UPCOMING EVENTS
DATE:	EVENT:	TIME:	LOCATION:
TBA	4th Grade Fall Mini-Concert	10:45 a.m.	Sterling Grade School
TBA	4th Grade Fall Mini-Concert	1:00 p.m.	Presbyterian Manor
Saturday, October 29	SCKMEA Elementary Honor Choir and Teacher Workshop	8:30 a.m.	Andover
Tuesday, November 29	4th Graders sing for Retired Teachers Association	12:45 p.m.	Methodist Church
Thursday, December 19	K-4 Christmas Program	7:00 p.m.	Culbertson Auditorium, Sterling College Campus
Friday, January 27	3rd Grade Kansas Day Program	TBA	Sterling Grade School
Friday, January 27	3rd Grade Kansas Day Program	TBA	Presbyterian Manor
Monday, April 9	3rd-6th Grade Music Memory Team presents program for Mutual Improvement Club	TBA	TBA
Thursday, April 19	3rd-6th Grade Music Memory Competition	TBA	Kansas State University
Tuesday, May 8	K-4 Spring Program	7:00 p.m.	Culbertson Auditorium, Sterling College Campus

Cindy Anthony began her teaching career in 1976 and has taught all levels of public school music.She is completing her 24th year as K-4 Music Instructor for USD #376. She also teaches Spanish 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 has served two terms as Elementary chairman for the South Central District of KMEA. She has twice been a district workshop presenter on the subject of "Music and Movement". She is on the State Board of the Kansas Choral Directors Association as co-chairman of the Summer Women's Honor Choir and is on the advisory board for the Kansas State University Music Symposium. 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.