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A New inovative MUSIC PROGRAM FOR ALAMOS SONORA, MEXICO SCHOOLS

Why Int’l Jazz day Foundation’s thinks It’s Important to Teach Literacy Through Music Education in Your Classroom?

Language literacy is arguably the most important skill a child will acquire during preschool and elementary school years. Comprehending concepts taught in social studies and sciences, or even understanding a word problem in math class, all depend on reading fluency. Unfortunately, in the push to ready children for careers that depend on knowledge of these fields, many school districts have cut the field that could hold the key to them all– Music. IJD Foundation plan to use this new music program to

teach Spanish childrens Jazz and English at the same time.

Using Jazz Music to Teach Language Some schools help students transition into a calm learning environment by playing classical music,but we will use Jazz. If your school does not do this through the public address system, consider doing so in the classroom. Once your students are ready to learn, consider teaching a lesson where music and language meet.

A World of Musical and Literary Meaning

KEEP MUSIC AFLOAT IN ALAMOS Some of these lesson ideas involve students pairing musical selections with specific emotions. These responses may vary, and this is an opportunity to broaden the discussion. As music and language are cultural products, it’s important to let students speak the truth of their native musical and literary cultures.

A piece that is intended to communicate happiness might share elements with music intended for sad occasions. A student isn’t “wrong” for recognizing that a dance tune’s melody is similar to that of a funeral hymn they know. This can open a discussion on how great literary works can spark centuries of often conflicting debate on intent and import.

Studies on the effect of music on cognitive abilities may select certain types of music, but these may serve to represent a broad range of effective music samples. The “Mozart effect”, the result of a study that showed temporarily improvement in cognitive abilities in adults who listened to works composed by Mozart for piano, sparked a great deal of excitement and the launch of recordings marketed toward the parents of young children. But don’t feel restricted to music used in studies with positive results. The results found for one style of music often carry over to other styles that share some basic elements. The results of a study that used a music style with a slow tempo and strings playing softly might hold for a style with woodwinds at a similar tempo. This Class of 2016 at Academy of Execellent (NSA out reach program) most of them had never played a real instrument before Doc Jones introduced one to them.

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KEEP MUSIC AFLOAT IN ALAMOS NEW ARTS PROGRAM, IS AIM AT REDUCTING LITERACY AND TEACHING ENGLISH K THUR 12 SCHOOLS IN ALAMOS SONORA MEXICO

K - 12

For K-12 Schools: In-School

Int’l Jazz Day Foundation offers fun and imaginative presentations that bring music to life

through songs, instruments, and storytelling for grades K-12. Each program provides a window into historical periods and places, tapping into themes directly relevant to the social and cultural issues in today’s world like (“Black Lives Matter”) with the goal to use arts education to address the Literacy problem Sonora Mexico. With extensive research and culturally diverse content, the new Keep Music Alafloat program will be presented to thousands of young people across Sonora Mexico in school districts where there is a known problem with Literacy problem poor attendents. Based upon IJDF new entrenched slogan, “Keep Music Afloat in Alamos,” this Arts Program will be offered to every student from K thur 12 that is having problems with reading and want to learn a second language English, from that premise, even at the earliest age this program will be offer with a Jazz under tone. First grade students who are continuing with our “Wee Jazz Program”, as well as those in the second grade experience a certain amount of “Jazz Music history” while they are exposed to hands on instrumentation. During this course, traditional games and folk songs from many cultures will help students begin to read and write simple melodic and rhythmic patterns and read basic storys about Jazz music in english and spanish. Our thought process, if a toddler can retain the words and tune of a catchy TV or radio commercial or a song heard regularly on their parents’ car radio in transport, or certainly they can learn to reproduce those sounds. Young Students participants will be introduced to and regularly exposed to hands-on experiences with various instruments and books about those instruments. Utilizing the Suzuki, Orff,and Kodály, and the Doc Jones methods, our instructors will be using Jazz as the foundation under these traditional folk songs under the direction a staff the are jazz musicians , have each studied applicable segments of these methods and incorporated some of them into the “Wee Jazz Program”. Participants explore how music tells stories in the traditional flavor of New Orleans and will be introduced to Jazz through a lively unit on that foundation. Further, Wee Jazz Participants will lean to read better in Spanish and English:

IJD FOUNDATION NEW MUSIC PROGRAM WILL BE USING JAZZ TO ADDRESS LITERACY IN THE ALAMOS SCHOOLS AS WELL AS TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, TO HISPANIC KIDS

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KINDERGARDEN

a) Singing as a class [the class is learning two song “For My Little Girl” and “In The “Jungle” b) Hearing tones/pitches by singing the songs the class will begin to hear the pitches change and the tones moving around. c) Keeping rhythm[have the class to clap along with the Cd as they sing the songs] d) Musical chairs [we use this game to get the students to learn to do more than one thing at a time.

