Spring Concert 2017

Our spring concert will be held on Thursday, May 4th, 2017 at 7 p.m. in our school's cafeteria.  There will be performances by the Forestville Road chorus, percussion ensemble, 4th grade recorder ensemble, and percussionists from the Knightdale High School band.  We look forward to seeing many of our parents and students there!

Mimi Herman at Forestville Road: 4/3/2017

Mimi Herman will be at Forestville Road on Monday, April 3rd, 2017 to conduct a poetry workshop for our 4th grade students.  The purposes of her workshops are to develop students’ abilities to use the techniques of poetry and to improve writing across the curriculum. She will be working to develop their understanding of imagery, line breaks, and stanza breaks.  They will also learn to use the “writer’s movie camera,” which records images using all five senses. Lastly, she will help students learn to translate personal experience and imagination into the writing of poetry. We are looking forward to having Mimi here at Forestville!

Number Drummer Workshop

Today I attended a Number Drummer workshop at the United Arts Council's office located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.  Troy Kryzalka provided teachers with many tools to help them use music to teach mathematical concepts related to counting, multiplication, division, addition, money, patterns, skip counting, fractions, probability, ratios, and algebra.  I am looking forward to sharing these strategies with the students of Forestville in the future.

Percussion Ensemble

Students in our 4th and 5th grade percussion ensemble have been working hard to prepare for our upcoming spring concert on Thursday, May 4th, 2017 at 7 p.m.  Members of this ensemble have been practicing bucket accompaniments to arrangements of various popular songs.  Below you can see pictures of students practicing at one of our weekly rehearsals.

4th Grade: Recorders

Our 4th graders have been learning how to play the song "Hot Cross Buns" on recorder in music class. To practice at home, students can watch this video.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Music of the Civil Rights Movement

During these days surrounding the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, students have been learning about music of the American civil rights movement and how spirituals played an influential role in uniting people for the cause of fighting inequality in the United States.  Students in grades K-5 have been singing songs featured in the Spotlight on Music textbook series that are dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contributions to society.  Some of the spirituals that students performed, discussed, and analyzed are "Down By the Riverside", "I'm on My Way", and "We Shall Overcome".  An arrangement of the well-known spiritual, "We Shall Overcome", is featured in the video below.  We hope that everyone at Forestville has a great MLK holiday on the 16th as they celebrate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Wendell Middle School Band Visit

On Tuesday, December 19th, 2016, the Wendell Middle School Band came to perform for our 5th graders.  They skillfully played many holiday selections and our students thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Our 5th graders also got a sneak peak of the Wendell Middle School fight song that many of them will learn when they attend Wendell Middle next year.   We were extremely excited to see FRES alumni performing in the band with Mrs. Slade.  Mrs. Slade is doing a phenomenal job of producing distinguished performers at Wendell Middle and we are grateful that they took the time to stop by and provide us with holiday entertainment.  We are looking forward to their visit next year!