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document.write('<style type="text/css">#dates li { padding-bottom:7px; font-size:12px; top:0px; }</style><tr><td align=left valign=top colspan=2><center><br><H3><u>2012-2013 Important Dates</u></H3></center><font size=2><UL id="dates"><li>November 8, 2012 6:30pm <li>Second Grade Performance \"Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!\" <br><br>February 6 and 13, 2013 8:30am <li>Third Grade Demonstration <br><br>April 25, 2013  6:30pm <li>Fifth Grade Performance \"Camp Steeple Run\"</ul></font><p>&nbsp;</p></td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td align=left valign=top width="300"><center><BR><H3><u>About the instructor...</u></H3></center><font size="2"><b>Vicki Derybowski</b><p>Coming soon!</p><BR><BR></font> </td><td align=left valign=top cellpadding=5 width="300"><center><BR><H3><u>About the program...</u></H3></center><font size="2"><p>Music Education at Steeple Run Elementary</p><p>What happens in the music classroom? </p><p>Welcome to the music room! Music education at Steeple Run Elementary is based on things children like to do, such as sing, chant rhymes, clap, dance, and keep a beat! Children will hear and make music first, and then read and write it later. This is the same way we all learned our language. The music classroom is non-competitive, where the goal is to make good music with others. Children will spend time making and creating music, and when they want to write down what they have created, music literacy happens. </p><p>The musical materials that are used in the music classroom include poems, folk songs, rhymes, games, and dances. We use unpitched instruments such as hand drums, bells, sticks, tambourines, maracas, and woodblocks to accompany our music making. Additionally, special melody instruments, called xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels are used. These pitched-percussion instruments, when played together create a beginning ensemble of students, teaching them to be sensitive listeners and considerate participants. </p><p>The goal is to give children a lifetime love of music, and the skills to pursue it. Learning is meaningful only if it brings satisfaction to the learner, and satisfaction arises from the ability to use acquired knowledge for the purpose of creating. </p><p>Music education is important because it helps in developing the whole child, connecting intellectual and emotional development. Here are some websites where you can learn more about music education philosophy. <br/>	American Orff-Schulwerk Association www.aosa.org<br/>	Music Educators National Conference www.menc.org <br/>	Organization of American Kodaly Educators www.oake.org</p></font> </td></tr>')
document.write('<tr><td colspan=2 align=center valign=middle><font size="2"><br> For more information about this school, please visit: <A href="http://schools.naperville203.org/steeple/">http://schools.naperville203.org/steeple/</a></font><br>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></font></div>')