"Feliz Navidad" Sights and Sounds Chorus and Ballet Folklorico Dance

Feliz Navidad

By Jose Feliciano

Ballet Folklorico

INTRO – come out in a line and form a line

Feliz Navidad

Face LEFT skirt in out then (stomp “not difficult”)

Feliz Navidad

Face RIGHT skirt in out then (stomp “not difficult”)

Feliz Navidad

Face FRONT skirt in out

Prospero Ano y Felicidad.

TURN LEFT skirt in out Face FRONT then (stomp “not difficult”)

REPEAT ABOVE

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE LEFT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE LEFT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE LEFT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

From the bottom of my heart.

CIRCLE LEFT skirt L hand in out R hand in out SPIN in place RIGHT hands up

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE RIGHT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE RIGHT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas

CIRCLE RIGHT skirt LEFT in out RIGHT in out

From the bottom of my heart.

CIRCLE LEFT skirt L hand in out R hand in out SPIN in place RIGHT hands up

"Jingle Bell Rock" Sights and Sounds Song and Dance

Jingle Bell Rock jitterbug

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jitterbug out-in 2 times

Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring

Turn under 2 times

Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun

Face partner lean to audience and away 2 times

Now the jingle hop has begun

Chug right and left 2 times

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jitterbug out -in 2 times

Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time

Turn under 2 times

Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square

Face partner lean to audience and away 2 times

In the frosty air.
Chug right and left 2 times

What a bright time, it's the right time

Partner rolls in and out 2 times

To rock the night away

Join R hands finger up walk in clockwise circle

Jingle bell time is a swell time

Roll in and out 2 times

To go riding in a one-horse sleigh

Face left hands on shoulders to audience and away 2 times

Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet

Face left hands on shoulders

Jingle around the clock

Cross arms go pull back and go around clockwise

Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet

Face forward and kick RL 2 times

That's the jingle bell rock

Spin in and out jazz hands out

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

Jitterbug out -in 2 times

Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time

Turn under 2 times

Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square

Face partner lean to audience and away 2 times

In the frosty air.
Chug right and left 2 times

What a bright time, it's the right time

Partner rolls in and out 2 times

To rock the night away

Join R hands finger up walk in clockwise circle

Jingle bell time is a swell time

Roll in and out 2 times

To go riding in a one-horse sleigh

Face left hands on shoulders to audience and away 2 times

Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet

Face left hands on shoulders

Jingle around the clock

Cross arms go pull back and go around clockwise

Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet

Face forward and kick RL 2 times

That's the jingle bell rock

Spin in and out jazz hands out

"Wonderful Christmas Time" S&S Solo and Chorus, rock band

Wonderful Christmas Time

By Paul McCartney and Wings

Solo Part

Choir part

VERSE 1

The mood is right
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime
Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

VERSE 2
The party's on

The feeling's here

That only comes

This time of year

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

CHORUS

The choir of children sing their song
They've practiced all year long

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding

VERSE 2

The party's on Santa & Ms. Claus come out with elves waving

The spirit's up

We're here tonight

And that's enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Elves bring out adults (Mr. Underwood, Mrs. Reyes, Mrs. Gilley, the Dean Cheatham) to dance hook arms and go around or ring around the rosey

VERSE 1

The mood is right

The spirit's up

We're here tonight

And OH that's enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh

Christmas time.

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" Sights and Sounds Opening Solo

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882), 1867)........................................... Karen Carpenter Singing Live

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair I bowed my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."

Till, ringing singing, on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!

Great Job! at the Veterans' Day Assembly 5th Graders

Carol of the Bells Home Alone Soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIm_KfK-5KE

Carol

of the Bells

Music by M. Leontovich

Words by Peter J. Wilhousky

Hark! How the bells,

Sweet silver bells,

All seem to say

“Throw cares away.”

Christmas is here

DING

Bringing good cheer

DONG

To young and old,

DING

Meek and the bold,

DONG

Ding, dong, ding dong,

DING

That is their song,

DONG

With joyful ring

DING

All caroling

DONG

One seems to hear

Words of good cheer

From everywhere,

Filling the air.

O, how they pound,

Raising the sound

O’er hill and dale,

Telling their tale.

Gaily they ring

While people sing

Songs of good cheer,

Christmas is here!

Merry, merry, merry,

DING

Merry Christmas,

DING DONG

Merry, merry, merry,

DING

Merry Christmas,

DING DONG

On, on they send

DING

On without end

DONG,

Their joyful tone

DI---I-----I------I

To every home

I---I----I---I—NG

DONG

Ding, Dong, Ding, Dong

BONG

Carol of the Bells Part 1

Carol of the Bells Part 2

Carol of the Bells Part 1 & 2

Danse Macabre by Camille Saint Saens

"Danse Macabre"
poem by Henri Cazalis
music by

Camille Saint-Saëns

On a sounding stone
With a blanched thigh-bone

The bone of a saint, I fear;
Death strikes the hour
Of his Wizard power
And the specters make haste to appear.


