Have a Great Holiday!

This is our last post before the holiday, so we hope everyone has a great time. Ibu Yanti is off to Riau, Indonesia and Ms. Megan will be diving in and around Phuket, Thailand.

This week, we have three videos. The first is a compilation of some of our favorite pictures taken during the performance of The Wizard of Oz.

The second is a culmination video of the Kindergarten's Playing with the Classics (curriculum by Dr. Peggy Bennett) unit. I love seeing students enjoy classical music.

The third is an impromptu video that the Kindergarten insisted on recording after they started to learn Lava from the Pixar Short Film.

You can view all of the beautiful photos from The Wizard of Oz on the PRIS Website, or click on this link to go directly to the album.

Today in Kindergarten library, we had a guest-reader. Mr. Mark has become extremely popular amongst the children and they were so excited to have him read to them.

This week, students are finishing up their piano/iPad unit in music and their Bravery/Courage unit in Library.

After the holiday, the students will start several different units. All grades will start preparing for the end-of-year/end-of-school concert, tentatively titled "PRIS Final Farewell". This past week, students in grades 3-8 began to plan what that concert would look like.

Pre-K and Kindergarten students will begin a Rhythm Band unit--watch for videos on the YouTube Page.

Grades 1-2 will learn some basics of ukulele and recorder.

Grades 3-4 will also study recorder, with the option to continue on ukulele if they prefer.

And Grades 5-8 will do a joint Language Arts and Music unit involving poetry, lyrics, and composition, utilizing GarageBand, the keyboards, and other instrumentation.

Look for more posts, videos, recordings, and resources on the blog and PRIS Music & Library YouTube page (and subscribe!) and feel free to share with families. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram. The YouTube and Blog account will remain functional after the school closes, so feel free to keep sharing posts and videos with friends and family!

The Wizard of Oz--Behind the Scenes

It has been a busy week! Grade 1-8 students had two FABULOUS performances for The Wizard of Oz. It took a lot of work to get to this point--rehearsals, costumes, props, sets, etc. Below is a slideshow of all the amazing work we completed to get to those two performances:

We hope to have pictures from the show soon (they will be posted here, as well as on the school website). We will also let you know when the video is available.

Look for more posts, videos, recordings, and resources on the blog and PRIS Music & Library YouTube page (and subscribe!) and feel free to share with families. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram.

The Wizard of Oz

You're Invited...

Here is the REHEARSAL SCHEDULE for this weekend and next week. This is the schedule for ALL CAST (all students in Grades 1-8). Snacks will be provided Saturday-Tuesday and lunch provided on Wednesday:

Date	Time	Tentative Agenda	Notes
SATURDAY, March 5	1:00-4:00 p.m.	Scenes 4, 7 and 8	Snack provided, bring water bottle
SUNDAY, March 6	1:00-4:00 p.m.	Stumble-through, add set and props, Block cyclone	Snack provided, bring water bottle
MONDAY, March 7	3:00-5:00 p.m.	Stumble-through, block curtain call	Snack provided, bring water bottle
TUESDAY, March 8	2:00-5:00 p.m.	Run-through with lights, sound and costumes	Snack provided, bring water bottle
WEDNESDAY, March 9	*8:15-10:00 a.m.*-optional 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.- required rehearsal	*8:15-10:00am- optional solar eclipse viewing party* (see below) 10:00 a.m.- Run Through 11:30 a.m.- Notes 12:00 p.m.- Lunch 1:00 p.m.- Dress Rehearsal with costumes 2:30 p.m.- Notes, review	*For solar eclipse viewing party, breakfast provided* Lunch provided, bring water bottle
THURSDAY, March 10	During school	AIS/TOTAL Performance 8:50 a.m.- Costumes/Make-up 10:20 a.m.- Performance 11:35 a.m.- Reset for night performance	Please eat a full breakfast before school
THURSDAY, March 10	5:00 p.m.	Community Performance 5:00 p.m.- Costumes/Make-up 6:10 p.m.- Pre-Show Meeting 6:30 p.m.- Performance 8:00 p.m.- Cast Party (PRCC Patio)	Please eat dinner before the performance

Hello Parents and Staff,

As some of you may already know, Balikpapan will have visibility for a total solar eclipse on Wednesday, March 9th. We do not have school that day, but there is a scheduled play practice for all cast starting at 10 am. Therefore, we are inviting you to a viewing party at 8:15 am. We will meet on the soccer field and view the eclipse using viewers that 5-8th grade students have made. After the eclipse, the students will be offered a light breakfast snack and juice. After, the students will attend rehearsal.

