Christmas concert information

Jacobson Elementary Presents....."A Christmas Collage"

Friday, December 9. 2011

Luick Memorial Auditorium-Belmond-Klemme Jr./Sr. High School

Doors open at 12:30

K, 1st and 2nd graders will present their portion of the program starting at 1:00 P.M.
Concert order: Kindergarten, First grade, Second grade.

Following an intermission, the 3rd-6th graders will perform beginning at 2:00 P.M.
Concert order: 6th grade band, 3rd grade, 3rd/4th combined choir, 4th grade, 6th grade girls, 5/6 chorus
5/6 students will be dismissed from the auditorium following the conclusion of the concert.

ALL K-4 STUDENTS WILL FINISH THE DAY AT JACOBSON. DISMISSED AT 3:20.

Practice Schedule for the week of Dec. 5-9

Here is the daily schedule for practices at the High School for this week.

PLEASE NOTE; All 5th and 6th graders will be dismissed from the High School at the end of each school day this week.

Monday, December 5-Green Day

6^th grade music and PE classes at regular times at Jacobson.  Classes working on the A. Copland Hoedown percussion score.

10- 10:30 Mrs. Pollitt setting up at H.S.

10:30-11:15 All 2^nd grade at the H.S. Torkelson, Bram, Kuhlers

NO PE on this day for 2^nd grade

1:00-1:45 All 4^th grade at the H.S. Jenison, Mallen

NO PE on this day for 4^th grade

1:45-2:00 Mrs. P. and Mr. Stittsworth set up for band

1:50 6^th grade band students leave for H.S with Mrs. Lowenberg

2:00-2:30 6^th band rehearses at H.S.

2:20 remaining 5/6 students leave for H.S.

2:30-3:20 5/6 chorus rehearses at H.S.

ALL 5/6 STUDENTS WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL

Tuesday, December 6-Blue Day

5^th grade students go bowling during specials time.

10:00-10:45 All Kdgn at the H.S. Markwardt, Jenison

NO PE on this day for Kdgn

12-12:30 All 1^st grade to the H.S. Wagner, Tanner

12:45-1:15 All 1^st grade PE with Mrs. Trampel

1:00-1:45 All 3^rd grade to H.S. Bell, Smith, Mick

2:00-2:30 All 3rd grade to PE with Mrs. Trampel

1:50 6th grade band students leave for H.S. with Mrs. Lowenberg

2:00-2:30 6th band rehearses at H.S.

2:20 remaining 5/6 students leave for H.S.

2:30-3:20 5/6 chorus rehearses at H.S..

 ALL 5/6 STUDENTS WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL

Wednesday, December 7-Green Day

6^th grade students go bowling during specials time.

9:00-9:30 All Kdgn to the H.S. Markwardt, Jenison

10:00-10:30 All 2^nd grade to the H.S. Torkelson, Bram, Kuhlers

10:45-11:15 All 2^nd grade PE with Mrs. Trampel

11:00-11:45 All 3^rd and 4^th grade to H.S. Bell, Smith, Mick, Jenison, Mallen

1:15-1:45 All 1^st grade to H.S.

1:00 Ms Jenison’s class to PE

1:30 Mrs. Mallen’s class to PE

1:50 6th grade band students leave for H.S. with Mrs. Lowenberg

2:00-2:30 6th band rehearses at H.S.

2:20 remaining 5/6 students leave for H.S.

2:30-3:20 5/6 chorus rehearses at H.S.

ALL 5/6 STUDENTS WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL

Thursday, December 8- Blue Day

5^th grade specials- regular times for music working on A.Copland's Hoedown percussion score.

10-11 regular Kdgn specials times. All Kdgn report to music room @10 with PE shoes on-pick up in gym@ 11.

No afternoon specials for 1^st and 3^rd grade.

12:45 Dress Rehearsal @ H.S.  Concert order: Kdgn, 1^st, 2^nd, 6^th band, 3^rd, 3^rd/4^th choir, 4^th grade, 6^th girls, 5/6 chorus.

Following dress rehearsal   all 5/6 students will remain for any last minute fixes with our accompanist.

