All Students in grades K-4 will be working on their musical numbers for their upcoming
Christmas Concert "A Christmas Collage" to be held on Friday, December 9.
Please note the song material and musical concepts to be taught for each grade level:
KDGN:
The Christmas Clock: Tone matching, Do, Mi, Sol and La, steady beat in duple meter, voice exploration, and the introduction of triplets.
Nine Little Reindeer: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Sol, La., vocal expression.
Ring Those Bells: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, an La, singing of half notes, repeated phrases, and loco-motor movement.
Good as I Can Be: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Sol, and La, introduction of syncopated rhythms, and vocal expression.
Jingle Bells: Tone matching Do Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol, verse and chorus form, singing half and whole notes.
FIRST GRADE:
Hello, Santa: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, and La, ( and low Sol) recognizing repeated melodic and rhythmic patterns and rhyming words in lyrics.
The Christmas Band: Tone matching Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, performing quarter notes and half notes,
playing steady beat on instruments.
Nuttin' for Christmas: Vocal expression, singing in verse and chorus form, solo singing responses, and syncopated rhythmic patterns. Literacy Link-reading and identifying lyrics.
Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas: Singing the entire C major scale, singing half and whole notes with proper breath support, creative movement, Literacy Link-reading lyrics
This is Christmas! Singing in the key of F major, reading quarter, eighth, half and whole notes, learning how to sing the "ng" ending of words, how to sing the combination of vowels."oy" and singing with expression.
THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE:
Winter Wonderland: Singing in the key of C major, learning about accidentals, singing long notes, blending of vowel sounds, vocal expression, creative movement.
Christmas is Coming: Singing in the key of C major, reading quarter, half and eighth notes, singing in 3 part round, and playing an ostinato on Orff xylophones.
Holiday Hop: Reading rhythms in 4/4 meter, singing uniform vowels, reading lyrics, and performing dace movement to song lyrics. History of 1950's early rock and roll sound and chord progressions.
Snow Day:Reading of quarter and eighth note rests in printed music, verse and chorus form, reading repeat signs, singing of syncopated rhythm patterns.
Christmas Sing-a-Long:Learning about the concept of a musical medley, singing with expression, counting measures of rest, singing with different dynamic levels and styles, singing in duple and triple meter, recognizing meter signatures
Songs included: Deck the Halls, Up On the Housetop, Jingle Bells, and We Wish You Merry Christmas
FIFTH GRADE GENERAL MUSIC:
On Monday, 11/14, 6th grade students will play their phone rows for assessment.
On Tuesday, 11/15, 5th grade students will take their written reflection on Henry Cowell and 20th century composition.
All 5th and 6th students will be introduced to the works and the life of the American composer, Aaron Copland. Students will be read a book about Copland via the jigsaw method. Students will share information they learned by creating questions to a trivia game.
Students will listen to the musical selection "Hoedown" and begin work on a percussion ensemble- reading a score containing quarter and eighth notes, half notes, quarter and half rests, repeat signs, dynamic markings, fermatas, and dynamic markings, ritardando.
Instruments used: woodblocks, rhythm sticks,triangles, and tambourines.
Students will learn how to read and play all 4 parts and be assessed in the first week of December.
CHORUS: Memorize First Footprints, work on Coda section of Zoot Suit Santa, introduce Jamaican Noel, 6th grade girls will work on Song of Peace on Wed. during music period and at recess on Green Days.Percussion parts for First Footprints and Jamaican Noel will be announced on Wed.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Lesson Plans Nov. 7-11
Kdgn-Students will be working on repeated eighth note patterns and tone matching.
Song material: Christmas Clock and Good As Can Be.
First grade-Students will be working on keeping steady beat and tone matching ( Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol)
Song material: The Christmas Band and Hello Santa.
Movement activity: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tree
Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode, singing half notes, and learning call and response phrasing.
Song material: Old Santa Claus, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, and Nuttin' for Christmas.
Third Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on identifying half notes in printed music.
Song material: Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, Carol of the Birds, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.
