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.)