ALL 5/6 STUDENTS WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL

Lesson Plans Nov. 14-18 and Nov. 21-22

All Students in grades K-4 will be working on their musical numbers for their upcoming
Christmas Concert "A Christmas Collage" to be held on Friday, December 9.
Please note the song material and musical concepts to be taught for each grade level:

KDGN:
The Christmas Clock: Tone matching, Do, Mi, Sol and La, steady beat in duple meter, voice exploration, and the introduction of triplets.
Nine Little Reindeer: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Sol, La., vocal expression.
Ring Those Bells: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, an La, singing of half notes, repeated phrases, and loco-motor movement.
Good as I Can Be: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Sol, and La, introduction of syncopated rhythms, and vocal expression.
Jingle Bells: Tone matching Do Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol, verse and chorus form, singing half and whole notes.

FIRST GRADE:
Hello, Santa: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, and La, ( and low Sol) recognizing repeated melodic and rhythmic patterns and rhyming words in lyrics.
The Christmas Band: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, performing quarter notes and half notes,
playing steady beat on instruments.
Nuttin' for Christmas: Vocal expression, singing in verse and chorus form, solo singing responses, and syncopated rhythmic patterns. Literacy Link-reading and identifying lyrics.
Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas: Singing the entire C major scale, singing half and whole notes with proper breath support, creative movement, Literacy Link-reading lyrics
This is Christmas! Singing in the key of F major, reading quarter, eighth, half and whole notes, learning how to sing the "ng" ending of words, how to sing the combination of vowels."oy" and singing with expression.

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE:
Winter Wonderland: Singing in the key of C major, learning about accidentals, singing long notes, blending of vowel sounds, vocal expression, creative movement.
Christmas is Coming: Singing in the key of C major, reading quarter, half and eighth notes, singing in 3 part round, and playing an ostinato on Orff xylophones.
Holiday Hop: Reading rhythms in 4/4 meter, singing uniform vowels, reading lyrics, and performing dace movement to song lyrics. History of 1950's early rock and roll sound and chord progressions.
Snow Day:Reading of quarter and eighth note rests in printed music, verse and chorus form, reading repeat signs, singing of syncopated rhythm patterns.
Christmas Sing-a-Long:Learning about the concept of a musical medley, singing with expression, counting measures of rest, singing with different dynamic levels and styles, singing in duple and triple meter, recognizing meter signatures
Songs included: Deck the Halls, Up On the Housetop, Jingle Bells, and We Wish You  Merry Christmas

FIFTH GRADE GENERAL MUSIC:
On Monday, 11/14, 6th grade students will play their phone rows for assessment.
On Tuesday, 11/15, 5th grade students will take their written reflection on Henry Cowell and 20th century composition.
 All 5th and 6th students will be introduced to the works and the life of the American composer, Aaron Copland. Students will be read a book about Copland via the jigsaw method. Students will share information they learned by creating questions to a trivia game.
 Students will listen to the musical selection "Hoedown" and begin work on a percussion ensemble- reading a score containing quarter and eighth notes, half notes, quarter and half rests, repeat signs, dynamic markings, fermatas, and dynamic markings, ritardando.
Instruments used: woodblocks, rhythm sticks,triangles, and tambourines.
Students will learn how to read and play all 4 parts and be assessed in the first week of December.

CHORUS: Memorize First Footprints, work on Coda section of Zoot Suit Santa, introduce Jamaican Noel,  6th grade girls will work on Song of Peace on Wed. during music period and at recess on Green Days.Percussion parts for First Footprints and Jamaican Noel will be announced on Wed.

Lesson Plans Nov. 7-11

Kdgn-Students will be working on repeated eighth note patterns and tone matching.
Song material: Christmas Clock and Good As Can Be.

First grade-Students will be working on keeping steady beat and tone matching ( Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol)
Song material: The Christmas Band and Hello Santa.
Movement activity: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tree

Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode, singing half notes, and learning call and response phrasing.
Song material: Old Santa Claus, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, and Nuttin' for Christmas.

Third Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on identifying half notes in printed music.
Song material: Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, Carol of the Birds, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.