While they are singing and trying to wait on the music to stop and run for a chair, that make them learn to Sing and move at the same time]

Learning English and the American kids learning Spanish through IJDF Wee Jazz program

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GRADES 1 - 3

a) Singing together in English & Spanish The Class is learning to count up to 10 and singing two song that have them count and sing in Spanish b) Hearing tones/pitches c) Teach students rhythm/tempo[

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GRADES 4 - 5

a) Learn to play recorders[ We introduces the class to the recorder by showing them the first 3 note on the Recorder B,,A, G b) Learn to play rhythms with drum sticks c) Introduce various instruments to students [Trumpet, Trombone, flute] d) Begin reading music [Learning to names of the lines and Spaces of a staff] e) Sing as a chorus The class is learning Two songs from sister Act Joyful and If you want to be somebody]

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GRADES 6 - 8

a) Play rhythms with drum sticks b) Learn to play recorders to train ears to hear pitch c) Teach students to read music d)Teach beginning music vocabulary e) Sing as a chorus f) Introduce various musical instruments to students g) Small group workshops for each instrument

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STUDENT LIFE

a). Individual instrument classes and workshops b Strings (including violin, cello, guitar) c)Drumming includes marching and band drums d) Woodwinds include: Saxophone,Flute & Clarinet e)Teach students how to play as a band f)Identify accelerated students, check out instruments for homework and practice time g)Instruct how to sing in union as a chorus

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Engaging vocal and instrumental demonstrations by professional musicians Interactive group discussion and hands-on participation for all ages Customized residencies Activities designed for academic standards in music, history, geography, and world languages Tailored content for large or small classes and assemblies Educator study guides for the classroom Minimal setup and production requirements

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A FUN GAME THAT TEACHES OUR KIDS MORE THAN JUST READING MUSIC

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IJD FOUNDATION OUT REACH PROGRAM OFFER:

Engaging vocal and instrumental demonstrations by professional musicians Interactive group discussion and hands-on participation for all ages Customized residencies Activities designed for academic standards in music, history, geography, and world languages Tailored content for large or small classes and assemblies Educator study guides for the classroom Minimal setup and production requirements

Visual & Performing Arts

Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM Carlos Palomares, District Visual and Performing Arts Program Director, +52-647-104-0446 Administrative Assistant, District elementary schools provide a rich variety of visual and performing arts experiences for Kindergarten through eight grade students. Students continue to develop artistic skills in middle school arts electives and after school classes. We are looking for Alamos ars programs to offers a broad range of arts classes including Photography, Computer Art, Afro-Jazz Dance, Modern Dance, Drama, Advanced Theater Projects, Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band, Guitar, Chorus. Thank you to Scottsdale Sister Cities, Presidente Omar Salas, and The Hotel Association for supporting the 1st International Jazz Day Festival that will help fund these programs. Keep Music Afloat and art Programs.

International Jazz Day Foundation will raise $50,000 annually to fund 4 schools in Alamos elementary middle school with Keep Music Afloat & Wee Jazz Programs, as well as create a visual and performing arts in those schools.

International Jazz Day foundation

K-12 Music WEE JAZZ Program K – Second Grade: Several schools provide weekly music classes with instruction in singing, rhythm, composition and playing pitched percussion instruments. Third Grade: All third grade students attend weekly music classes. The curriculum is based on Orff-Schulwerk methodology which includes singing, movement, rhythm, solfege, note reading, recorders and pitched percussion instruments. At the end of the school year, band and orchestra instruments are demonstrated in preparation for beginning instrumental music in fourth grade. Recorders are $5.00.

Fourth and Fifth Grades: After an extended period of sampling among violins, violas, utes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones, percussion, guitar and chorus, fourth graders choose chorus or the

instrument they wish to study. Fifth graders continue with chorus or the instrument studied in fourth grade. Classes are held twice a week during the school day. Both grades perform at school concerts. Fifth graders have the opportunity of participating in the Performing Arts Showcase in March and attending the Jazz & Urban Arts Summit for fifth graders at Casa de la Cultura under the direction of Payo and Doc Jones

Sixth Grade: The

middle schools have sixth grade bands open to all brass, wind and percussion students and 6-8 Orchestras open to all strings players. Middle school music classes, including chorus (at Cobach under the direction of Ramon) meet before school, zero period.