From their tombs they rise
In their deathly guise
Obeying the summons dread.
And gathering round
With reverence profound
They salute the King of the Dead.


Then he stands in the middle
And tunes up his fiddle
And plays them a gruesome strain.
And each gibbering wight
In the moon’s pale light
Music dance to that wild refrain.


Now the fiddle tells
As the music swells
Of the graveyard’s ghastly pleasures.
And they clatter their bones
As with hideous groans
They reel to those maddening measures.


The churchyard quakes.
And the old abbey shakes
To the tread of that midnight host.
And the sod turns black
On each circling track
Where a skeleton whirls with a ghost.


The night wind moans
In shuddering tones
Through the gloom of the cypress tree.
While the mad mob raves
Over yawning graves
And the fiddle bow leaps with glee


So the swift hours fly
‘Til the reddening sky
Gives warning of daylight near.
Then the first rooster crow
Sends them scurrying below
To sleep for another year.

Click HERE to open the Listening Map (look on page 4 of this pdf file)

Click HERE to open a youtube version of the music
or click on the title of this blog entry above for a video using this music

Click HERE for information about Camille Saint-Saëns,the composer

Click HERE for information about Henri Cazalis, the poet

Click HERE for information about the music "Danse Macabre"

Click HERE for background on La Danse Macabre, the late-medieval allegory

Click HERE for more information about Dia de los Muertos

How to dance the Thriller Dance

Click on "How to dance the Thriller Dance" to connect to thrilltheworld.com with videos online that will teach you how to dance "Thriller"

Thriller by Michael Jackson

In 1982, Jackson released his second Epic album, Thriller, which became the best-selling album in music history with more than 51 million copies sold worldwide.

The thirteen-minute "Thriller" was critically acclaimed, and massive airplay lead to it being packaged with the featurette "Making Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on VHS, where it became the best-selling music home video ever.

Thriller spent 37 weeks at number one and remained on the Billboard chart for 122 weeks. It was eventually certified 26x Platinum in the United State.

Later in 1984, Jackson won eight Grammy Awards. Seven were for the critically acclaimed Thriller, breaking the record for the most Grammy Awards won in a single year.

Toccata and Fugue in d minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

(Echo words and movements story that works like a listening map for
the Toccata and Fugue in d minor by Johann Sebastian Bach)

Going to a Haunted House

Wanna come along?
ok
oops, I forgot my flashlight
I better go upstairs and get it.
(hands walk up stairs)


(Hands walking on legs)
Coming to a tree
can't go around it
I guess we have to climb it.
(hands climbing tree)
TALL tree
Ready to jump?
JUMP!

Coming to a bridge
Can't go around it
We'll have to go through it.
(hand beating over heart)
Long bridge.

Coming to a river
Can't go around it
We'll have to swim through it.
(swimming arms)
Watch out for the alligators!
(hands clap in front like alligator jaws)

Walking through the grass.
(slide hands up and down)
The tall tall grass.
Watch out for snakes!
Hurry through the grass!

Coming to the haunted house!
(hands walking on legs)
Boy! it sure looks scary!
You go inside!
No YOU go inside!
(creek open the door)
It's a box
a LONG LONG box.
YOU look inside!
No YOU look inside!
(Creek open the lid)
Boney toes!
Boney knees!
Boney fingers!
NO EYES!
It's a skeleton!
RUN!

(repeat corresponding movements above)
Run through the grass!
Swim through the river!
Go across the bridge!
Climb the tree!
JUMP!
Go upstairs!

Hide under the bed!
Shhh! I hear something!

You go look!
No YOU go look!

Boney toes!
Boney knees!
Boney fingers!

EEEEEK!
(blood curdling scream)

Singing Rules

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Elvis, Gloria Estefan, Selena Photos

OPEN HOUSE PHOTOS September 11, 2008

Six Weeks Test

6 Weeks Test Review

DEFINITIONS:
The students need to be able to define

Music as "emotion expressed through sound."
Beat as "a pulse that is continuous and has the same amount of time between each pulse."

