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Archway Trivium East

December Concert

At: Palm Valley Church

431 N Litchfield Rd,

Good Year, AZ 85338

First and Second Grade: December 8, 5:30-6:30pm

Students must be at church by 4:30pm

Third through Fifth Grade: December 10, 5:30pm-6:30pm

Students must be at church by 4:30pm-5:30pm

Attire:

Semi‐formal Events Dress Code There are specific, semi‐formal dress requirements for special events, including periodic fine arts concerts. Concert dress is, for boys and girls, white and black. Boys wear white collared dress shirts with black slacks, black belt, black socks, and black dress shoes. Girls wear a white blouse with a black skirt or black dress slacks and black dress shoes (open‐toed shoes and reasonable heels are permitted.

The semi‐formal dress code for young men is: dress slacks (no jeans or patched pocket pants), a collared dress shirt, dark socks, dress shoes (no sneakers or sandals) No dyed hair or hats. Hair should be trimmed appropriately.

The semi‐formal dress code for young women is as follows: modest‐length skirts or dresses (no shorter than the uniform skirt), or appropriately fitting dress slacks; bare midriffs are not acceptable. Modestly‐cut sleeveless tops/dresses are allowed; ladies may not wear strapless, spaghetti‐strap, or tank tops. Girls should wear dress shoes. No flip‐flops. No dyed hair.

Week Thirteen Newsletter

Dear Parents,

This week, First and Second Grade will continue to explore percussion instruments in traditional music, and Third through Fifth Grade will continue learning about the Classical Period and Mozart. All are review prior knowledge of rhythm and basic notation.

Don't forget to put December 8 at 6:00pm on your calendar for 1-2 Grade and December 10 at 6:00pm for 3-5th Grade.

Music Explorers Club continues to meet Mondays at 3:30pm-4:15pm, and Music club on Tuesdays from 3:30pm-4:30pm.

Dr. Janet Norman

Music Club: Recording Link for 'Tis the Season

Hello Music Club participants,

Here is the link to the choral recording for 'Tis the Season

'Tis The Season

Enjoy!

Dr. Norman

Week twelve newsletter

Dear Parents and scholars,

Performance time is coming sooner than we think! Performance dates are December 8 for grades 1 and 2 at 6:00pm and December 10 for grades 3, 4 and 5 at 6:00pm. Students will be expected to be there at 5:00pm. The location will be Palm Valley Church on 431 N Litchfield Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85338. 

Have the lyrics for the performance songs for each grade.

Song recordings:
Fifth Grade:

Winter Solstice
Louisiana 1927

Fourth Grade

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Chipmunk Song
Breathe Soft Ye Winds

Third Grade
Do Re Mi
Autumn Vesper
A Candle's Light

Second Grade
Autumn Fires
nun gimel hei shin

First Grade
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Hanukhah Nagila

Fifth Grade Lyrics

Winter Solstice

Deep in Midwinter

When the Air is Chill

On The Horizon,

The Sun Stands Still

After December

Full Moon So Bright

Soon, It Will Be The Year's Longest Night

Stars Will Align

And They'll Leave Their Mark

Showing The Point

Of The Sun's New Arc

From This Day Forward

It's Path Will Ascend

Hours of Daylight

Grow Longer Again

This is The Winter Solstice

Follow the Path of The Sun

Now The New Path Has Begun

Louisina 1927

What has happened down here is the winds have changed?

Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain

Rained real hard and rained for a real long time

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day, the river rose all night

Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright.

The river have busted through cleared down to plaque mines

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The president say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame
What the river has done to this poor crackers land"

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

Three Easy Carols

5A

Dashing through the snow

With all my friends we go.

It’s so much fun.

We’re laughing and we’re singing.

Bells are ringing in the air.

We have no cares.

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight.

Oh, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way.

Oh, what fun it is to ride

A one-horse open sleigh,

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Jingle all the way,

Oh, what fun it is to ride

A one-horse open sleigh

Deck the halls

Deck the halls with boughs of holly

Fa, la la la la la la la la

Tis the season of jolly

Fa, la la la la la la la la

Don we now our gay apparel

Fa, la la, la la la, la la la

Trol the yuletide carol

Fa la la la la la la la

We wish you a merry Christmas,

A merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

Good tidings to you and your kin

Good tidings and a Happy New Year

We wish you a merry Christmas,

A merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

A Happyy New Year!

5B

Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleigh.

O’er the fields we go

Laughing all the way.

Bells on bobtails ring

Making spirits bright.

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight.

Oh, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells.

