Noteworthy News-Sept. 30

Thank you to all who supported the music fundraiser this year.
The 6th graders sold $3854.00 worth of magazine subscriptions and brought in 30 reach out booklets.
Ryann Sander was our top seller with over $600 in sales and Abby Nelson was second in orders sold.
Way to go, 6th graders!!  What a team effort.

I am putting out a call for a few volunteers to help me in the next few weeks.
I am in need of some help with filing and filling out of assessment sheets.
Please contact me by phone 444-4300 ext. 351 or by email: amy.pollitt@bkcsd.org if you are willing to be of assistance.  Thank you in advance!!

Assessment update:
All of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders have finished their first music assessment.
Kdgn and First graders will complete their first standards testing this week.
Look for assessment cards in your child's portfolio at first quarter conferences.

Lesson plans:

Kdgn: Students will continue working on voice placement, tone matching, and keeping steady beat.
Material: The Kermit Toss game, Doggie, Doggie, Where's my Bone? the Hiding game, Pause, and rhythm stick routines.

First and Second grade: Students continue working on folk songs and singing games.
Material: Paw-Paw patch, If You're Happy and You Know It, This Old Man and The Fire Song.
Tone matching ;Sol, Mi, and Do.  Reading rhythmic patterns with quarter rests.

Third grade:Students will be working on their Star Spangled Banner unit this week.
Learning the melody and rhythm, identifying new vocabulary terms, playing charades to act out vocabulary, measuring the flag of Ft. McHenry outside with meter sticks, and viewing Internet sites to see pictures of the flag, Francis Scott Key, Ft. McHenry, and Mary Pickersgill-the creator of the flag.  Students will also create a paper flag of 1812, identify the 15 states in the union at that time and complete a vocabulary worksheet.  Students will also be working on the Bronco Fight Song.

Fourth grade: Students will continue working on the lines and spaces of the treble clef.  Work study stations will be used on one class period.  Pre-testing worksheet and game of Human Staff will be played.  Students will play Fireman Fred, playing boomwackers and xylophones while reading the song.  Students will begin their accompaniment composition with the song Jack-o-lantern on xylophones and keyboards.

Fifth and Sixth grade: Students will be working on their new unit-American composer John Philip Sousa and his march "The Stars and Stripes Forever." Students will learn the form by creative marching, read a percussion chart and play it on four different instruments- reading quarter notes and rests.  Students will create their own listening maps for the march, identifying the three different melodic themes.
Students will view the video "The New Sousa Band" and read a short biography about Sousa's life and complete a crossword puzzle with new vocabulary terms.

5th grade chorus:  This Old Man, Bronco Fight Song, Watah Come a me Eye, America, and God Bless America.

6th grade chorus: This Old Man, Watah Come a me Eye, Song of the Unsung Hero, and God Bless America.