Fourth Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on reading eighth and quarter rests.
Song material : Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, The Holiday Hop, Snow Day, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.
Fifth Grade: Students will practice their phone rows, learn about retrograde( as an assignment extension), perform tone rows on a pitched instrument for assessment, and complete a written reflection
about their 20th century composing experiences.
Sixth Grade: Students will have the introductory lesson about A. Schoenberg and tone rows. Instructor will model and students will create a tone row based on their phone number. Students will practice one class period and perform for the instructor during the second class period for a reading assessment on a pitched instrument.
5/6 Choir: work on My America and God Bless America. Memorize First Footprints, work on harmony section of Zoot Suit Santa, and begin the Latin part of Song of Peace.(dona nobis pacem.)
Song material: Christmas Clock and Good As Can Be.
First grade-Students will be working on keeping steady beat and tone matching ( Do, Re, Mi, Fa, and Sol)
Song material: The Christmas Band and Hello Santa.
Movement activity: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Tree
Second Grade: Students will be working on singing in the minor mode, singing half notes, and learning call and response phrasing.
Song material: Old Santa Claus, Have a Holly Jolly Christmas, and Nuttin' for Christmas.
Third Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on identifying half notes in printed music.
Song material: Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, Carol of the Birds, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.
Fourth Grade: Students will review patriotic medley and work on reading eighth and quarter rests.
Song material : Yankee Doodle, Let's Hear it for America, The Holiday Hop, Snow Day, and The Christmas Sing-a-Long.
Fifth Grade: Students will practice their phone rows, learn about retrograde( as an assignment extension), perform tone rows on a pitched instrument for assessment, and complete a written reflection
about their 20th century composing experiences.
Sixth Grade: Students will have the introductory lesson about A. Schoenberg and tone rows. Instructor will model and students will create a tone row based on their phone number. Students will practice one class period and perform for the instructor during the second class period for a reading assessment on a pitched instrument.
5/6 Choir: work on My America and God Bless America. Memorize First Footprints, work on harmony section of Zoot Suit Santa, and begin the Latin part of Song of Peace.(dona nobis pacem.)
Special Announcements!!!!
Veteran's Day Assembly will be held this Friday,
November 11, 2011at 9 A.M. in the Jacobson gym.
All students in grades 3-12 will attend.
Jacobson students are asked to dress in red, white, and blue that day.
The program will recognize our local veterans, Lee Aldrich will speak, and there will be musical reflections from the 3/4 graders, the H.S. band and choir and a combined 5-8 choir.
The public is invited to attend as we honor and pay our deepest respects to all those veterans who have served our country to protect our freedoms.
Please note: The second and third grade will be attending the musical "Knuffle Bunny" next Tuesday,
November 15. The production will be held in the NIACC auditoruim in Mason City. Students will leave Jacobson at 9 A.M. that day and return at 1 P.M.
The performance starts at 10:30, and we will be eating school sack lunch in the NIACC student center before returning to Jacobson.
The tickets have been purchased with activity funds.
A note will be sent home with the detailed agenda this week.
Mark your calendars now!!
Jacobson Elementary presents...
"A Christmas Collage"
Friday, December 9
Luick Memorial Auditorium
Grades K-2 @ 1:00 P.M.
Grades 3-6 @ 2:00 P.M.
(includes 5/6 choir and 6th grade band)
November 11, 2011at 9 A.M. in the Jacobson gym.
All students in grades 3-12 will attend.
Jacobson students are asked to dress in red, white, and blue that day.
The program will recognize our local veterans, Lee Aldrich will speak, and there will be musical reflections from the 3/4 graders, the H.S. band and choir and a combined 5-8 choir.
The public is invited to attend as we honor and pay our deepest respects to all those veterans who have served our country to protect our freedoms.
Please note: The second and third grade will be attending the musical "Knuffle Bunny" next Tuesday,
November 15. The production will be held in the NIACC auditoruim in Mason City. Students will leave Jacobson at 9 A.M. that day and return at 1 P.M.
