Lesson Plans Oct. 24-28

Kdgn: Students will be working on voice exploration and singing in triple meter.
Song material: Halloween Sounds, The Haunted House, and This is Halloween
Movement activity: This is Halloween and The Calabaza (Jack-o-Lantern)
Literacy Link: 5 Little Ghosts

First grade: Students will be working on melodic shape and learning to play Orff xylophones and melody bells.
Song material: Black Cat, The Little Pumpkin, and Halloween Sounds
Movement activity: The Calabaza and Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
Literacy Link: The story of Peer Gynt
Assessment: Playing steady beat on drums to recorded music.

Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in round and playing instrument accompaniment using quarter notes and rests.
Song material: Jack-o-Lantern (minor mode) and Trick or Treat (major mode)
Movement activity: This is Halloween
Literacy Link: Guess What I Am? and the poem The Happening

Third Grade: Students will be working on reading quarter notes, beamed eighth notes, and quarter and eighth notes in song material and in rhythm charts.  Students will also be singing in round.
Song material: Old Mrs. Witch ( student solo responses), The Witches Brew, and Trick or Treat.
Movement activity: The Witches Brew (Hap Palmer)
Literacy Link: Lyric reading in verse form.

Fourth Grade: Students will be working on singing an ostinato pattern in the minor mode and reviewing singing in round and using Orff accompaniments to class singing.
Song material: Hey, Ho, Nobody Home, Jack-o-Lantern, Trick or Treat.
Halloween Fun Sing-a-Long on Friday with Pumpkin Carols.
Students will also be practicing the No! I Say rap for  the assembly on Thursday.

Fifth Grade: Students will only have music once, due to the field trip on Tuesday.
On Thursday, students will be introduced to their final 20th century co-op assignment.
Random Composition-students will use dice and playing cards to create a musical piece.
The dice will determine the rhythm and the cards (with the use of a key) will determine the pitches.
Instructor will model and demonstrate.....composing will take place next week

Sixth Grade: Students will be working on their second co-op composition. Students will view the you-tube video of Henry Cowell's composition ''Ostinato Pianissimo." Students will begin composing on Monday, share their works for assessment with the class on Wednesday.  On Friday, students will begin their introduction to Random Composition. ( see 5th grade notes above.)

5th graders will not have chorus this week. (gone on Tuesday and in the Red Ribbon Week assembly on Thursday.)

6th grade chorus: Students will be working on the following octavos in preparation for the Christmas concert: First Footprints, Zootsuit Santa, and The Song of Peace.  Students will have a Halloween Sing on Friday.

Volunteers needed

I am currently in need of some volunteers to help with some tasks in the elementary music department.

Assistance needed at present:

Filing in the music library.
Recording names on music assessment cards. (could be done at home)

If you would be willing to be a music volunteer, please contact me at school.

Thank you!

Amy Pollitt
641 444-4300 ext. 351
amy.pollitt@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.ua

Lesson Plans Oct. 17-21

Kdgn: Students will be working on singing and responding to ascending and descending melodies.
Song material: One Little Pumpkin and This is Halloween.
Literacy Link: 5 Little Pumpkins
Rhythm games: Pumpkin Patch
Movement activity: Chicken Fat and The Pumpkin Tells

First Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode and identifying leaps and skips in a melody.
Song material: Black Cat (Promethean flip chart) and This is Halloween
Movement activity: The Alley Cat and Make a Rhyme, Make a Move and acting out This is Halloween.
Literacy Link: reading the lyrics of the Black Cat and identifying rhyming words in the song's lyrics.

Second Grade: Students will be working on finishing their rhythm compositions and playing them to recorded music for assessment. Reading skills will be singing songs with quarter and eighth notes and quarter rests.
Song material: Autumn Leaves (review), Old Mrs. Witch, and 3 Little Witches, and Black Cat.

Third Grade: Students will be working on the singing skill of call and response.
Song material: The Wackiest Witch, She'll Be Flying Over the Tree Tops, and Pumpkin Carols.
Percussion accompaniment will be created by students to the above songs.

