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.