Request

Dear UPA Elementary Families,
For our upcoming Holiday Concert, we are going to celebrate family by including some of your favorite family pictures. All UPE students are participating in the show, so we hope to have as many families as possible represented. One photo per family, please.

Digital Photos may be sent to Mrs. Melkonian: smelkonian@uprep.com

Hard copies of photos may be given to your child's classroom teacher or put in Mrs. Melkonian's mailbox. Photos will be returned if they are clearly marked.

Thank you,
Mrs. Melkonian

Giving Thanks

I consider myself to be blessed beyond measure to come to work and make music with children everyday. While the world buzzes around us, I give thanks for the small, beautiful moments that happen in the classroom everyday. I give thanks for your expressive singing, your curiosity and your desire to learn.

Wishing all UPA families a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Mrs. Melkonian

AMPP Exhibitions

Hello Music Students and Parents!

The AMPP Exhibitions are taking place tomorrow in the gym during the students' regular AMPP time. This is where they will show off what they have been doing in Art, Music, Physical Education and Theatre (Performing Arts) for the past trimester.

The AMPP Exhibition schedule is:

12:30-1:25--Kindergarten and First Grade

1:30-2:25--Second and Third Grade

2:30-3:25--Fourth and Fifth Grade

Looking forward to seeing you there. All are invited!

Mrs. Melkonian

Music Field Trips

I am happy to say that three entire grades of our school were out of the building last Friday to experience LIVE music performances! Nothing makes me happier than seeing our students getting on busses and heading out. And that's because they're having wonderful learning experiences, of course! :)

All of our Kindergarten and First Grade students took the long bus trip to Ann Arbor to see Keith Terry and his Body Slammin' Band at the historic Hill Auditorium. Keith Terry is an expert in body percussion. He entertained our students with his stomping, patting, tapping and popping. Though I didn't get to go, I heard the performance was

wonderful and the day was a success all around.

The entire third grade class took the short trip down Woodward to the Max M. Fisher Music Theatre to see a performance by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Our students represented our school amazingly well as they heard the "Instrumental Safari" program in the beautiful historical hall. Some of the highlights were hearing parts of Saint Saens "Carnival of the Animals" and the March from "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

I hope everyone enjoyed the performances and got to share their experiences with their families.

Mrs. Melkonian

The DSO warming up

Jeremiah and Drew at the

Max M. Fisher Music Center