“Welcome to Music! Glad You’re Here!  Gonna Do some singing! Gonna use our ears.  We are going to have a lot of fun because music time has just begun.  Welcome to Music! Glad you’re here.”

This is a song by Denise Gagne from Red Deer.  We sing it all together at the beginning of class.  It is one of our favorites.

I am so glad to be back to school and singing.  Over the past couple of years, we quickly discovered that music and making the arts is a valuable use of time.  It is valuable in so many ways.  It stretches our minds, exercises our brains, engages our soul, expresses our feelings when words can no longer.  Music soothes the spirit and lightens the heart.  Music was the thing that echoed around the world when there was eerie silence.  One often thinks of the scene from Italy, when it was all quiet and people, artists would take to their balcony to sing and share their extraordinary talent.  Or the different videos that were compiled as peopled still played music from their own homes and from around the world.  The explosion of music and art during the past few years was amazing.

We are back! We are back singing and making music is the music room in all of the ways that we have and enjoy!  It is a very exciting time here at school.  The beginning of a new school year is more exciting than New Year’s Eve in January.  The new school year with the weather still bright, the children all arriving with their summer glow and grown like weeds, makes it much more open for new experiences, new routines and new chapters. There is something about the rush of excitement at this time of year.  It is hard to put into words.  I am looking forward to all of the things coming in the music room this year and seeing all the students here once again!

Welcome to Music! Glad you’re here!