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.