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.
