Music In Our Schools Month!!!

March is Music In Our Schools Month!

Music In Our Schools Month or MIOSM is the National Association for Music Education's annual celebration which engages music educators, students, and communities from around the country in promoting the benefits of high quality music education programs in schools.

Music In Our Schools Month began as a single statewide Advocacy Day and celebration in New York in 1973, and has grown over the decades to become a month-long celebration of school music across the country.

To celebrate MIOSM, Banks County Primary will be doing a whole bunch of activities!

Each week, a music trivia question will be announced on the Morning Show, the morning news show that the principal hosts every morning, on Monday. Students from each grade will try to answer the question correctly by putting their answers in the ballot boxes by Friday of that week. I will draw two names of students with the correct answers from every grade to win a prize the following Monday when I announce the next trivia question!

This month, students will go home with 2 "Ask Me" sheets as part of the "I sang for someone I love!" program! If the student brings a note back from 2 people that they sang their "Ask Me" to, they will get a sticker!

March 23rd is our First Grade Program, titled "Our Musical Traditions," where our awesome first graders will be singing and dancing traditional folk dances from across the country!

The last week of march is our music informance week; it is officially "Bring Your Parent to Music Class" week! Parents are welcome to join their children in their music class to sing and dance and see exactly what it is we do in music each week! I can't wait to see you then!

We have a month packed full; I can't wait to get celebrating music in BCPS this month!