Fifth Grade Teacher

"I like doing art projects with Jennifer because she thinks of great art projects."

"She would always talk about what we were going to do before we started or the culture we were going to learn about."

"You have taught me a lot of new and exciting things about art."

"The favorite things I did with you this semester was making a picture of the pharaoh. Another favorite thing …was making hieroglyphs."

Student

"I think Kat Sena should be the winner of The Barbie Arts Teacher of the Year. She teaches us about conductors, and composers. Kat teaches us about melodies, pitch, and harmony. Kat is a good singer. She helps us learn new song by doing "call and response". She taught us to sing major and minor scales. We learned lots of new songs this year and performed on stage and a winter program in front of our parents, teacher and other students. She teaches chorus to the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders at our school. I hope that my mom will let me sign up for chorus when I am in the 3rd grade. I think everybody should learn music, because when they grow up they will be able to sing and might even become a music teacher."

2nd Grade Student

"I think Kat Sena should be the Barbie Arts Teacher of the Year because every class in our school gets to take turns being with her. We learn new song with her. One of my favorite songs that Kat taught us is Snow Snow Snow. She is very special to me. She teaches us new songs every time we go to music. We got a music folder and we put all our songs in it. Kat wrote a special song for our school. The song goes like this A-L-A-M-O that's our school that's Alamo every ones a friend I know at A-L-A-M-O HEY!"

2nd Grade Student

"I have known Kat for three years. Every school should have a music teacher like Kat. She teaches me how to sing and over the years She has taught me some wonderful songs. She encouraged me to even when I had a hoarse voice for about a year. Kat is a great teacher because she has a nice voice, she's fun, and she is always happy to see us. She is kind and patient and never yeas at us. She makes me want to sing my best and I can't wait to sing in her chorus. Kat teaches singing to every single class in my school of about 600 kids and she does concerts in my school. I think every school should have the Arts because when I do art it makes me feel happy and it allows me to express myself."

2nd Grade Student

"Kat Sena is the best music teacher in the world, in my opinion. She is kind knows what she is doing, and cares about every person she teaches. I like Kat a lot and think of her as a friend not a teacher.

Kat teaches the chorus program in the morning before school. She teaches third, fourth, and fifth graders. On Tuesdays, the third graders have chorus, on Wednesday fourth and fifth graders have chorus, and on Thursday everybody does. She teaches the chorus great songs. Recently we learned the song "Beautiful" by Carole King. I love that song, but when we learn a song by a person that changed music history, we have to learn about that person.

Kat taught us a lot about Carole King, she taught us that Carole King was the first woman who was not afraid to put her name instead of a mans name on her records. This was unusual at the time because female singers were not allowed to sing, and most male singers sung the songs the women wrote and got famous from it. Kat taught us about a lot of people like Lois Armstrong and many others.

The Alamo School Friendship Chorus puts onperformances for special occasion like Christmas, Grandparents Day, end of the year, and everything in between. The chorus puts on performances for the school also, when there is no special occasion.

I love having chorus with Kat, and I love singing, because both of them make me happy!"

4th Grade Student