Fourth Grade: Students will be working on the singing skill of call and response and singing in a round.
Song material: The Wackiest Witch, She'll Be Flying Over the Tree Tops, and Are You Creeping?
Students will be sharing their Jack-o-Lantern accompaniments will their peers.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students will be creating their second co-op composition.
Students will watch a You-tube video performance of a Henry Cowell composition that shows how a Percussion ostinato composition is created.  Students will have one class period to compose, and one period to share and be assessed. 6th graders are still working one period on their tone cluster pieces.

Chorus: Students will be working on the triple meter section of First Footprints, the introduction of Carol of the Bells, and the coda of Song of Peace. Students will also spend some time singing Pumpkin carols and taking 1st quarter chorus assessment (Posture and breathing and rhythm reading.)

Lesson Plans Oct. 10-14

Mrs. Pollitt will be gone on Monday, Oct. 10

Kdgn: Students will be working on tone matching, Do, Mi, and Sol and creative movement.
Song material: The Fire Song, The Pumpkin Tells
Games: Find Fireman Fred, The Pumpkin Tells, and The Pumpkin Patch

First Grade: Students will be learning to sing the Fire Song in Spanish.
Song Material: The Fire Song (with Find Fireman Fred game) B-I-N-G-O, The Pumpkin Tells

Second Grade: Students will play the Fireman Fred game, learn and read the FireBell song, identifying ascending and descending scales. Students will be practicing on their rhythm compostitions on Friday.

Third Grade: Students will be sharing their choreography created in learning groups with their peers.
Students will be reading and playing the Fire Song on boomwackers.
Song material : Crawdad Song, The Fire Song (with Promethean chart)

Fourth Grade: Students will have a Halloween Sing on Wednesday, and working with their cooperative groups on Friday composing Orff accompaniments to Jack-o-lantern and Halloween.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: Students will be composing in cooperative teams their tone cluster composition.
Create one class period, share and peer review on second class period.

Chorus: Sight reading activity: Black and Gold, First Footprints, and Song of Peace.

Lesson Plans Oct. 3-7

Kdgn: Students will be working on steady beat and vocal exploration.
Song Material: The Pumpkin Patch Pickin' Poem, Review of Teddy Bear and the Apple Song.
Assessment: Playing rhythm instruments to the recorded music "Pause".
Movement activity: Chicken Fat with rhythm sticks and Hand Jivin'

First grade: Students will continue to work on singing folk songs and playing steady beat accompaniments with rhythm instruments.
Song Material: BINGO, Old MacDonald, Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush, and Little Red Wagon
Literacy Link: Finding rhyming words on lyric flip charts.
Movement activities:Make a Rhyme, Make a Move
Finish basal tone matching assessment.

Second grade:Students will be continuing to learn to read and play quarter notes and quarter rests.
Rhythm reading off of flip charts and playing to recorded music. Students will practice writing rhythmic patterns with notes and rests.
Song material: Clap and Rest and Autumn Leaves
Students will compose/create a 2 measure composition in 4/4 meter using quarter notes and rests and begin practicing on an instrument of their choice.
Singing assessment continues with solfege and the Hello Song.

Third grade: Students will be finishing up all assessments for the Star Spangled Banner unit.
Singing assessment will be done in small groups, reflections must be completed.
Students will also create an instrumental accompaniment and dance/movement to the folk song, "The Crawdad Song".  This activity will also be assessed on Wednesday.

Fourth grade: Students will be working on creating an Orff accompaniment in cooperative learning groups assigned by the teacher.
Song material: Jack-o-Lantern
Introduce: Autumn is Here (singing in the minor mode)
Review singing in round with A Pizza Hut

Fifth and Sixth grade: Students will begin new unit on the 20th century composer Henry Cowell.
Listening activity: The Banshee
Art connection: viewing artwork of H. Bosch
Discussion of 20th century composing methods and notation used by Cowell.
Investigate different ways to play the piano.
Introduce the concepts of tone clusters, sound block compositions, random and chance methods of composing ( using dice and cards)
Students will be put in cooperative learning composing teams and begin the 7 station rotation of creating original compositions and sharing with the class.

5th and 6th grade chorus: Sight reading lessons in both Rhythm Reader and Patterns of Sound.
Song material: America, God Bless America, First Footprints, and Song of Peace.