The First Grade Blues Band and the Kids Like Blues Music Project has been featured in newspapers, TV, and educational websites. Please see the “Making News” section of our website kidslikeblues.org to check it all out. The kids and parents are very proud to share their work with others..
First Graders going to college…how cool is that? On May 9 from 4:00-6:00 pm, the First Grade Blues Band from Garrison Elementary School in Oceanside, CA will perform at Cal State University San Marcos. (Check out the room we’ll be rocking in the above photo.) Members of the CSU College of Education, CSU professors and teaching candidates, Oceanside Unified School District members, student families, and Garrison staff will be part of the audience. KPBS education reporter Kyla Calvert will be on hand with a film crew to document the special event for a feature KPBS is doing on our work. The
Once we’ve used the music as a springboard to teach academic content standards, our goal is to take our work to completion by performing it onstage and recording it together in digital multitrack audio and video editing programs.
The students even learn how to operate programs like iMovie, Photoshop and Garage Band.
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So far our performances have included playing a street fair, for a large audience of staff and students at the Cal State San Marcos College of Education and on local TV news and KPBS TV (watch these performances on our videos page). We're a real band, and we're learning and rocking! We have about ten songs in our repertoire.
Click video still to watch the Kids Like Blues Band music video, "Sweet Home Chicago."
Click video still to view how our program works and details how we cover specific academic content standards.
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