Oh, what fun to ride

In a one-horse sleigh,

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Oh, what fun to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh

Deck the halls

Deck the halls with boughs of holly

Fa, la la la la la la la la

‚Tis the season to be jolly

Fa, la la la la la la la la

Don we now our gay apparel

Fa, la la, la la la, la la

Trol the ancient yuletide carol

Fa la la la la la la la

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin

Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas,

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin

Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year

New Year!

Fourth Grade Lyrics

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

4A: Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!!

Joining together, sing out forever!

Let all be joyful! Raise your voice!

Alleluia! Alleluia! Rise up with song!

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

4B: Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Joining together, sing out forever! Raise your voice!

Alleluia! Alleluia! Rise up with song! Rise up with song!

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Hear us unite and loudly sing.

4A: Tidings of joy we gladly bring! Joining together!

Alleluia! Sing out forever!                        4B: Joining together! Alleluia!

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Raise your voice! Sing out forever! Alleluia! Alleluia! Raise your voice

All: Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Alleluia! Sing! Rejoice!

Joining together, sing out forever! Alleluia!

Raise your voice! Joining together, sing out forever!

Sing! Rejoice!

Breathe soft, ye winds, poem by Ambrose Phillips

Breathe soft ye winds,

Ye waters gently flow

Shield her ye trees,

Ye flowers around her grow

Ye swains, I beg you,

Pass in silence by,

My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.

The Chipmunk Song (Choral version on order)

Christmas, Christmas time is near
Time for toys and time for cheer
We've been good, but we can't last
Hurry Christmas, hurry fast

Want a plane that loops the loop
[Alvin:] Me, I want a Hula-Hoop
[Chipmunks:]
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas don't be late

[Dave:] Ok Fellas, Get ready.
That was very good, Simon.
[Simon:] Naturally!
[Dave:] Very Good Theodore
[Theodore:] He He He He
[Dave:] Uh Alvin, You were a little flat
Watch it, Alvin...Alvin?...ALVIN!!!
[Alvin:] OKAY!!

[Chipmunks:]
Want a plane that loops the loop
[Alvin:] I still want a Hula-Hoop
[Chipmunks:]
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas don't be late
We can hardly stand the wait
Please Christmas don't be late

Third Grade Lyrics

Do-Re-Mi

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with - A - B - C
When you sing you begin with DO - RE - MI
DO - RE - MI , DO - RE - MI
The first three notes just happen to be DO - RE - MI
DO - RE - MI
DO - RE - MI - FA - SO - LA - TI...
(Oh let's see if I can make this easier)
DO - a deer, a female deer
RE - a drop of golden sun
MI - a name, I call myself
FA - a long long way to run
SO - a needle pulling thread
LA - a note to follow SO
TI - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do oh oh oh
Doe! - a deer, a female deer
Ray! - a drop of golden sun
Me! - a name I call myself
Far! - a long long way to run
So! - a needle pulling thread
La! - a note to follow SO
Tea - a drink with jam and bread
That would bring us back to do!
A deer, a female deer
RE, a drop of golden sun
MI, a name, I call myself
FA, a long long way to run
SO, a needle pulling thread
LA, a note to follow SO
TI, a drink with jam and bread
That would bring us back to do...
DO - RE - MI - FA - SO - LA - TI - DO! - SO - DO! 

Autumn Vesper

Over wood and wold, over flood and fell,

Over flashing lake and gleaming dell,

The harvest moon looks down.

The harvest moon looks down.

And when heaven smiles with love and light,

And earth looks back so dazzling bright,

In such a scene, on such a night,

Earth’s children should not frown.

The harvest moon casts a magical glow,

Enchanting all the world below.

Bathed in a silvered shine, behold nature’s face divine.

And when heaven smiles with love and light,

And earth looks back so dazzling bright,

In such a scene, on such a night,

Earth’s children should not frown,

Earth’s children should not frown.

When the harvest moon looks down,

Earth’s children should not frown.

A Candle’s Light

A candle’s light

Is like no other light;

Its gleaming glow will warm the coldest night.

When winter’s day is fading into dark,

its gleaming flame will warm my very heart.

Into the flame my eyes do softly gaze;

It seems I cannot turn my eyes away.

For when I’m in the candle’s magic trance,

It draws me to its quiet mystic dance.

We gather round to share the candle’s light;

We talk and laugh into the witer night.

Each face aglow, reflecting golden beams,

preparing us for winter dreams.

Outside the snow I clinging to the trees,

The mighty pines are bending to their knees.

The wind is singing such a lonely tune,

And winter clouds now hide the winter moon.

We gather ‘round to share the candle’s light;

We talk and laugh into the winter night

Each face aglow, reflecting golden beams,

Preparing us for peaceful winter dreams,

For peaceful winter dreams,

A candle’s light.