Lesson Plans Jan. 23-27

Kdgn- Students worked on tone matching with singing of the song, Doggie, Doggie, Where's My Bone?
Movement activities included: Soul Man, The Bleacher Boogie, and Copy Cat.  On Friday, students worked together in the gym preparing for the upcoming Fine Arts Festival.

First Grade-Students worked on tone matching in the minor mode, echoing patterns using La, do, and Mi. They learned the song, The Little Mouse using repeated patterns and reading them on a Promethean chart. They were introduced to melody bells and did movement activities  Soul Man and The Bleacher Boogie.  Students played the tone matching game, Purple Monkey responding with patterns in the minor mode: key of E minor.

Second Grade-Students worked on reading rhythm patterns with quarter notes and rests, beamed eighth notes, half notes and rests by reading the chart Snowflake Patterns.  Students prepared for assessment by playing drums and rhythm sticks and singing the folk song, Paw-Paw Patch.  Movement activities: Soul Man and The Bleacher Boogie.

Third Grade-Students reviewed reading 16th note patterns and prepared for assessment. Students had a sing-a-long  with the entire 3rd grade on Wed. singing Oh, Susanna, Yankee Doodle, and Mrs. Murphy's Chowder.  On Friday student were introduced to the concept of musical form identifying  Introduction, Verses, Choruses (refrains) and Codas in the music Heart of Rock and Roll and Mrs. Murphy's Chowder.  Students created listening maps on the Promethean board using different shapes to represent different parts of the songs.

Fourth Grade: On Tuesday, students did not have music class, as they saw a movie and made preparations for Jump Rope for Heart with Mrs. Trampel.  On Thursday students began the study of the song the Drinking Gourd and had a class discussion about slavery in the south prior to the Civil War.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: worked on music symbol mastery and had lessons on dynamic markings.
Fifth grade began to prepare for their Beethoven Buckets game by reading research packets and playing the game Beethoven by the numbers. (Both grades missed a class period due to late starts on Monday and Tuesday.)

5/6 Choir: Students worked on sight reading 16th notes with a rhythm chart and sight reading song, Dinah.  Students reviewed solfege hand signals, were introduced to low Sol.  Song material: Oh, Susanna, This Land is Your Land, 50 Nifty United States, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Clementine,
Yankee Doodle, America, Star Spangled Banner.

Lesson Plans Jan. 16-20

Mrs. Pollitt was out of the classroom this week.
Mrs. Lisa Lovgren was the guest teacher Mon.-Thurs.  Fri was a snow day.

Kdgn- worked on the following with CD accompaniment
Hello Song
Copy Cat
Music, Music, Music,
Chicken Fat
Statues
Hokey Pokey

First Grade-saw the move Kids of Character and discussed the 6 pillars of character.

Second Grade- viewed the movie The Marvelous Musical Mansion.

Third Grade and Fourth Grade- worked on the American folk songs Yankee Doodle and Oh, Susanna and reviewed the Star Spangled Banner with CD accompaniment and song booklets.

Fifth Grade- created Cryptic Copland Cartoons with a partner and posted them in the room and tried to solve each other's word puzzles.

Sixth Grade- created the Copland Cartoons and finished a movie about the composer Bizet.

Choruses had open gym time in Mrs. Pollitt's absence.

Lesson plans Jan 3-13

Kdgn: will be reviewing the movement activity "Statues" and learning how to drum the fundamental movement beats on the drum.  Students will be assessed on those two activities, as well as pitch matching.
Students will learn the rhythm stick routine "Small World".
Song material for  will include:  Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, The Hap Palmer Hello Song, and The Copy Cat.

First Grade: will begin the study of musical opposites: first studying loud and quiet.
They will be read the Aesop fable of the Lion and the Mouse.  Students will be singing 2 songs in the minor mode: The King of the Jungle and the Little Mouse.  Activities will include reading Promethean charts, playing drums, playing Boomwacker tubes of the pitches D,F, and A, and acting out the parts of the animals through creative movement.  Rhythmic patterns will include the introduction of quarter rests and singing and playing with dynamic expression.  Students will also do a listening chart activity to recorded examples.

Second Grade and Fourth Grade: will begin a unit on rhythm performance in a drum circle.
Students will be learning non-verbal Rhythm games will include : Echo Me, Join Me, Rhythm machine, Boomwacker Madness, Canons and Rounds.  Emphasis will be on listening, analyzing, reading, and performing.  Various recordings will be used and students will begin being drum leaders in the next couple of weeks.

Third Grade: will be learning how to read and play 16th notes.  Students will be working on a rhythm chart with 8 different measures in 4/4 time that include quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.  Students will play with rhythm sticks to the recorded music "Heart of Rock and Roll"  Huey Lewis and the News. ( assessment to follow)  Song material that includes 16th note patterns: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder, Agalina Hagalina, and Eddie Cotchie Kootchie.  Students will also be studying the musical form/vocabulary: Verse, Refrain, Introduction, Interlude, and Coda.

Fifth and Sixth Grade: will be reviewing the percussion chart, "Hoedown" by Aaron Copland, playing tambourine, woodblock, rhythm sticks, and triangle.  Performance assessment on 1/9 and 1/10.  Students will read biographical information about Copland, via jigsawing reading strategy, and create a Copland cartoon that will relay their learning to the rest of the class.  Students need to recognize dynamic markings, repeat signs, fermatas, and meter signatures when reading and performing the percussion score.

Blue and Green Choir: will be working on sight reading rhythms in the Rhythm Reader: page 7 exercises 13-17 and perform them as combined patterns.
Song material: Fifty Nifty United States, and various American folk songs from the Songs All Americans Should Know book.

Auditions for 6th graders to be selected to attend the 5/6 North Central Honor Choir will be held on Monday, 1/9 during noon recess. Students must have returned the parent information permission note to be able to audition.
I will be selecting 8 students through a blind audition process to represent our school at this festival.