Fourth Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on reading eighth and quarter rests.
Song material : Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, The Holiday Hop, Snow Day, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.

Fifth Grade: Students will practice their phone rows, learn about retrograde( as an assignment extension), perform tone rows on a pitched instrument for assessment, and complete a written reflection
about their 20th century composing experiences.

Sixth Grade: Students will have the introductory lesson about A. Schoenberg and tone rows.  Instructor will model and students will create a tone row based on their phone number.  Students will practice one class period and perform for the instructor during the second class period for a reading assessment on a pitched instrument.

5/6 Choir: work on My America and God Bless America.  Memorize First Footprints, work on harmony section of Zoot Suit Santa, and begin the Latin part of Song of Peace.(dona nobis pacem.)

Special Announcements!!!!

Veteran's Day Assembly will be held this Friday,
November 11, 2011at 9 A.M. in the Jacobson gym.

All students in grades 3-12 will attend.
Jacobson students are asked to dress in red, white, and blue that day.

The program will recognize our local veterans, Lee Aldrich will speak, and there will be musical reflections from the 3/4 graders, the H.S. band and choir and a combined 5-8 choir.

The public is invited to attend as we honor and pay our deepest respects to all those veterans who have served our country to protect our freedoms.

Please note: The second and third grade will be attending the musical "Knuffle Bunny" next Tuesday,
November 15.  The production will be held in the NIACC auditoruim in Mason City. Students will leave Jacobson at 9 A.M. that day and return at 1 P.M.
The performance starts at 10:30, and we will be eating school sack lunch in the NIACC student center before returning to Jacobson.
The tickets have been purchased with activity funds.
A note will be sent home with the detailed agenda this week.


Mark your calendars now!!

Jacobson Elementary presents...

"A Christmas Collage"

Friday, December 9

Luick Memorial Auditorium

Grades K-2 @ 1:00 P.M.

Grades 3-6 @ 2:00 P.M.

(includes 5/6 choir and 6th grade band)

Lesson Plans Oct. 31- Nov. 3

On Monday, October 31st:
All classes will have a Halloween review of songs and activities learned in the month of October.

Kdgn and First Grade:
Pumpkin Patch, The Pumpkin Tells, This is Halloween, H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N, Jackolantern,
Five Little Pumpkins, and the Five Little Ghosts, and Halloween Sounds.

Third Grade: Old Mrs. Witch, Pumpkin Carols, and the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt), and the Witches Brew.

Fifth Grade: Pumpkin carols, The Pumpkin Tells with student narrators, and the rounds Jack-0-Lantern and Are You Creeping?

Kdgn: Students will have second tonal assessment this week.

First grade: Students will begin working on the song The Christmas Band and play 2 of the 6 instruments in the song.  Students will also start working on the song Hello, Santa.

2nd grade: Students will be read the story "Knuffle Bunny" in preparation for the field trip to the musical next week.  Students will learn the opening of Old. Santa Claus on the soprano xylophones and learn to read and play the quarter rests in the song material.

3rd and 4th  grade: Students will be working on the songs that they will sing at the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11. Yankee Doodle (all 3 verses), Let's Hear it for America! and the Star Spangled Banner.

5th grade: Students will be introduced to the concept of tone rows ( and the composer A. Schoenberg).
Students will create a tone row based on their phone number and play it on a pitched instrument.

6th grade: Students will use one class period to create their Percussion ostinato compositions and another class period to share them with the class. (performance assessment)

5th and 6th graders are now divided into 2 choirs.

Blue Choir has 55 members and meets on Blue days from 2:45-3:15.
Green Choir has 46 members and meets on Green days from 2:45-3:15
Both choirs will be working on the piece My America and God Bless America in preparation for the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11 and First Footprints and Zoot Suit Santa.

