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Welcome to music!

The students in K-8 performed wonderfully in the KCDS 2010 spring show entitled "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" with a focus on visual artists. Even our kindergarten students can sing the names of 64 famous artists, in alphabetical order, set to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" theme. We have good memories of the finale when middle schoolers Lizzy danced, Ben spoke, and Grace led the rest of the school's students in singing "The Artist Teaches Us All."

During the last month, students composed music on electronic keyboards, improved theory mastery with activities in the computer lab, learned lummi stick musical routines, and prepared our traditional "farewell" song which was sung to each individual 8th grader. The 5th graders, as is tradition, accompanied on hand chimes while we all sang and signed:

               Friends, we will remember you, think of you, wish for you

               The best. And when the year is through, we'll still remember you.