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.