They need to recognize the meaning of these words from "The Star Spangled Banner"
dawn- when the sun comes up
twilight - when the sun goes down
broad stripes- 2 feet wide
perilous- dangerous
o'er- over
ramparts- walls of the fort
gallant- brave
yet-still

Song LYRICS:

Students will need to be able to fill in the blank on a matching test for
"The Star Spangled Banner"
"The Rattler Fight Song"
"The Rattler Alma Mater"

The Star Spangled Banner http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/

lyrics by Francis Scott Key (a lawyer)

Word Bank: bombs, dawn's, fight, flag, free, last, night, proof, proudly, red, see, star, streaming, stripes watched

Oh! Say can you ______

By the ________ early light


What so ________ we hailed

At the twilight’s ______ gleaming.

Whose broad ______

And bright stars,

Through the perilous ________

O'er the ramparts we _________

Were so gallantly _________

And the rockets ______ glare

The _______ bursting in air.


Gave ______ through

The _______

That our _______

Was still there.

Oh! say does that _______
Spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the _____

And the home of the brave.

"The Star Spangled Banner" Performance dedicated to all those in Military Service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0g-lxKn4VY

Jose Feliciano Sings "The Star Spangled Banner"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpdld0RBAk4

Jimi Hendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nO0F4ugss

San Marcos High School

School Website http://www.smcisd.net/SanMarcosHS.cfm

Wikipedia Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marcos_High_School_(Texas)

http://podcast.smcisd.net/groups/hspodcast/weblog/202e1/SMHS_Campus_Video_Tour.html

http://podcast.smcisd.net/groups/hspodcast/weblog/2547c/Spirit_Day_1_-0809.html

"Rattler Fight Song"

Fight, fight, fight for San Marcos High
We have the spirit never to die.
See our colors purple and white.
We're out to win this game tonight.



We are the Rattlers, best in the land.
We play the game the best that we can.
All you snakes of SM High.
We're out to fight! Fight! Fight!

Yay! Purple!
Yay! White!
Yay! Rattlers!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Snakes fight!
Snakes fight!
Yay! Snakes fight!

Rattler Alma Mater

Hail to dear old SM High School
High upon a hill.
We have never lost our spirit.
And we never will.
Hail to Rattlers! Dear old Rattlers!
Loyal always be.
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater!
Our hearts belong to thee!


Performers of the Month

Students should be able to identify

Elvis Presley

Gloria Estefan

Selena

when they see their picture and hear them on at least one listening selection.

They will also need to be able to answer various trivia questions about them.

Elvis Presley

OFFICIAL WEBSITE http://www.elvis.com

Jailhouse Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI

Viva Las Vegas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUiojxJxBj0

Trivia:

Title: The King of Rock and Roll

Had a twin brother that died at birth.

Bought his mother a pink cadilac with diamonds on the dashboard.

Some people believe that he is not dead.

Gloria Estefan

OFFICIAL WEBSITE http://www.gloriaestefan.com/cms

Conga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4A50EHwCjY

Turn the Beat Around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hVbE8wJ-U0

Trivia:

Born in Cuba.

Native Language: Spanish

Famous for singing in : English

Award with her husband for causing a CROSSOVER of Latino Music to English speaking cultures.

Selena

OFFICIAL WEBSITE http://www.q-productions.com/home.html

Bidi Bidi Bom Bom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbzEgfCwzJU

Baila Esta Cumbia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUlT43It9G8&feature=related

Trivia:

Title: Queen of Tejano

Selena's Native Language: English

Became famous for singing in: Spanish

GREAT JOB!! at Open House

5th Grade Open House PERFORMANCE Reminder

WHO: Fifth Grade Music Students

WHAT: Hernandez Open House

WHEN: Performance: Thursday, September 11, 2008

Approximate times and steps

6:00	1	Arrive & go to 5th Grade Gym
	2	Find your Teachers Name on the wall (Hint the same as in the morning)
	3	Sign NEXT TO YOUR NAME on the Class List
	4	Check on the Class List to be reminded of your part and ROW (Row 1- shortest , Row 3-tallest …)
	5	Check out a Flashlight (there are only 20, first come, first served)
	6	Sit in lines by class, like you do before school
6:15	7	Line up by Riser Seating Rows
	8	Walk into the Cafeteria
	9	Sing "Riddle Ree"
	10	Poem "The Lady"
	11	Song & Flashlight Routine "One Single Light"
	12	Song "God Bless the USA"
6;30	13	Walk off the risers
	14	Return Flashlights
	15	Go to Homeroom and Team Classrooms
	16	Have a nice evening

WHERE: Line up in the 5^th Grade Gym, PERFORM in the Hernandez Cafeteria

WHAT to wear: Hernandez Shirt, or Patriotic Shirt (Red, White, Blue) and jeans

WHAT to Bring: Small Flashlight

WHY: GET EXTRA CREDIT!!

One facet of 5^th Grade Music is VOCAL PERFORMANCE

It’s FUN!!!!

One Single Light 2 part version

This is the fancy version in 2 parts. Enjoy listening.