Ren Walker

Highlighting Native American artists for November!

First day of barred instruments for 3rd grade! We’ve been practicing “October’s Here” with our voice and now get to add instruments to our song 🎵

@EWilliams2222_ and I are beyond excited to welcome our newest mustangs to @BrenMarPark_ES!!Our lead mentor, Stacy🐝, did a wonderful job of helping new staff get acclimated to all of the things that make BMP special! 🐴🐴🐴@FCPSR6 @fcpsnews

Our older kiddos love performance days! Great opportunity for students to show their peers any musical talent they practice outside of our classroom 🎹🎺🎤🩰

The 6th Grade Talent Show was AWESOME! Great job 6th grade! #OneAldrin @PrincipalWolfe @aldrineaglespta @FCPSRegion1 @fcpsnews #TalentShow

What a great day full of xylophones 🎶

What a great way to start our day with a body percussion warm up in music class! @MsWalkers_Music #OneAldrin @PrincipalWolfe @FCPSRegion1 @fcpsnews 🎶🎵

Finishing out our Women's History Month Artist Focus with Dolly Parton! This has been a wonderful month of learning about female artists. Did you know that Dolly Parton sang "I Will Always Love You" before Whitney Houston popularized it in 1992?

Ms. Bennetti's class excelled at our "Instruments of the Symphony Orchestra" Kahoot today! Our character is even an astronaut eagle for @AldrinEagles !

Video game music unit with my 4th grade exploration class! Looking into the history of video game music and how much progress has been made in the last ~50 years.

We love Ms. Walker! #OneAldrin #PositivityInAction @MsWalkers_Music @PrincipalWolfe @PosProject @fcpsnews

This week’s Artist Focus for Women’s History Month is Hildegard of Bingen! 3rd grade had a great time exploring music in Latin from the 1100s.

2nd grade earned a Free Choice Day for ending 3 separate classes with a NOTE for excellent behavior. Listed are all the options the students came up with for their class!

Examples of our 6th Grade Haiku project in conjunction with their poetry unit. Students listened to “Snow is Dancing” by Debussy and created haikus based on the piece.

For our Video Game and Film Music unit, students listened to different film music and described or drew what they thought the scene would look like!

First grade earned a free choice day and decided to play one of their favorite musical games: Doggie, Doggie Where’s Your Bone?

1st grade learning about our Hispanic Heritage Month Artist Focus for this week: Amaryn Olmeda!

Busy day with instruments! Starting recorder today for our 3rd and 4th graders then continuing our ukulele unit for my exploration classes!

Kindergarten has a blast today coloring pictures of John Philip Sousa while listening to his marches 🥁🎵

Can you find today’s imposters? Two of our crew mates have swapped places…