Wabash #348
5th-8th Grade Music
Mount Carmel, IL
2023 5th Grade Beginning Band Info!
Welcome future Aces band members! You are about to join a long standing tradition in Mt. Carmel-The Golden Aces Band!
Dear parents,
Greetings from the Mt. Carmel Music Department! As a 5th grader next year, your child finally has the opportunity to do what so many other successful students have done before them, “Be Part of the Band!”
Music education is more than just playing an instrument, it is immersing your child in a culture of successful students and teachers who care about education. It challenges each child to use the creative side of his brain while, at the same time, learning a foreign language… MUSIC.
Every destination starts with a decision to embark on a journey. Now is the time to start your child in music and the Mt. Carmel music program is the place to do it. We can’t promise that every child will be a musical prodigy, but we can promise they will learn, laugh, and grow along the way.
Should you have any questions about band or your child’s participation, please feel free to contact me using the information below.
More Beginning Band Information
Click on the links to find out more info about 5th Grade Beginning Band!
The Music Shoppe
Here is a link to a music store that services our school each week.
About our music program
Band instruction is offered beginning in 5th grade with a summer "Beginning Band Boot Camp" before school starts and 5th grade band during the school year. The program continues with 6th grade band and Junior High band (7th & 8th grade). Choir is offered beginning in 6th grade and continuing with Junior High choir (7th & 8th grade). Students may branch out in Junior High and participate in jazz band and our auditioned show choir "Varsity," as well.
Summer musicals are offered every other summer for music students in grades 5-9.
Schedules/Calendars
Advocacy:
Why is Music Education Important?
Fundamental Cognitive Skills and Capacities: Learning in individual art forms as well as in multi-arts experiences engages and strengthens such fundamental cognitive capacities as spatial reasoning (the capacity for organizing and sequencing ideas); conditional reasoning (theorizing about outcomes and consequences); problem solving; and the components of creative thinking (originality, elaboration, flexibility).
Motivation to Learn: Motivation and the attitudes and dispositions to pursue and sustain learning are essential to achievement. Learning in the arts nurtures these capacities—active engagement, disciplined and sustained attention, persistence and risktaking— and increases attendance and education aspirations.
Reading and Language Development: Basic Reading Skills: Certain forms of arts instruction enhance and complement basic reading instruction by helping children “break the phonetic code” that unlocks written language through the association of letters, words and phrases with sounds, sentences and meanings.
Taken from: Telling the Story: What Research Shows. (n.d.) Retrieved from https://nafme.org/my-classroom/music-achievement-council-resources-educators/telling-story-research-shows/
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My Philosophy of Music Education
Music is a natural form of expression in the development of children and should be an integral part of the school curriculum from preschool throughout high school. The study of music fosters artistic development, critical thinking, independent thinking, and the pursuit of life-long learning. Through performing and responding to music, all students develop individual skills, realize a sense of belonging, and establish connections to the community. From the earliest societies, music has been considered an important part of education. Every child should have the opportunity to develop their potential for musical expression through study, exposure, and enrichment.
About your teacher
Mrs. Ellen Wall is a 1994 Graduate of VanderCook College of Music with a Bachelors in Music Education and is a 2020 graduate of Eastern Illinois University with a Masters of Arts Degree with a Music Education concentration. Over the past 29 years she has enjoyed teaching 5th-8th grade band & choir at West Salem, IL, Red Hill CUSD #10 and now Wabash #348. Her family includes 3 teenage/young adult children, a foster daughter and her husband Joe, all of whom she loves very much. She also has 2 dogs.
Contact
Mrs. Ellen Wall, Band & Choir Director
Mt. Carmel Jr. High
201 Pear St., Mount Carmel, IL 62863
