4th Grade Folk Dance Festival
Thursday, April 14 2016 at 7 pm
Monrovia Elementary Cafeteria/Gym
Join us for an unforgettable cultural experience! You will see folk dances from Brazil, West Africa, Mexico, Japan and Italy performed by the Monrovia Elementary 4th graders. Then we will bring it “back home again” with songs and dances from our home state of Indiana.
Wear comfortable shoes so that you don’t miss the opportunity to folk dance with your child and community!
Thursday, April 14 2016 at 7 pm
Monrovia Elementary Cafeteria/Gym
Join us for an unforgettable cultural experience! You will see folk dances from Brazil, West Africa, Mexico, Japan and Italy performed by the Monrovia Elementary 4th graders. Then we will bring it “back home again” with songs and dances from our home state of Indiana.
Wear comfortable shoes so that you don’t miss the opportunity to folk dance with your child and community!
4th Grade Goals:
- Perform and improvise on recorder
- Echo, decode, read and write simple rhythms and melodic patterns
- Sing, alone and with others, tunefully
- Learn songs in other languages
- Perform a variety of folk dances, including those from Indiana
- Perform question and answer improvisation
- Create simple ostinati accompaniments on barred instruments
- Perform various borduns on barred instruments
- Perform and improvise on recorder
- Echo, decode, read and write simple rhythms and melodic patterns
- Sing, alone and with others, tunefully
- Learn songs in other languages
- Perform a variety of folk dances, including those from Indiana
- Perform question and answer improvisation
- Create simple ostinati accompaniments on barred instruments
- Perform various borduns on barred instruments