national observance September 14, 2007
Kelvin
and Milne Grove Schools Are All Star Schools National Association for Music Education
(MENC) and The National Anthem
Project have recognized the Kelvin and Milne Grove Schools of Lockport District
# 91 as official National Anthem Project All Star Schools.
The schools joined the National Anthem Project campaign by demonstrating a
commitment to music education in their community.
Both schools teach the history of our national anthem “The
Star-Spangled Banner” and all students learn to sing the national anthem. Each
year on or around September 14 both schools participate in an all school singing
of the national anthem, commemorating when Francis Scott Key wrote the words to
“The Star-Spangled Banner”. **************************
Lockport
D91 Students do over 1000 GOOD DEEDS Over 1000 “good deeds” have been done by the 350 + second through fifth grade and KG chorus students from the Lockport School District # 91 (Milne-Kelvin Grove Schools). The students were asked to find ways to serve/help others during the month of November. Deeds included: doing chores around the house without being told, raking leaves for senior neighbors, mowing yards, vacuuming house, washing floors, windows, cleaning basement, gutters; doing housework for grandma; giving up a chair to someone in church, cleaning the fridge and cabinets, saving money instead of spending it to help a paralyzed man, cheering up a friend when she lost her favorite toy (I had the same toy, so I gave her mine), helping uncle when he hurt his back, helping teachers, doing laundry, making dinner when Mom was sick, helping a senior cross the street, putting shopping cart away for a senior lady, helping work in the attic, giving to charity, walking to the store to buy groceries (saved gas and helped out), helping my sister learn to ride a bike, giving dogs a bath, babysitting without taking pay, and many more. The reason for this focus was to help in presenting the annual Christmas musical and tie in with the school district’s “Character Counts” program. 460 + students in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade, Kelvin Grove Chorus with the help of the Lockport School District 91 TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More) of teachers and staff presented the musical, “Santa’s Stuck in the 50’s” (by Sally Albrecht and Jay Althouse) Tuesday, December 4, 2007. The musical was about Santa and his helpers taking inventory of new toys in stock in the North Pole attic. They find a lot of toys from the 1950’s that are still popular today: Barbies, silly putty, hula hoops, yo-yos, Play-Doh, etc. Santa decides to clean out the attic. He doesn’t want the children to make Christmas Wish Lists this year, instead, he wants them to make him lists of good things they are doing to help other people. Christmas is not about getting, but about giving to others. One of the greatest gifts of giving is to help others. Santa surprised the children this year with some of the great 1950’s gifts when they sent him their list of good deeds. District 91 students used their lists of good deeds during the program. Lockport School District uses the “Character Counts” Program in grades K-8. Doing good deeds by serving/helping others follows several of the 6 pillars of Character: Trustworthiness – be honest, don’t deceive, cheat or steal; be reliable – do what you’ll say you’ll do; have the courage to do the right thing; build a good reputation; be loyal – stand by your family, friends and country; Respect – Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule; be tolerant of differences; use good manners, not bad language; be considerate of the feelings of others; don’t threaten hit or hurt anyone; deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements Responsibility – do what you are supposed to; persevere: keep on trying!; always do your best; use self-control; be self disciplined; think before you act – consider the consequences; be accountable for your choices; Fairness – play by the rules; take turns and share; be open-minded; listen to others; don’t take advantage of others; don’t blame others carelessly Caring – be kind; be compassionate and show you care; express gratitude; forgive others; help people in need; Citizenship – do your share to make your school and community better; cooperate; get involved in community affairs; stay informed; vote; be a good neighbor; obey laws and rules; respect authority; protect the environment; *******************************************************
************************** The 2007-08 Music Theme was "Dive Into Music!"
************************************* Music Technology Fund-raiser NOW Available Support
your school and enjoy this on your tree for years to come! Limited Quantity!
This is a fund-raiser for music to buy hard drives for the music computers. They are all gift boxed and string attached for immediate
decorating! Make checks out for $6 to Lockport Dist. 91 Music Technology and
return to Mrs. Randolph Quantity(Circle)
1 2
3 4
5
x $6 @ Enclosed Amount =
$_______ ***************************** The Music Department Theme
for 2006-07 was
************** ****************************************************************************** The Kelvin Grove Chorus was heard various times during December on WLIT 93.9 FM
radio station. They had to submit an MP3 a cappella
Christmas selection to be played on the air throughout the holiday season. We Won $1600 for the
"Spooky, Ugly Office Contest"
Mrs.
Randolph (Music/Chorus) & Ms. Henn (Band) in the basement Music Office Martin Whalen Office Solutions selected The Kelvin Grove Music and Band Office as one of the winners of their “Scary Office” Contest. Martin Whalen gave $5000 divided equally among the three winners Kelvin Grove Music/Band, Joliet School District 86, and the Rialto Theatre. Each group was able to select $1666 in office furniture/equipment of their choice. Mrs. Randolph and Ms. Henn decided to decorate their shared office for Halloween. They enlisted the help of Mrs. Randolph’s neighbors, Nick, Kim, Keara, and Kaley Kursell to loan them their Halloween decorations from their yard for the special project. The music theme this year is “We’re Wild About Music”. With that theme in mind, Mrs. Randolph and Ms. Henn enlisted the help of several “wild” students from skeletons to snakes to help perform in their “special” office. They teach EVERYONE music – no matter how scary their office is. Music will tame even the “Wildest” characters. The Music/Band have never had new file cabinets in their
office. The need was greater to purchase instruments, computers, etc. with no
extras for files. Many files came from the Army Surplus store or were donated
from places that were getting rid of their old cabinets. Thanks to Martin Whalen
Office Solutions, the music office will now have 5 new file cabinets to replace
5 of their 15 cabinets! THANK YOU MARTIN WHALEN OFFICE SOLUTIONS! (It was a
lot of fun!) See the music web site for all of the pictures and more details at www.d91.net
select music department and then scroll through the sections.
Everyone is "Wild About Music & Band" at Lockport District 91
We
share our box desk and milk crate
"chairs"
One of our students 2 of our students
We
will teach all of our students no matter
how
Come meet our wonderful students! THANK YOU Lockport High School Band/Music Department!The band/music department of Lockport Township High School donated 5 old electric Korg MIDI pianos to the Kelvin Grove music technology lab. Thank you Mr. Brian Covey, LTHS band director!
Music Lab as of October 10, 2006
****************Past Years*************** 2005-06 Music Theme for all Lockport District 91 Music Classes IS
TEACHERS: THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING:
Mrs. Randolph presents Thank
You Certificate to Best Buy PSA - Ms. Jamie Odierno (Orland Park, IL Store #
308) for the $2500 Te@ch
Award (2004) to Music Technology THANK
YOU TO BEST BUY who gave a $2500 GRANT (Year 2004) to
our Music Technology Program! We purchased Yamaha PSR 292 MIDI Keyboards
(pianos) for each of our music computers. We now have 23 complete music
technology stations (one station was purchased by KG Chorus parents new). We are
about 1/3 or the way to meeting our goal for both labs.
Mrs. Randolph presents Thank
You Certificate to Best Buy PSA - Abby Olivieri (Orland Park, IL Store #308) for the
$2500 Te@ch Award
(2005)awarded to Kelvin Grove School for Music Technology ************************************* SAM's CLUB GIVES Another $1000 Grant MAY 2006!
SAM's Club Represenatives-Mrs. Cassy Fuqua, and Threesa Kimbrough present $1000 check to Joliet Teacher of the Year (2003) to Mrs. Randolph *************************************************** $1100 Mary Heath Foundation Grant
Presented to
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