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.)