Miss Reiner is excited to be in Upper Moreland! She received her Bachelor's in Music Education from the University of the Delaware and her Master's in Music Education from Bowling Green State University. Miss Reiner is a member of National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA), and Gordon's Institute of Music Learning (GIML). Miss Reiner also regularly sings with the Delaware Choral Scholars and recently traveled with them to Croatia. In her free time, Miss Reiner enjoys cooking, exercising, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.
Music & Performing Arts
Ms. Kayla Reiner
Our Mission
Music is an integral part of a complete education. It engages students in individual and group activity; develops creativity, problem solving skills, critical thinking, and evaluative skills. Music integrates understanding from multiple disciplines and leads to an improved self-concept, a broader cultural awareness, and a development of life-long skills. Music develops the total person and evokes the very essence of humanity. Through performance-based music instruction, students discover and develop their potential through varied, sequential musical experiences in listening, performing, and creating.
Our mission in the Upper Moreland Primary School is to provide a comprehensive music program in which students will develop the skills and knowledge to perform and appreciate music as life-long participants through sequential, performance-based instruction.
”Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
~Plato~
National Standards for Music Education
Performing, creating, and responding to music are the fundamental music processes in which humans engage. Students, particularly in grades K-5, learn by doing. Singing, playing instruments, moving to music, and creating music enable them to acquire musical skills and knowledge that can be developed in no other way. Learning to read and notate music gives them a skill with which to explore music independently and with others. Listening to, analyzing, and evaluating music are important building blocks of musical learning. Further, to participate fully in a diverse, global society, students must understand their own historical and cultural heritage and those of others within their communities and beyond. Because music is a basic expression of human culture, every student should have access to a balanced, comprehensive, and sequential program of study in music. Students should engage in developmentally appropriate learning experiences designed to prepare them to achieve these standards.
Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
Reading and notating music.
Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
Evaluating music and music performances.
Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
Pennsylvania State Academic Standards for Arts and Humanities
The Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities describe what students should know and be able to do at the end of grades 3, 5, 8 and 12 in the visual and performing arts and the understanding about humanities context within the arts. The arts include dance, music, theatre and visual arts. The arts and the humanities are interconnected through the inclusion of history, criticism and aesthetics. In addition, the humanities include literature and language, philosophy, social studies and world languages. The interconnected arts and humanities areas are divided into these standards categories:
9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts
9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts
9.3 Critical Response
9.4 Aesthetic Response
The Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities define the content for planned instruction that will result in measurable gains for all students in knowledge and skills and provide a basis of learning for continued study in the arts. The unifying themes of production, history, criticism and aesthetics are common to each area of study within the Academic Standards in the Arts and Humanities.
Music Education is an aural art form that satisfies the human need to respond to life experiences through singing, listening and/or playing an instrument.
Humanities Education is the understanding and integration of human thought and accomplishment.
General Music
The General Music program is designed to enhance the musical, creative and expressive qualities of all students. Musical opportunities are provided for every child to learn the basic skills of singing, playing and reading music, developing song repertoire, broadening listening skills and experiencing the interrelated nature of music with other cultures and content areas.