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The Lincoln 56 Band performs at the start of the spring concert.
Pre-schoolers hold up masks as they recite Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Second and third grade students dance the Teton Mountain Stomp.
First and second graders saddle up for a song
Tahvo Lattin as Dirk Yeller menaces Noah Barnett, portraying a local towns person, in "The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town," a play the 6th grade class adapted from a children's book.
Lincoln elementary students perform the final song of the evening.
In an uncommon arrangement, last Wednesday's Pre K-6th grade spring concert came in two parts. First up the 5th and 6th sixth grade 56 Band playing 'Galactic Episode' and 'Mahna-Mahna,' Two pieces of music teacher Melissa Gilbert said the band put hard work into learning.
They were followed by the pre-schoolers, who recited Hickory Dickory Dock, Hey Diddle Diddle and Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
"We did a whole unit on nursery rhymes and songs we thought would be important for them to know, going into kindergarten," Gilbert said.
The bulk of the concert, however, had a Western adventure theme. Divided into six "scenes," the performance kicked off with a the 2nd and 3rd grades dancing the Teton Mountain Stomp. Sue Murphy worked during music class and some PE classes to teach the kids several traditional dances for the performance, Gilbert said.
The theme came about from searching for songs Gilbert felt the kids should know, highlighted by the fourth and fifth graders mash up of "Home on the Range" and "My Home's in Montana
"They put the two songs together, which I thought was perfect for our town. And they're songs I think the kids should know and are referenced in a lot of movies and other musicals," Gilbert said.
Sporting stick horses made of yardsticks and hand colored paper horse heads, the Kindergarten and 1st grade students performed "Giddy Up!" followed by the 2nd and 3rd grade who did "The Cowboy Code."
"(It's) a good song that teaches the kids to remember respect, truth and pride," Gilbert said.
The 6th grade went a step further, adding to the show by adapting a children's book into a short play. "The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town," was about a notoriously ill-tempered cowboy bully calmed by books.
The 4th and 5th grade sang "Under the Stars," before all the kids from kindergarten through 6th grade ended the show with "Until we Meet Again."
Gilbert said this year's performance proved to be a little more challenging to pull together because she only had the kids once a week on Mondays for an hour, rather than twice a week for half an hour. But she said the other teachers helped out, particularly when Gilbert's Monday classes were missed for holidays or other events.
"They were flexible in allowing me to take time somewhere else in their day to kind of make up for those classes," she said.
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