Seventh and

Eighth Grades: 7-8 Bands, 6-8 Orchestra, Chorus at Cobach, and Modern Music at

meet zero period offering students moderately challenging compositions and ensemble skill development. After school music classes including Jazz Band and tradition music at Casa de la Cultura are open to 6th-8th graders. At middle school, evening concerts are scheduled during the school year and ensembles participate in the Performing Arts Showcase in March of each year. Some bands and orchestras compete in regional music festivals. There is a Momentum and Encouragement Performing Arts Camp Retreat at th in July 2017.

WITH MUSIC ON THEIR MIND THERE’S NO TIME FOR CRIME (CON MUSICA EN SU MENTE MO HAY TIEMPO PARA EL CRIMEN)

9-12 graders may choose from the following Music electives: Chamber Orchestra, Concert

Orchestra, Concert Band, Pep Band, Lab Band I, Lab Band II, Jazz Ensemble, Guitar, Chorus and AP Music Theory. The ensembles will hold regular evening concerts and participate in the Performing Arts Show case and competitive festivals in the Alamos Area and beyond though Sonora. Information on the award-winning “Keep Music Afloat in Alamos” Jazz program will be available on www.keepmusicafloat,net.

A strongly articulated jazz music program from grades three through twelve encourages and supports students to achieve at the highest levels. In early April, 2017 150 musicians from IJDF will perform in four groups Band at the Alamos 1st Int’l Jazz Day Festival. This is the first time ever that four IJDF groups will performed at a Int’l Jazz Day festival, and all will come out of winning compitetion. Concert Band earned three Excellents and one Superior. Concert Orchestra earned four Excellents. Bands, chorus and orchestras from the three Berkeley middle schools also participated in the 2013 CMEA Festival, with ratings given from Excellent to Superior. In the spring , just two days after winning the combo division at the Reno Jazz Festival, and a month after winning the same division at the prestigious Monterey NextGen Jazz Festival, Arizona High’s Combo A was named as the High School Combo of the Year by 504Magazine. This is the number one jazz trade magazine in the US. The the Tucson High students outplayed groups from across the nation. This is the second year in a row that Tucson’s Jazz Combo A has won both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Downbeat Magazine Award.

Keep Music Afloat In Alamos Standards-Based Music Program: Music is an integral part of human experience. Used in celebrations, rituals and everyday life, it expresses the heights and depths of human feelings and emotions, the joys and the sorrow encountered by all. Significantly, the study of music combines human emotional experience and intellectual cognition. Music teachers follow the AZ Standards in Music when developing curriculum and assessments. One of the greatest values of a comprehensive music program is that it allows all students to develop fully those qualities that will help them understand and enjoy life. It provides a means for creativity and self-expression. Through music they learn that their thoughts and feelings can be communicated non-verbally by composing and improvising music using higher-order thinking processes, such as those involved in skill mastery, analysis and synthesis.

Donations to enhance our program are always welcome. Checks, cash, credit cards may be used

to donate to the Music Fund c/o the NextStudent Academy/Arizona Community Fund Foundation, 602-524-7998. If you have an instrument in playable shape you would like to donate to the program, contact the Music Office at wijo2341@aol.com. You will receive a letter from the NextStudent Academy Board for your income tax files.

International Jazz Day Foundation Visual Arts K-12

Students are encouraged to express their knowledge, ideas and creativity through all forms of visual art, including drawing, painting, photography and three-dimensional arts. Elementary classroom teachers encourage skill building and several schools have a credentialed art teacher or teaching artist on staff who guides students through standards based projects on a weekly basis. Some after school programs include visual art classes.

Each middle school offers standards-based visual art courses as electives during the school day.

Student’s build on skills learned at the elementary grades when exploring portraiture, color, design, still life drawing, print-making and ceramics. Elementary and middle school art is always on exhibit at the schools. Every odd year the IJD Foundation will hosts a district-wide visual art show grades K-8 where student work from each school is on display. The next K-8 exhibit at the Cobach School will be in March 2017; reception on Casa de la Culturaunder the direction of Kathrine offers a very extensive selection of Arts courses including drawing and painting, several levels of black and white (darkroom) and digital photography, various levels of ceramics, print-making, sculpture and AP Studio Art. In addition to inschool gallery exhibits, IJDF student work is shown each spring at the Bentley Gallery in Phoenix. The Arts and Humanities Academy, one of the small schools at Phoenix High School, provides the opportunity for students to learn in core subject areas through various art forms while personally developing artistically. www.nextstudentmusic.com

Dance K-12

Dance is a regular elective at several elementary schools as well as the middle schools. Dance is also a popular choice among the classes offered in the after school programs K-8. The high school offers classes in Afro-Haitian, Modern and Hip-Hop. Advanced students present a show of their own choreographed pieces in the spring.

