General Music Program

Students in K-5 attend general music classes on a rotating schedule.  The general music program uses the most current Silver Burdett textbooks.  The music program is correlated with the Sunshine State Standards and the National Standards for Music.  Students sing, compose and play music using the Orff-Schulwerk technique.  General music classes have performed original and adapted musicals for the Sarasota Reading Festival.  One of the musicals that the students wrote and composed was based on the children's book, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and was featured at a state conference in Orlando.  General music classes participate in various school wide shows including the Holiday Program, the Kindergarten Hoe Down.

Mr. Charles Allen, Music Teacher

Bachelor of Music, Union University, Jackson TN.  Elementary Endorsement, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.  Level One Orff-Schulwerk, Georgia State University.  Level I, Level II, Level III, Creating Original Opera Training, Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York City.  AWARDS: Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year 1999, Music Teacher of the Year 2002, PALS Outstanding Project Award 1999 and Who's Who in America 2006.