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.