Hi, everyone!

Thank you for visiting my blog. My name is Bianca, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to incorporate music into your children's curriculum. I believe that music can help as a learning technique, and impress concepts on people that words cannot get to alone. My goal this year is to help Mrs. Naylor's class use music as a study tool for the core subjects. I will be keeping this blog as a way for you, the parent, to understand what I am doing each time I am with the students. 

This first blog post is simply a way for you to get to know me better. 

I am from Northern Virginia, right by Washington, D.C. My family and I looove to explore there. Second to music, I love learning about history, and American History is one of my favorite branches of that topic.

I am a music education major at Brigham Young University. My emphasis is in choir--so my primary instrument is voice--but I also play the violin, the piano, and the ukulele. I have known that I wanted to teach music since I was in high school--in fact, I did teach in high school. Over the course of twelfth grade, I taught and directed a middle school orchestra in the song, "Jericho" in a national festival, and their final concert. Below is a video of our last performance. 

This is a picture of me and my husband, Tyler. We just got married a little less than a month ago. 

I grew up learning Spanish through an immersion program in my elementary school, and continued to take classes up to the past year I had in college. If you prefer to speak Spanish, please do not hesitate to do so with me if you have questions for me concerning what I am doing in the classroom. (Si prefieres, puedes hablar español conmigo.)

Once again, thank you for letting me teach music to your children! I hope through this blog that you will see how music can make a difference in the classroom!

Sincerely,
Bianca Newkirk