Lesson Plans Oct. 24-28

Kdgn: Students will be working on voice exploration and singing in triple meter.
Song material: Halloween Sounds, The Haunted House, and This is Halloween
Movement activity: This is Halloween and The Calabaza (Jack-o-Lantern)
Literacy Link: 5 Little Ghosts

First grade: Students will be working on melodic shape and learning to play Orff xylophones and melody bells.
Song material: Black Cat, The Little Pumpkin, and Halloween Sounds
Movement activity: The Calabaza and Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
Literacy Link: The story of Peer Gynt
Assessment: Playing steady beat on drums to recorded music.

Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in round and playing instrument accompaniment using quarter notes and rests.
Song material: Jack-o-Lantern (minor mode) and Trick or Treat (major mode)
Movement activity: This is Halloween
Literacy Link: Guess What I Am? and the poem The Happening

Third Grade: Students will be working on reading quarter notes, beamed eighth notes, and quarter and eighth notes in song material and in rhythm charts.  Students will also be singing in round.
Song material: Old Mrs. Witch ( student solo responses), The Witches Brew, and Trick or Treat.
Movement activity: The Witches Brew (Hap Palmer)
Literacy Link: Lyric reading in verse form.

Fourth Grade: Students will be working on singing an ostinato pattern in the minor mode and reviewing singing in round and using Orff accompaniments to class singing.
Song material: Hey, Ho, Nobody Home, Jack-o-Lantern, Trick or Treat.
Halloween Fun Sing-a-Long on Friday with Pumpkin Carols.
Students will also be practicing the No! I Say rap for  the assembly on Thursday.

Fifth Grade: Students will only have music once, due to the field trip on Tuesday.
On Thursday, students will be introduced to their final 20th century co-op assignment.
Random Composition-students will use dice and playing cards to create a musical piece.
The dice will determine the rhythm and the cards (with the use of a key) will determine the pitches.
Instructor will model and demonstrate.....composing will take place next week

Sixth Grade: Students will be working on their second co-op composition. Students will view the you-tube video of Henry Cowell's composition ''Ostinato Pianissimo." Students will begin composing on Monday, share their works for assessment with the class on Wednesday.  On Friday, students will begin their introduction to Random Composition. ( see 5th grade notes above.)

5th graders will not have chorus this week. (gone on Tuesday and in the Red Ribbon Week assembly on Thursday.)

6th grade chorus: Students will be working on the following octavos in preparation for the Christmas concert: First Footprints, Zootsuit Santa, and The Song of Peace.  Students will have a Halloween Sing on Friday.

Volunteers needed

I am currently in need of some volunteers to help with some tasks in the elementary music department.

Assistance needed at present:

Filing in the music library.
Recording names on music assessment cards. (could be done at home)

If you would be willing to be a music volunteer, please contact me at school.

Thank you!

Amy Pollitt
641 444-4300 ext. 351
amy.pollitt@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.ua

Lesson Plans Oct. 17-21

Kdgn: Students will be working on singing and responding to ascending and descending melodies.
Song material: One Little Pumpkin and This is Halloween.
Literacy Link: 5 Little Pumpkins
Rhythm games: Pumpkin Patch
Movement activity: Chicken Fat and The Pumpkin Tells

First Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode and identifying leaps and skips in a melody.
Song material: Black Cat (Promethean flip chart) and This is Halloween
Movement activity: The Alley Cat and Make a Rhyme, Make a Move and acting out This is Halloween.
Literacy Link: reading the lyrics of the Black Cat and identifying rhyming words in the song's lyrics.

Second Grade: Students will be working on finishing their rhythm compositions and playing them to recorded music for assessment. Reading skills will be singing songs with quarter and eighth notes and quarter rests.
Song material: Autumn Leaves (review), Old Mrs. Witch, and 3 Little Witches, and Black Cat.

Third Grade: Students will be working on the singing skill of call and response.
Song material: The Wackiest Witch, She'll Be Flying Over the Tree Tops, and Pumpkin Carols.
Percussion accompaniment will be created by students to the above songs.

Fourth Grade: Students will be working on the singing skill of call and response and singing in a round.
Song material: The Wackiest Witch, She'll Be Flying Over the Tree Tops, and Are You Creeping?
Students will be sharing their Jack-o-Lantern accompaniments will their peers.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students will be creating their second co-op composition.
Students will watch a You-tube video performance of a Henry Cowell composition that shows how a Percussion ostinato composition is created.  Students will have one class period to compose, and one period to share and be assessed. 6th graders are still working one period on their tone cluster pieces.

