Children's Choirs at Zion

Many musical opportunities are set up in order to assist children in their musical progression throughout the years in Zion’s elementary and middle school departments.  Each student in Kindergarten through third grade is taught in a general music class by his or her teacher.  The Minister of Music, Sam Eatherton, teaches the music classes for grades 3 through 8.  In addition to the general music class, every student in Kindergarten through grade 8 participates in a choir.  In the 2005-2006 school year, Kindergarten through Grade 2 form one choir, Grades 3, 4, and 5 comprise another, and Grades 6, 7, and 8 make up the advanced choir in the school. 

As students advance to each new choir level, they become better music readers, and their performance schedule becomes busier.  Beginning in the 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Grade Choir students learn to sing in two and three parts, with these skills improved and built upon in the 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade choir.  The older choirs not only sing in the church but in the community as well, at nursing homes, hospitals, and malls.  Their Christian message is spread through the gift of song.

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