Every year, I have the privilege of being a part of one of the most special adventures in one's Lower School career, the fourth-grade shore trip. The trip is a time when students come together to combine all of their different knowledge and experience the adventure of something new together. From science, where they discover and learn about seining in the bay, to painting observational watercolor paintings in silence from the look-out tower, to creating special wishes in the sand. To be sure, it is a time that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
I have the wonderful opportunity of teaching them the song for the Moonlight Shore Ceremony. Students learn this simple song "Full Moonlight Dance" in an odd time meter, no less (5/4!) and then create their own unique choreography to accompany it. Every class creates something different each year. And this year, we will witness three different versions! All of them unique, but all of which have uncanny similarities, even though the classes only see one another's dances during a few all-grade rehearsals.
I look forward to the wonder and magic the experience will bring!
Click here to hear a version of the Full Moonlight song.
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