Chorus: Students will be working on the triple meter section of First Footprints, the introduction of Carol of the Bells, and the coda of Song of Peace. Students will also spend some time singing Pumpkin carols and taking 1st quarter chorus assessment (Posture and breathing and rhythm reading.)

Lesson Plans Oct. 10-14

Mrs. Pollitt will be gone on Monday, Oct. 10

Kdgn: Students will be working on tone matching, Do, Mi, and Sol and creative movement.
Song material: The Fire Song, The Pumpkin Tells
Games: Find Fireman Fred, The Pumpkin Tells, and The Pumpkin Patch

First Grade: Students will be learning to sing the Fire Song in Spanish.
Song Material: The Fire Song (with Find Fireman Fred game) B-I-N-G-O, The Pumpkin Tells

Second Grade: Students will play the Fireman Fred game, learn and read the FireBell song, identifying ascending and descending scales. Students will be practicing on their rhythm compostitions on Friday.

Third Grade: Students will be sharing their choreography created in learning groups with their peers.
Students will be reading and playing the Fire Song on boomwackers.
Song material : Crawdad Song, The Fire Song (with Promethean chart)

Fourth Grade: Students will have a Halloween Sing on Wednesday, and working with their cooperative groups on Friday composing Orff accompaniments to Jack-o-lantern and Halloween.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students will be composing in cooperative teams their tone cluster composition.
Create one class period, share and peer review on second class period.

Chorus: Sight reading activity: Black and Gold, First Footprints, and Song of Peace.

Lesson Plans Oct. 3-7

Kdgn: Students will be working on steady beat and vocal exploration.
Song Material: The Pumpkin Patch Pickin' Poem, Review of Teddy Bear and the Apple Song.
Assessment: Playing rhythm instruments to the recorded music "Pause".
Movement activity: Chicken Fat with rhythm sticks and Hand Jivin'

First grade: Students will continue to work on singing folk songs and playing steady beat accompaniments with rhythm instruments.
Song Material: BINGO, Old MacDonald, Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush, and Little Red Wagon
Literacy Link: Finding rhyming words on lyric flip charts.
Movement activities:Make a Rhyme, Make a Move
Finish basal tone matching assessment.

Second grade:Students will be continuing to learn to read and play quarter notes and quarter rests.
Rhythm reading off of flip charts and playing to recorded music. Students will practice writing rhythmic patterns with notes and rests.
Song material: Clap and Rest and Autumn Leaves
Students will compose/create a 2 measure composition in 4/4 meter using quarter notes and rests and begin practicing on an instrument of their choice.
Singing assessment continues with solfege and the Hello Song.

Third grade: Students will be finishing up all assessments for the Star Spangled Banner unit.
Singing assessment will be done in small groups, reflections must be completed.
Students will also create an instrumental accompaniment and dance/movement to the folk song, "The Crawdad Song".  This activity will also be assessed on Wednesday.

Fourth grade: Students will be working on creating an Orff accompaniment in cooperative learning groups assigned by the teacher.
Song material: Jack-o-Lantern
Introduce: Autumn is Here (singing in the minor mode)
Review singing in round with A Pizza Hut

Fifth and Sixth grade: Students will begin new unit on the 20th century composer Henry Cowell.
Listening activity: The Banshee
Art connection: viewing artwork of H. Bosch
Discussion of 20th century composing methods and notation used by Cowell.
Investigate different ways to play the piano.
Introduce the concepts of tone clusters, sound block compositions, random and chance methods of composing ( using dice and cards)
Students will be put in cooperative learning composing teams and begin the 7 station rotation of creating original compositions and sharing with the class.

5th and 6th grade chorus: Sight reading lessons in both Rhythm Reader and Patterns of Sound.
Song material: America, God Bless America, First Footprints, and Song of Peace.

