Nick Leonard

Happy New Year! I will no longer be posting content on this platform. If you would like to see what my students and I are up to, please check out the new GRES Music Website! #growinggreenfieldes #oneccps #kodaly🐉❤️🎼sites.google.com/ccpsnet.net/gr…

@principalhayes1 Thank you for taking such amazing care of my musical Greenfield dragons! They’re so lucky to have such great middle school music educators to learn from! 🐉❤️🎶

VMEA Blue Ribbon Award 2022-2023 for our Midlothian Middle School Musical Performing Arts team!! Big Shout Out to our Performing Arts Specialist Dr. Yohe for visiting our team of teachers and students today!! #livelikeamustang @oneccps

5th grade was tasked with working in groups to visually recreate the melodic contour of our Japanese folk song (and then perform it). Their musicianship has impressed me this year! 🐉❤️🎼 @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsPerform @ccpsinfo #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #oneccps

@Mr_SmallsMusic @ccpsPerform @WinterpockES Aura Lee! Bravo! ❤️🎶

Playing a duet with one of my students. What’s the name of this song? @ccpsPerform @WinterpockES #ukulele #musicteacher

MSU Kodály Institute truly transformed me as a music educator and a person. I’m so excited for June - come make music with us this summer! #kodaly #musiceducation 😊❤️🎶 msutexas.edu/academics/fine…

@SpringRunMusic My brain: “Words that start with L… lake…lion…Li-…” First grader: “LEOPOLD!” Me:

First graders played Alphabet soup to practice singing, playing steady beat, performing an AB form, and working on letter recognition. #musicclass #orff #oneccps #springrunfun

I was so honored to be invited to my alma mater by one of my heroes to give a presentation about Kodály! Her future educators were such an inspiring glimpse into the future of our field! They are so lucky to have her 🐉❤️🐑🎼 @GRES_Principal @ccpsPerform #kodaly #vcumusic

Kindergarten has LOVED the chance to be “conductors” during our vocal exploration warm-up! There’s nothing like peer modeling to help get you into “head voice!” 🐉❤️🎼 @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #vocalexploration

This award isn’t one of the reasons I teach, but what this parent wrote about me is. It makes me happy that the community can see the safe space we’ve created to make our music. I’ll continue growing Greenfield the best I can 🐉❤️🎼 @ccpsinfo #oneccps #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly

4th grade did a great job practicing new dotted quarter +eighth phrases by writing the notation and using error detection! Can you spot which color is the impostor? 👀🐉❤️🎼 @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform #kodaly #oneccps #growinggreenfieldes #musicliteracy

@HordeMr @ReamsRams @GRESDragons @rohdesign @hendrixart @PBL_Peyton @RobinARileyEdu @BrianCamposCCPS @MrsBBoone @MitchEarly CZ, SF, and OA are rockstars. What a horde you have this year! 😍🙌❤️

Nothing like marauding barbarians to spark student creativity. Note the “Ostrogoth goth riding a goth ostrich.” @ReamsRams @GRESDragons @rohdesign @hendrixart @PBL_Peyton @RobinARileyEdu @BrianCamposCCPS @MrsBBoone @MitchEarly

Day 1 of rehearsals for the actors in this year’s 5th grade winter program! A great morning filled with introductions and read-throughs from some excited dragons! 🐉❤️🎼🎬 #growinggreenfieldes #musiceducation #oneccps @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform

Thrilled about the new GIA additions I’ve made to my personal library post-VMEA! 😍🐉❤️🎼 #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #representationmatters

Had the BEST time reconnecting with colleagues, meeting new ones, listening to wonderful ensembles and learning ALL the things! VMEA 2022 is officially in the books! 🐉❤️🎼 #growinggreenfieldes #vmea #nafme #vemea #vcuarts

Putting our decoding skills to the test with some friendly competition 😍🙌 I spy some teams with the correct order of melodic patterns! Can you crack the code? 🐉❤️🎼 #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #oneccps @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform

4th grade learned the written notation for dotted quarter + eighth this week and sang it beautifully! Can you name the Russian folk song they’re singing? 🐉❤️🎼🌳#growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #birchtree #oneccps @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform

@EDUwithEmily Midwestern State University’s Kodály Institute msutexas.edu/academics/fine…

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The Greenfield dragons performed their hearts out during this year’s Veterans Day program. It was such a special day and I couldn’t be prouder of them! 🐉❤️🎼🇺🇸🎉 @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @rfoglesong @ccpsPerform #growinggreenfieldes #koday #oneccps

4th grade did a BEAUTIFUL job vocally improvising melodies with low la and choosing yoga poses. It always helps if we have some good lofi music to help us relax! 🐉❤️🎼 #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #differentiation #oneccps @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform

1st grade has done a great job practicing and improvising their own ta & tati patterns! We’re ready to learn the rhythmic notation next week! 🐉❤️🎼 #growinggreenfieldes #kodaly #soundbeforesymbol #oneccps @GRES_Principal @srburnham326 @ccpsinfo @ccpsPerform