The middle schools have vibrant theater programs, presenting two or more plays, some student written. Some middle school productions are a collaboration between the drama, dance and music departments. There are levels of high school theater classes for the beginning through advanced student. Both plays and musicals are staged along with student written and produced drama. Busloads of Arizona High School students representing the Dance, Drama and Music Departments travel to all three middle schools for a one hour performance. Designed to present the eighth graders (who will be entering NSA in the fall) with the variety of artist involvement available at IJDF, Arts on the Run MCs encourage students to not only be open to the many options for artistic expression at the high school, but also share the pride and sense of family students find when they become a member of a performing arts group at AZ High.

Partnerships In addition to the International Jazz Day Orchestra and NextStudent Performing Arts Camp, teachers’ classrooms with information and hands on experiences before the students see the live performance.

More information.

KEEP MUSIC AFLOAT IN ALAMOS NEW INOVATIVE MUSIC PROGRAM Keyboard & Recoder Method level 1

Some parents are surprised by the way we teach music notation with a Jazz undertone, so an explanation is in order. To do this, let’s examine the history of music notation; In the old days, (that’s the really old days, medieval times), the first seeds of what eventually became our musical notation system were planted. European monks who wanted to teach people how to sing hymns pioneered this system. The first notes were called “neumes” and they were placed on a staff of 4 lines. The higher notes were placed higher on the staff, and the lower notes were placed lower on the staff. Simple,right? Eventually a fifth line was added to the staff, and the neumes were displaced by the notes we use today.

However, with the introduction of keyboard instruments, an interesting problem--Game about. On the keyboard, notes of higher pitch are not physically “higher” on the keyboard like they are on the music staff.

Instead, they are to the placed to the right. In the same way,lower notes are not physically lower, they are to the left. This has proven to be a very confusing concept for generations of keyboard students to grasp.

Rather than frustrate students by resorting to the rote memorization used by traditional methods, we use a system of markers that allows students to see the connection between the notes on the staff and the keys on the keyboard. This is not a new concept. Educators have been placing markers on the keyboard which correspond to the notes on the staff since the 19th century. However, we feel our version of the concept is the most convenient and simplest for kids to understand and use immediately.

Your child will be given a set of adhesive tabs which he or she will apply to the piano or keyboard. Our tabs come with a glue strength that will make them sticky enough so they won’t come off with playing, yet still easy enough to remove when your child has outgrown the need for them. There are 9 tabs, one for each line and space of the staff. In level 1.3, the students will start removing the tabs, one tab each week, so when the entire course is finished, they will not need the tabs on the keys anymore.

This way of learning to read music makes what was once a frustrating and difficult experience as easy as pie! And, unlike our adhesive tapes, this knowledge will “stick” with your child for a lifetime of fun and enjoyable music making!

About www.reachandteachtoday.com IJDF Online fun way to learn www.reachandteachtoday.com What can you do at reachandteachtoday.com.com? You can listen to new songs. You can hear what the songs sound like when played perfectly on the keyboard. You can also hear a clip from the original song.

When you choose a song to play, you can download the music for your new song!

Not only that, you can check out the elements toy store and see the entire cool prizes you can get when you turn in your songbooks! You can also see _videos of great Elements students playing their songs at competitions and: contests, and keep up with all the keyboard news. Best of all, reachandteachtoday.com is free to all students enrolled in Pearson keyboard club! Get your parent’s permission and check it out today!

How to register To sign up, follow these simple steps.

1) Make sure you get your parent’s permission. You should never get on the Internet unless your parents know about it!!!

2) Go to www.reachandteachtoday.com. Make sure you spell it right!

3) Click your mouse where it says “Student workshop.”

4) On your first visit, you will need to register. Click the link that says, “Need to register?”

5) Follow the instructions to pick your username and password. Make sure you write them down someplace where you can find them! Save them! Don’t lose them.

6) You will need to enter your signup code. Your teacher will write it in here

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY FOUNDATION Online Music,math & Reading Classes

Keep Music Afloat in Alamos will be the top choice for online music, Math, Reading ,& music classes and online music lessons. Starting with an introduction to math and Reading, you will be exposed to the history and detailed workings of music including Jazz melody and song structure. In a course dedicated to reducing the litercey in the Alamos schools system. Our award-winning courses will be authored and taught by industry experts that have been teaching for many years.

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