Bronco Fight Song

To the tune of "On Wisconsin"
Sing:
On, you, Broncos,
On, you, Broncos,
Buck, and rear and fight!
Man nor beast nor team can stop you.
Show 'em, Broncos, fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
There are cowboys, strong and valiant
Who may try to ride.
But, Broncos, they may never stand your stride!
Hey!

Cheer: B-R-O-N-C-O-S!
Broncos........Fight!

Repeat the singing part.
Musical form: ABA  (Sing  Cheer Sing)

Lesson Plans Sept. 26-30

All students will be working or reviewing the words to the Bronco Fight Song.
Please see blog entry "Bronco Fight Song" for words.

Kdgn:  Students will be working on singing, movement to steady beat, and rhythmic patterns.
Song material: The Short A Sound, March with long A and the Apple Song.
Assessment continues on basal tone matching and playing rhythm sticks.
Movement: Chicken Fat (with rhythm sticks)
Literacy Link: The Apple Song (tune: Yankee Doodle)

First Grade: Students will be working on singing in complete phrases and steady beat.
Song material: BINGO, Old MacDonald, and Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush.
continues on basal tone matching and steady beat with percussion instruments.
Literacy Link: BINGO and Leaves are Falling (Promethean flip charts)

Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode and learning to play ostinati on the Orff xylophones as accompaniment.
Song material: Leaves are Falling and Jack-o-Lantern.
Assessment continues on the Hello Song.
Movement: Paw-Paw Patch and Little Red Wagon

Third Grade: Students continue activities related to the study of the National Anthem.
Literacy Link: Vocabulary charade game: ramparts, dawn, gleaming, hailed, banner, perilous, bombs, brave.
Students will finish their reflective pictures depicting their learning to send to soldiers presently serving our country.

Fourth Grade: Students will be working on singing in round and creating short rhythmic and melodic accompaniments to a song.
Song Material : A Ram-Sam-Sam, A Pizza Hut, Jack-o-Lantern, and September Song.
Assessment: Drumming part and written reflection for Land of the Silver Birch.

Fifth and Sixth Grade:  Students will be completing their performance and conducting assessment for Vivaldi's Four Seasons-Autumn movement.
All Proving Posters must be completed and handed in for grading this week.
Students will view videos of the entire Four Seasons on the Promethean board.
Students will wrap up unit by displaying student work in hallway and playing Vivaldi Family Feud.

5th and 6th grade chorus:
Rhythm Reader: Practice combined patterns in 4/4 meter.
Sight reading do, re, mi, fa, and sol. Work on combined patterns on page 5.
Round singing: Music Alone Shall Live, and America, A Pizza Hut and A Ram-Sam-Sam
Introduce Hey, Ho, Nobody Home. (minor mode)
Begin to look at Christmas octavos.

Lesson Plans Sept. 19-23

Kdgn: Students will be working on tone matching, (Do, Mi, and Sol), steady beat, and repeated rhythmic patterns.
Song Material: Dancing Bear, Hello Song (Hap Palmer) and Rap-a-Tap-Tap
Voice Exploration: Where is Thumbkin? (with new voices)
Literacy Link: Mr. Bojangles
Movement/Rhythm: Rhythm Sticks-Music, Music Music
Assessment: continue basal assessment on tone matching

First Grade: Students will be continuing to work on tone matching, melodic phrasing, and repeated rhythmic phrasing.
Song Material: Skip to My Lou, 10 Little Broncos, Old MacDonald, and BINGO
Literacy Link: BINGO reading on Promethean Board flip chart
Voice Exploration: Farm Animal Game
Assessment: Steady Beat with student choice percussion instrument and basal tone matching.

Second Grade:Students will be working on melodic phrasing and reading skills.
Rhythm reading: Quarter rests
Song material: Clap and rest
Assessment: Melodic phrasing-PawPaw Patch and Hello Song in student's choice of English, Spanish, or French.

Third Grade: Students will be working on the national anthem with multiple interdisciplinary connections.
Activities will include: Charades game for new vocabulary, re-telling of the story behind the song, looking at pictures of the flag of Ft. McHenry, identifying melodic phrases in the tune of the Star Spangled Banner, and measuring the original flag's size on the school grounds with meter sticks.
Each third grader will receive a personal copy of the music and lyrics of the anthem for study and memorization.  Students will also discuss proper flag etiquette when the anthem is played or sung.

