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.