Willow is honored to have a Grammy award winning musician as our music teacher who treats our students as if they all attend a gifted private school here in Vero Beach.
Robert Navarro is a musician, producer, and song writer. Along with teaching music to our students, he is also embarking on teaching them how to appreciate music as well as write their own music with the help of technology. Visit His website to learn more about him at:
Robert Navarro's Website
Our music
program is designed to introduce children to music as well as foster a love music and singing as a large emphasis of the program is on singing. Many schools have eliminated or reduced music programs because of budget cuts but we realize the importance of music and want to provide our students with every learning modality and treat each child as if she or he were gifted here at our private school in Vero Beach.
Grades K-2
- Have an introduction to music with an emphasis on singing and movement.
- Children work on pitch, tone, melody, choral singing, and rounds
- They explore percussion instruments and much more
Grades 3-8 This music class is a chorus
- Children learn how to sing
- They practice many vocal exercises
- Students learn a wide variety of songs
- They are also learning song writing
As part of our service learning program, our students work toward public presentations for many local organizations throughout the year. They also perform regularly for their parents.
In addition, all Willow students are learning how to read music and are able to identify and discern the various orchestral instruments. All of our students, not just the gifted students at our prviate school, receive this education.