Fourth Grade: Students will finish work on Land of the Silver Birch and begin a new unit on singing in canon (round)
New Song Material: A Pizza Hut  and The September Song.
Assessment: Drum part for Land of the Silver Birch and written reflection.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students will only have class once this week due to canoeing in PE.
Assessment on Vivaldi and the Four Seasons-Autumn.
Students will choose their own testing teams and be individually assessed on their reading and playing skills by playing a 4 pitch counter melody to recorded music. Students will also be evaluated conducting in triple meter.  Students will create a "Proving Poster " to demonstrate knowledge learned about musical road signs, lines and spaces of the treble clef, and biographical facts about Vivaldi.

Fifth and Sixth grade choruses: Students will be concentrating on echoing and reading Solfege patterns, singing in canon and partner songs.
Song Material: Jack-o-Lantern, Music Alone Shall Live, Chumbara, Yonder Come Day

6th grade MAGAZINE TURN-IN DAYS THIS WEEK ARE:
TUESDAY, SEPT. 20 AND FRIDAY, SEPT. 23RD.
MONEY AND ORDERS MUST BE TURNED IN BEFORE 8:10!!!
Prizes will be awarded during chorus periods.

We had 13 6th graders turn in close to $1000 on the first turn-in day last Friday.
Our Jacobson goal is to raise $7000 before Sept. 30.
Please call me at school if you have questions concerning this campaign.
641 444-4300 ext.351
Mrs. Pollitt
amy.pollitt@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us

Lesson Plans Sept. 12-16

Kdgn: Students will continue to work on voice exploration, steady beat and tone matching.
Song Material: Teddy Bear (poem/chant), Dancing Bear, and Hello (Hap Palmer Recording)
Movement: Rhythm Sticks/ Music, Music, Music
Literacy Link:Rap-a-Tap-Tap
Basal tone matching assessment will continue with the Hiding Game (solo response)

First Grade: Students will continue to work on voice exploration, steady beat and tone matching.
Song Material: Cobbler, Cobbler, Where's My Shoe? Skip to My Lou/learning all verses.
Movement: Pause (Hap Palmer) played with percussion accompaniment.
Basal tone matching assessment will continue with the Hiding Game (solo response)
Voice exploration activity: Soul Man

Second Grade: Students will continue to practice reading rhythm charts with quarter and beamed eighth notes. Singing will concentrate on repeated phrasing in folk songs.
Song Material: The Paw-Paw Patch, and Skip to My Lou..reading all verses.
Performance activity: Play This Rhythm and Carnavalito
Assessment: drumming an ostinato pattern to recorded music.(Carnavilito)
Voice exploration activity: Soul Man

Third Grade: Review of song Crawdad Song-identifying repeated phrases.
Create/Composing activity: Instrument/Square Dance Moves to match song phrasing.
Introduction to National Anthem unit -view the video and hear story "The Story of the Star Spangled Banner".

Fourth Grade: Students will be assessed on reading 2 rhythmic patterns with quarter notes and quarter rests.  Ostinato patterns will be played on Orff xylophones and drums.
Practice activity: Clap and Rest/Drum Circle with student leaders.
Song material: Land of the Silver Birch.
Social Studies connection: Canadian National Anthem/ Indian customs/the circle tradition

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Music classes will only meet once this week, due to each class going canoeing for a double class period for PE.
Students will learn Part 2 of the counter melody for Vivaldi's Autumn.  Students will be allowed time in class to create co-operative learning groups to prepare for next week's performance assessment.
Students may choose to play the counter melody on a pitched instrument.
Practice time will be allowed on Orff xylophones, keyboards, piano, and boomwackers.
If time permits, students will be allowed Internet access in music room to further research: Vivaldi and the Baroque Era.

5th and 6th grade Chorus:
Muscle movers, Rhythm Reader ex. 22-24 read as partner exercises. Sight Reading: Patterns of Sound:
Lands Far Across the Sea sung in Solfege after reading exercises first.  Henry Leck vowel work: Apples and Bananas.
Song Material: This Old Man, God Bless America and America.

