Elementary Music
Erin Balaam
Program Administrator, Educational Services
The performing arts curriculum enables students to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and expand their creative potential. The CUSD music program offers students in TK through sixth grade the building blocks of music education; rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, and musical heritage. Music instruction uses the hands-on implementation of listening, singing, playing, moving, reading, writing, exploring, creating, developing, and performing. Please contact the school site for more information regarding music schedules.
Choir/General Music consists of a singing/choral experience for all students in the TK - 4th grade. These students participate in choir/general music on a rotation by classroom teacher, approximately three months of the school year. When students are not in a choir rotation, they participate in Physical Education.
Band consists of band instrument instruction to students in 5th and 6th grade. Students sign up to participate in the school band at the beginning of the school year and participate for the entire school year.
Beginning Band is offered to 5th grade students for first year band instrument instruction.
Advanced Band is offered to 6th grade students in their second year of instrumental study or first year students with the willingness to catch up to their second year peers.
Students in grades 5 and 6, who elect to take music, must participate in Extended Day PE or Independent Study PE in order to meet the Educational Code requirement of 200 PE minutes every 10 school days. The Educational Code of California (EC Section 51210[g]) requires that, “Students in grades one through six…must be provided with physical education instruction with an emphasis upon the physical activities for the pupils that may be conducive to health and vigor of body and mind, for a total period of time of not less than 200 minutes each ten schooldays, exclusive of recesses and the lunch period.” Details regarding these programs are found on the band application.
22-23 Extended Day Program Calendar
2022-2023 District Music Events
Band Day at the CVHS vs Buhach Colony Football Game on September 23, 2022
Singsational - District Choral Concert on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 6:00 PM at the CVHS Gym
Bandtastic - District Band Concert on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 6:00 in the CVHS Gym
2022-2023 District Music Events
Band Day at CHS Football Game - September 29, 2023
Instrument Expo - Thursday, August 17, 2023
an opportunity for 5th and 6th graders to try out instruments with their parents before committing for the school year
Singsational - Tuesday, November 21, 2023 6:00 PM, CVHS Gym
District Choral Festival featuring 4th grade Honor Choir and choral students from all Junior Highs and High Schools
Bandtastic - Tuesday, March 26, 2023, 6:00 PM, CVHS Gym
District Band Concert featuring 6th through 12th grade bands.
Elementary Music Teachers and Schools
Mr. Devon James: Hidahl, Sinclear
Mr. Aaron Sorensen: Walter White, Westport
Mr. Damon Hunn: Caswell, Lucas
Mrs. Connie Sorensen: Adkison, Don Pedro
Mr. Jeffrey Beckton: La Rosa, Sam Vaughn
Mrs. Monica Twomey: Beaver, Carroll Fowler
Mrs. Ashley (Briar) Dias: Virginia Parks