4th grade is learning to play the recorders. We are earning our recorder yarn. The first song you have learn is “Hot Cross Buns” which earns the white yarn. There are 7 colors that you can get in “recorder-arate”. Ms. Alvarez-Sims’ class is on the third yarn, the orange yarn. We call it “record-arate” (rhymes with karate). To earn your yarn, you have to complete songs that Ms. King gives you. 4th grade and 5th grade are the only ones learning “record-arate” but sometimes 3rd graders learn it at the end of the year.