Since the Kindergarteners and Pre-Schoolers are not involved in the play, they are still invited but must come with a parent.

This is not a requirement but it would be nice to experience this (sometimes) once in a lifetime event. We hope the weather and clouds work in our favor!

Please RSVP to me or Ms. Megan by Monday, March 7th so we know how many treats to have.

Thank you!

Kate

All Cast Costume Fitting

Also, this past assembly, one of our talented musicians and actors shared some work he'd been doing outside of school.

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Two Weeks Out

Our video this week comes from Grades 1-4, who tell us from whom they "caught the kindness bug".

We continued our kindness unit this week by discussing how we can be kind to the plants, animals, and insects in our environment.

In music, we are hard at work on the iPads and pianos. All students in Grades Pre-K through Grade 8 will be uploading a video to their personal blogs in the next few weeks. Be on the look-out! Students in K-8 are using an iPad application called Piano Maestro, which is free to PRIS students since they already have accounts. Grades 3-8 should know their account information and the application can be used at home. If your student is in Kindergarten, 1^st or 2^nd grade, please contact Ms. Megan if you are interested in using the iPad app. at home.

We are two weeks away from our performance of Wizard of Oz. We took an all-cast picture this week:

The assistants and teachers have been hard at work finishing costumes, props, and accessories this week, as well!

And we have been busy at all-cast rehearsals.

We hope you will join us.

Musical Rehearsals for Grades 3-8 are underway. We're getting close! Here is a copy of the Rehearsal Calendar for the remainder of the rehearsal process (from now to March 11). You can also visit the right side of this blog, where there is a Google Calendar Rehearsal Schedule. If you press the + sign in the bottom right, you can add it to your own Google Calendar.

Look for more posts, videos, recordings, and resources on the blog and PRIS Music & Library YouTube page (and subscribe!) and feel free to share with families. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram.

The Kindness Bug

Another video from Kindergarten this week as they demonstrate their new warm-up song, Head & Shoulders, Baby and their new classical piece of music, Flight of the Bumblebee. For the latter, students are pretending to be bees and flowers, getting pollen from the flowers and taking it back to the hive.

Students are still working hard at their piano and iPad unit. All students in Grades Pre-K through Grade 8 will be uploading a video to their personal blogs in the next few weeks. Be on the look-out! Students in K-8 are using an iPad application called Piano Maestro, which is free to PRIS students since they already have accounts. Grades 3-8 should know their account information and the application can be used at home. If your student is in Kindergarten, 1^st or 2^nd grade, please contact Ms. Megan if you are interested in using the iPad app. at home.

In library, students are "catching the kindness bug". If a student noticed someone else doing something kind with humility, they write it on a lady-bug and display it on the library windows. Stop by the hallway outside the library to see what acts of kindness our students have noticed.

This week, we had our first rehearsal with the entire cast, Grades 1-8, and it went amazingly! Students and teachers are also busy making props, altering costumes, preparing accessories, and painting sets. This is a whole-school effort!

Musical Rehearsals for Grades 3-8 are underway. We're getting close! Here is a copy of the Rehearsal Calendar for the remainder of the rehearsal process (from now to March 11). You can also visit the right side of this blog, where there is a Google Calendar Rehearsal Schedule. If you press the + sign in the bottom right, you can add it to your own Google Calendar.

Look for more posts, videos, recordings, and resources on the blog and PRIS Music & Library YouTube page (and subscribe!) and feel free to share with families. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram.