Mrs. Pollitt's Mission Statement

My Mission is to:

 

 

C          Create a Caring, Compassionate, and  Consistent Classroom,

where every student is….

 

A         Accepted, Acknowledged, and Affirmed

and taught to be….

 

R         Respectful, Reliable, Responsible and Resourceful

in an

 

E          Environment that Encourages all to pursue Excellence in Every Endeavor.

 

 

 Mrs. Pollitt

K-6 Vocal Music

Noteworthy News-Sept. 30

Thank you to all who supported the music fundraiser this year.
The 6th graders sold $3854.00 worth of magazine subscriptions and brought in 30 reach out booklets.
Ryann Sander was our top seller with over $600 in sales and Abby Nelson was second in orders sold.
Way to go, 6th graders!!  What a team effort.

I am putting out a call for a few volunteers to help me in the next few weeks.
I am in need of some help with filing and filling out of assessment sheets.
Please contact me by phone 444-4300 ext. 351 or by email: amy.pollitt@bkcsd.org if you are willing to be of assistance.  Thank you in advance!!

Assessment update:
All of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders have finished their first music assessment.
Kdgn and First graders will complete their first standards testing this week.
Look for assessment cards in your child's portfolio at first quarter conferences.

Lesson plans:

Kdgn: Students will continue working on voice placement, tone matching, and keeping steady beat.
Material: The Kermit Toss game, Doggie, Doggie, Where's my Bone? the Hiding game, Pause, and rhythm stick routines.

First and Second grade: Students continue working on folk songs and singing games.
Material: Paw-Paw patch, If You're Happy and You Know It, This Old Man and The Fire Song.
Tone matching ;Sol, Mi, and Do.  Reading rhythmic patterns with quarter rests.

Third grade:Students will be working on their Star Spangled Banner unit this week.
Learning the melody and rhythm, identifying new vocabulary terms, playing charades to act out vocabulary, measuring the flag of Ft. McHenry outside with meter sticks, and viewing Internet sites to see pictures of the flag, Francis Scott Key, Ft. McHenry, and Mary Pickersgill-the creator of the flag.  Students will also create a paper flag of 1812, identify the 15 states in the union at that time and complete a vocabulary worksheet.  Students will also be working on the Bronco Fight Song.

Fourth grade: Students will continue working on the lines and spaces of the treble clef.  Work study stations will be used on one class period.  Pre-testing worksheet and game of Human Staff will be played.  Students will play Fireman Fred, playing boomwackers and xylophones while reading the song.  Students will begin their accompaniment composition with the song Jack-o-lantern on xylophones and keyboards.

Fifth and Sixth grade: Students will be working on their new unit-American composer John Philip Sousa and his march "The Stars and Stripes Forever." Students will learn the form by creative marching, read a percussion chart and play it on four different instruments- reading quarter notes and rests.  Students will create their own listening maps for the march, identifying the three different melodic themes.
Students will view the video "The New Sousa Band" and read a short biography about Sousa's life and complete a crossword puzzle with new vocabulary terms.

5th grade chorus:  This Old Man, Bronco Fight Song, Watah Come a me Eye, America, and God Bless America.

6th grade chorus: This Old Man, Watah Come a me Eye, Song of the Unsung Hero, and God Bless America.

Jacobson Elementary Music Concert Dates 2012-2013

Jacobson Elementary Music Concert Dates 2012-2013

 

Friday, December 13, 2012

K-4 Christmas Concert “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”

4:00 P.M. ( Please note time change from previous years)

Luick Memorial Auditorium

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

5/6 Mid-Winter Concert

7:00 P.M.

Luick Memorial Auditorium

 

Monday, February 25, 2013 (Snow date: Mon. March 4)

North Central Elementary Honor Choir

7:00 P.M.

NIACC Auditorium-Mason City

This event is for a selected group of eight 6^th grade singers.

 

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

K-3 Elementary Fine Arts Festival

6:00 P.M.         Artwork viewing

6:30 P.M           Concert

Jacobson Gymnasium

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

4-6 Elementary Fine Arts Festival

6:00 P.M.         Artwork viewing

6:30 P.M.         Concert

Jacobson Gymnasium

 

 

 

 

Noteworthy News-Sept. 9

Welcome back to another school year!

 Students in grades K-6 are back to music making again!

On this blog you will see important announcements, concert dates and information, and lesson plan highlights for Elementary Vocal Music.

Please feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions you have about your student's musical education.  I also invite you to come to school and visit a music class and experience what is happening in Room 8 of Jacobson!

Contact information:

Amy Pollitt
School Phone: 641 444-4300 ext. 351
New School email: amy.pollitt@bkcsd.org

Music Magazine Sales have started!!!

All 6th grade students have started selling magazines.
This annual fundraiser is held each fall to raise money for the music department.
Participation is optional.  However, each student in Jacobson derives benefits from the proceeds of this campaign, and it is the only fundraiser we participate in. 
6th grade families will be receiving more communication from me this week.
Magazine sales runs two weeks:  Sept. 9-21.
Thank you in advance for your support!

 

Lesson Plan Highlights:

Kdgn: Students have been working on voice placement and echoing short rhythmic and melodic phrases. We are learning poems and chants to encourage proper behavior in the classroom.

Song material:  The Hello Song, Teddy Bear, We Can Make a Circle, Hallway Rap, Eyes Up, My Hands.
Movement activities: Statues, Loopity Loo, Hand Jivin', If You're Happy and You Know It.
Extension Activities: Instrument Land and Kid Songs (BINGO and I Had Me a Cat)

First and Second Grade: Students have been working on tone matching, phrasing, vowel placement, and rhythmic patterns though traditional American singing games.

Song material: The Farmer in the Dell, Old MacDonald, The Swinging Farmer, A Tisket a Tasket.
Movement activities: Loopity Loo, The Kermit Toss Game, Statues.
2nd graders are learning to read rhythm charts with Kodaly language (quarter and beamed eighth notes) and learning to play simple accompanying patterns (ostinati) on shakers and drums.

 

Third and Fourth Grade: Students have been working on a traditional Canadian folk song, "Land of the Silver Birch." Students have learned to read in stanza form, sing in the pentatonic scale, and play patterns in 4/4 meter. Students will learn/read different accompanying ostinati patterns on drums, boomwackers, Orff xylophones, and drums.  Assessment on this unit will take place next week. Please refer to your Curriculum handbook for music standards and benchmarks.

 

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students viewed a YouTube video to introduce the song material for this unit on melody and counter melody. Students have learned the Roger Whittaker song "New World in the Morning" in the key of C Major.  Each student has identified the pitches C, E, and G on a counter melody worksheet and have learned to play the counter melody on boomwackers. This week students will learn to play it on Orff xylophones and have the opportunity to play it on a keyboard or piano, as well.  Assessment on this unit will begin next week and includes singing, playing/reading, and written reflection.

 

6th grade chorus meets from 2:45-3:15 on each Blue Day.

5th grade chorus meets from 2:35-3:15 on each Green Day.
Both choirs are working on posture, breathing, sight reading, Solfege hand signals, singing in rounds and partner songs.  ( 6th graders have begun work on 2 part singing )
All 5/6 students are in chorus, as singing in choir is an extension of the 5/6 General Music curriculum.

Next post......look for......

2012-2013 concert dates

  A call for volunteers
   Mrs. Pollitt's Mission Statement
      Music Class Rewards Menu

Message from the music room: Life has Rules:Play Fair (poster on the door)

 

 

 

 

 

K-2 Fine Arts Festival Program Jacobson Gym Tuesday, March 6

Jacobson Elementary K-2 Fine Arts Festival

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Lynnette Clark- Art Instructor

Amy Pollitt –Music Instructor

Kay Trampel-Music Instructor

KINDGERGARTEN SHOWCASE- 1:30

            Say Hello

            Copy Cat

            Rhythm Stick Routines

                        Music, Music, Music

                        Chicken Fat

            Statues (Fundamental Movement)

            Hokey Pokey (Family Interaction)

FIRST GRADE SHOWCASE-2:00

            Ribbon Stick Routines

                        Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

                        Tomorrow

            Make a Rhyme, Make a Move

            Alligator Purse

                King of the Jungle/The Little Mouse

            Marching Fun (Family Interaction)

SECOND GRADE SHOWCASE-2:30

            The Hello Song

            Rhythm Hoop Routines

                        Russian Dance

                        Ease On Down the Road

            Parachute Demonstrations/Pink Panther

            Carnavalito

            Seven Jumps (Family Interaction)

PLEASE TAKE YOUR STUDENT’S ARTWORK HOME WITH YOU FOLLOWING THE SHOWCASE

Lesson Plans Feb. 27-Mar. 3

Kdgn: Students had exploratory time in the keyboard lab on Tuesday and spent Thursday in the gym practicing for the K-2 Fine Arts Festival.
KINDERGARTEN FINE ARTS FESTIVAL SHOWCASE WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6 @ 1:30 IN THE JACOBSON GYM.

First Grade: Students spent both days in the gym practicing for the Fine Arts Festival.  Work concentrated on the learning of the "reel" part of Bow Belinda folk dance and refining ribbon stick
 routines
FIRST GRADE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL SHOWCASE WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6, @ 2:00 IN THE JACOBSON GYM.

Second Grade: Students worked in the keyboard lab learning the C position with D as a locator.
Students worked on red and black hand finger numbers and spent 2 class periods in the gym practicing the rhythm hoop routines, the parachute activities, and instrument parts for Carnavalito.
SECOND GRADE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL SHOWCASE WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6, @ 2:30 IN THE JACOBSON GYM.

Third Grade: Students worked in the keyboard lab on finger numbers with red and black hands using partners to quiz and challenge each other.  Song material: Hot Cross Buns, Love Somebody, and Mary Had Little Lamb.

Fourth Grade: Students worked on the 5 finger extension to play songs with the pitch A.  Song material: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Yellow Submarine.  Students were introduced to the symbols for glissando and trill and created a class non-traditional symbol composition for practice.

Fifth Grade:  Students continued to work on reading songs with the 5 finger extension and songs with 2 hands in a shared C position.  Song material: Yellow Submarine and Yankee Doodle.  Students who needed to play Ode to Joy for assessment did so during exploratory time.  Students were introduced to the concept of chords and learned how to play a C chord with their black (left) hand.

Sixth Grade: Students worked on their non-traditional composition for 2 class periods. In addition,
Students continued to work on reading songs with the 5 finger extension and songs with 2 hands in a shared C position. Song material: Yellow Submarine and Yankee Doodle. Students were introduced to the concept of chords and learned how to play a C chord  and a G with their black (left) hand.

Fifth and Sixth Grade chorus: Students auditioned for speaking parts and signed up for committees for the upcoming spring musical "Compose Yourself" and rehearsals for musical numbers will begin next Tuesday, March 7.

Lesson plans Feb. 20-24

Kdgn:Students worked on preparing for the upcoming Fine Arts festival and worked on listening skills in preparation to study in the piano keyboard lab.

First grade: Students worked on the following concepts in the piano keyboard lab: red/black hand, high and low position, small and large clusters, and finding the locator key of D and worked on the folk dance, Bow Belinda in preparation for the upcoming Fine Arts festival.

Second grade: Students reviewed key concepts in the keyboard lab, worked on rhythm hoop routines for the upcoming Fine Arts Festival.

Third grade: Students reviewed the song Eddie Kootchie, sang in the Celebrate America sing, worked on
small and large clusters in the keyboard lab and participated in Jump  Rope for Heart.

Fourth Grade: Students created and played a class composition with small and large clusters in the keyboard lab, sang in the Celebrate America sing, and had time for exploring on piano keyboards.

Fifth Grade: Students took their 13 music symbol test, practiced for Ode to Joy assessment, and took the performance assessment on Friday.

Sixth Grade: Students took their written assessment on West Side story one class period and took their listening assessment on the second period.

5/6 chorus: Students lead the 3/4 in the Celebrate America sing on Monday and spent one period with a read through for the opening scene of the musical "Compose Yourself"
Auditions for speaking parts will be held next week.