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