The performance starts at 10:30, and we will be eating school sack lunch in the NIACC student center before returning to Jacobson.
The tickets have been purchased with activity funds.
A note will be sent home with the detailed agenda this week.
Mark your calendars now!!
Jacobson Elementary presents...
"A Christmas Collage"
Friday, December 9
Luick Memorial Auditorium
Grades K-2 @ 1:00 P.M.
Grades 3-6 @ 2:00 P.M.
(includes 5/6 choir and 6th grade band)
Lesson Plans Oct. 31- Nov. 3
On Monday, October 31st:
All classes will have a Halloween review of songs and activities learned in the month of October.
Kdgn and First Grade:
Pumpkin Patch, The Pumpkin Tells, This is Halloween, H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N, Jackolantern,
Five Little Pumpkins, and the Five Little Ghosts, and Halloween Sounds.
Third Grade: Old Mrs. Witch, Pumpkin Carols, and the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt), and the Witches Brew.
Fifth Grade: Pumpkin carols, The Pumpkin Tells with student narrators, and the rounds Jack-0-Lantern and Are You Creeping?
Kdgn: Students will have second tonal assessment this week.
First grade: Students will begin working on the song The Christmas Band and play 2 of the 6 instruments in the song. Students will also start working on the song Hello, Santa.
2nd grade: Students will be read the story "Knuffle Bunny" in preparation for the field trip to the musical next week. Students will learn the opening of Old. Santa Claus on the soprano xylophones and learn to read and play the quarter rests in the song material.
3rd and 4th grade: Students will be working on the songs that they will sing at the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11. Yankee Doodle (all 3 verses), Let's Hear it for America! and the Star Spangled Banner.
5th grade: Students will be introduced to the concept of tone rows ( and the composer A. Schoenberg).
Students will create a tone row based on their phone number and play it on a pitched instrument.
6th grade: Students will use one class period to create their Percussion ostinato compositions and another class period to share them with the class. (performance assessment)
5th and 6th graders are now divided into 2 choirs.
Blue Choir has 55 members and meets on Blue days from 2:45-3:15.
Green Choir has 46 members and meets on Green days from 2:45-3:15
Both choirs will be working on the piece My America and God Bless America in preparation for the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11 and First Footprints and Zoot Suit Santa.
All classes will have a Halloween review of songs and activities learned in the month of October.
Kdgn and First Grade:
Pumpkin Patch, The Pumpkin Tells, This is Halloween, H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N, Jackolantern,
Five Little Pumpkins, and the Five Little Ghosts, and Halloween Sounds.
Third Grade: Old Mrs. Witch, Pumpkin Carols, and the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt), and the Witches Brew.
Fifth Grade: Pumpkin carols, The Pumpkin Tells with student narrators, and the rounds Jack-0-Lantern and Are You Creeping?
Kdgn: Students will have second tonal assessment this week.
First grade: Students will begin working on the song The Christmas Band and play 2 of the 6 instruments in the song. Students will also start working on the song Hello, Santa.
2nd grade: Students will be read the story "Knuffle Bunny" in preparation for the field trip to the musical next week. Students will learn the opening of Old. Santa Claus on the soprano xylophones and learn to read and play the quarter rests in the song material.
3rd and 4th grade: Students will be working on the songs that they will sing at the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11. Yankee Doodle (all 3 verses), Let's Hear it for America! and the Star Spangled Banner.
5th grade: Students will be introduced to the concept of tone rows ( and the composer A. Schoenberg).
Students will create a tone row based on their phone number and play it on a pitched instrument.
6th grade: Students will use one class period to create their Percussion ostinato compositions and another class period to share them with the class. (performance assessment)
5th and 6th graders are now divided into 2 choirs.
Blue Choir has 55 members and meets on Blue days from 2:45-3:15.
Green Choir has 46 members and meets on Green days from 2:45-3:15
Both choirs will be working on the piece My America and God Bless America in preparation for the Veteran's Day assembly on 11/11 and First Footprints and Zoot Suit Santa.
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