UPCOMING EVENTS
DATE:	EVENT:	TIME:	LOCATION:
Thursday, October 25	4th Grade Mini-Concerts	11:00 a.m.	Sterling Grade School Gym
		1:00 p.m.	Presbyterian Manor
Tuesday, November 27	4th Grade Retired Teachers Association Program	12:45 p.m.	United Methodist Church
Monday, December 10	K-4 Christmas Program	7:00 p.m.	Culbertson Auditorium
Tuesday, January 29	3rd Grade Kansas Day Program	10:00 a.m.	Sterling Grade School Gym
		1:00 p.m.	Presbyterian Manor
Thursday, May 8	K-4 Spring Program	7:00 p.m.	Culbertson Auditorium

Cindy Anthony began her teaching career in 1976 and has taught all levels of public school music.She is completing her 20th year as K-4 Music Instructor for USD #376. She also teaches Spanish I and II at the high school and serves as vocal music assistant/accompanist for grades 5-12.  
                                                  
She received both her Bachelor and Master's Degrees from Northwestern Oklahoma State University at Alva and her certification in Secondary Spanish Education from Fort Hays State University. She is the choir director and organist at St. Paul Catholic Church in Lyons. A member of KMEA and ACDA, she served for two years as the elementary music chairperson of the South Central District of KMEA. She was the Outstanding Elementary Music Educator for the KMEA South Central Distict in 2005-2006.

The K-4 Elementary music curriculum at Sterling Grade School is based on the National and State Standards for music education:

1. Singing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.   

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.

5. Reading and notating music.

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music .                 

7. Evaluating music and music performance.                  

8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.                  

9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.                  

Students are sequentially taught the musical elements of pitch, melody, rhythm, meter, tone color, form, and all the sub-divisions of each of these main elements. The school district has provided enough mallet instruments for one per student in each class, allowing the teacher to more easily design the curriculum from the national standards. The students K-4 perform in two concerts a year, that include a musical in December and a less formal performance in the spring. Individual classes often perform outside the school for local civic organizations throughout the school year.