Lesson Plans Sept. 6-9 201

Kdgn: Students will be working on voice exploration, steady beat, and tone matching.
Activities: The Kermit toss, Magic Drum, Pass the Instrument, and Hiding Game.
Song Material: Where is Thumbkin?/Time for Music/Pause(recorded music)
Movement: Skip to My Lou with fundamental movement/Statues
Literacy Link: Curious George Part 2.

First Grade: Students will be working on voice exploration, steady beat, and tone matching.
Activities: The Kermit toss, Hand Jive, Pass the Instrument, and Hiding Game (basal assessment)?
Song Material: Where is Thumbkin? with alternative voices, Ten Little Broncos, Tonal Response: sol, mi, and la./Time for Music.

Second Grade: Students will be working on rhythm reading (quarter and eighth notes), ostinato patterns, tone matching and Solfege hand signals for Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol. and songs with repeated phrasing. Singing in different languages: French, Italian, Spanish, and Norwegian.
Song Material: The Hello Song (review Italian and learn Norwegian) The Paw-Paw Patch.
Listening and Movement: Carnavalito(recording with body ostinati)
Reading and Playing: Rhythm Chart #1

Third Grade: Students will be working on rhythm reading (quarter and eighth notes), ostinato patterns, tone matching and Solfege hand signals for Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol. and songs with repeated phrasing.
Song Material: The Crawdad Song and Bronco Fight Song.
Listening and movement:Carnavalito with drumming ostinati.

Fourth Grade: Students working on expanding the vocal range, proper breath control, diction, reading a verse score, steady beat, and 2 pitch ostinato on boomwackers and Orff xylophones.
Song material: Land of the Silver Birch (Canadian folk song)
Social Studies connection: Canadian flag, map study, listen to Canadian national anthem.

Fifth Grade: Students will learn more about composer A. Vivaldi through Internet and printed sources.
Students in co-op groups will create pieces to put on classroom bulletin boards.
Reading/Playing: Counter melody #1 for "Autumn" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons and perform on boomwackers and Orff xylophones.  Read score and ID treble clef, meter signature, repeat sign, and staff.  Students will perform to recorded music.
Historical connection: Identify time line and characteristics of the Baroque Era.

Sixth Grade:Students will learn more about composer A. Vivaldi through Internet and printed sources.
Students in co-op groups will create pieces to put on classroom bulletin boards.
Reading/Playing: Counter melody #1 and #2 for "Autumn" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons and perform on boomwackers and Orff xylophones. Read score and ID treble clef, meter signature, repeat sign, and staff. Students will perform to recorded music.  Differentiation: Students may play counter melodies on piano or keyboard.
Historical connection: Identify time line and characteristics of the Baroque Era.

Fifth and Sixth Grade Chorus: Muscle movers, Diction work: Hot Potato, Rhythm Reader: page 9 exercises 22, 23, 24. Solfege work, Sight reading: Patterns in Sound/Lands Across the Sea
Melody with counter melody: Chumbara(5th) and Yonder Come Day(6th) Octavo Reading: This Old Man and God Bless America.  MENC book: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean and This Land is Your Land.

Welcome to the 2011-2012 School Year!

Welcome back to another school year! I am so excited to be serving the Belmond-Klemme community as the K-6 Vocal Music instructor. My name is Amy Pollitt, and I am beginning my thirty-second year of  teaching elementary music in this district.   I am looking forward to working with all students, creating safe classroom environment where ALL students are accepted, acknowledged, and affirmed.

Please feel free to come and visit the music classroom anytime. 
The music room is Room #8 and located in the east hallway of Jacobson directly across from the lunch room.
My school phone is 641 444-4300 ext. 351.
You can also email me at: amy.pollitt@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us.

Weekly lesson plans will be posted on this blog, as well as upcoming musical news and concert dates.
Look for pictures from the classroom, video and audio links that accompany student study, links to articles on music/arts education and quotes that promote good characater habits.