Lower School Music

Our Lower School Music Room houses over twenty xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels, seven Zimbabwean marimbas, sixteen djembes, soprano ukuleles, hand chimes, and various percussion instruments. Students begin exploring music with their voices and these instruments beginning in Pre-K.

Lower School students visit the music classroom twice each week. On any given day, passersby will see students singing, playing instruments, composing, improvising, listening and responding to music, and collaborating with one another.

Alex Asacker, Lower School Music Teacher

Above everything else, I want children to enjoy music, to find joy in rhythm, singing, and movement. In terms of pedagogy, I like the approach of John Feierabend, who talks about children becoming 'tuneful, beatful, and artful.'

Shore Country Day School

545 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA 01915

(978) 927-1700

Shore Country Day School’s mission is to provide an education that inspires a love of learning and encourages children to embrace academic challenge. We seek to build character, cultivate creativity, and value diversity as we help our children become healthy, compassionate citizens of the world.

The School admits qualified students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, sex, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law, and extends to them all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. The School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, sex, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its admissions, scholarships, and loans, and its educational, athletic, and other programs.