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.