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)
Sunday, September 25, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
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
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
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, September 5, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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