Music Notes Mrs

MUSIC MUSIC NOTESNOTES May 2013

Mrs. Ahmad and Mrs. Edwards

KINDERGARTEN

Standard(s): MKGM.1b: Echo simple singing and speech patterns. MKGM.10a: Respond to contrasts, events, and sections in music with gross locomotor and non-locomotor movements. MKGM.1c: Sing from memory multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures including songs in a foreign language.

Objectives: 1. The student will transition naming long and short sounds to ta and ti-ti sounds while readi The student will sing, play and dance to show variations in form. 2. The student will be able to identify echo singing, speech patterns, call & response and verse & refrain forms in music.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Hello There, Shuga Bee, Jack Be Nimble, Who Has the Penny, Dinner Music, I Got a Letter this Morning, Koriko, Rig a Jig Jig, The Dancing Tree, Going to the Zoo, Singin’ in the Tub and Mi Cuerpo hace musica.

FIRST GRADE

Standard(s): M1GM.1b: Echo simple singing and speech patterns; perform call and response songs. M1GM.6a: Distinguish between contrasts (pitch, dynamics, tempo, timbre, AB, ABA, verse and refrain) in various pieces of music. M1GM.1c: Sing from memory multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures including songs in a foreign language. Objectives: 1. The students will learn to distinguish between sections in a song. 2. The students will label sections of a song. 3. The students will change movements to show the changing sections of a song.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Down by the Bay, Mashed Potatoes, Shortnin’ Bread, Shoo Turkey, Amerfuri, Vesh lanu taish, The Rain Sings a Song and B A Bay.

SECOND GRADE

Standard(s): M2GM.2b: Perform simple body percussion and instrumental parts (such as ostinati) while other students play or sing contrasting parts. M2GM.6c: Identify classroom, folk, and various orchestral instruments by sight and sound.

Objectives: 1. To aurally recognize percussion and brass instruments. 2. To visually recognize percussion and brass instruments. 3. To describe the differing sounds of percussion and brass instruments. 4. To sort rhythm instruments into families.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun activities including: playing instruments, listening to instrumental excerpts, researching instruments in the computer lab and dividing rhythm instruments into families.

THIRD GRADE

Standard(s): M3GM.1d: Sing and identify a simple sequence of pitches which include low Sol, low La, Do, Re, Mi, Sol, La, and high Do. M3GM.10d: Demonstrate with Curwen hand signs low Sol, low La, Do, Re, Mi, Sol, La, and high Do. M3GM.4b: Improvise simple pentatonic melodies and accompaniments.

Objectives: 1. The students will sing new songs using Solfege syllables. 2. The students will use correct hand signs to show the pitches of a new song. 3. The students will read and play the Pentatonic scale.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: I See the Moon, Old Man Mosie, Hop Up My Ladies and The Magnificent Seven.

FOURTH GRADE

Quaver News: Quaver Marvelous World of Music is a new technology based music series that is being incorporated into the 4th and 5th grade music curriculum. This month’s themes are Chords & Harmony and Form.

In this unit students will learn:

1. Chords provide the harmony for melodies. 2. Chords are three or more notes played simultaneously. 3. Chord construction of C,F and G. 4. Chords C, F, and G can be used to play many well-known pieces. 5. Chord charts are a way of notation chords. 6. How form helps us to organize and compose music. 7. How contrasting musical sections A, B, and C fit together in a piece of music. 8. How to identify and create an ABACA form, called a rondo. 9. How to recognize theme and variations in a piece of music.

FIFTH GRADE

Quaver News: Quaver Marvelous World of Music is a new technology based music series that is being incorporated into the 4th and 5th grade music curriculum. This month’s themes are Chords & Harmony and Form.

In this unit students will learn:

1. Chords provide the harmony for melodies. 2. Chords are three or more notes played simultaneously. 3. Chord construction of C,F and G. 4. Chords C, F, and G can be used to play many well-known pieces. 5. Chord charts are a way of notation chords. 6. How form helps us to organize and compose music. 7. How contrasting musical sections A, B, and C fit together in a piece of music. 8. How to identify and create an ABACA form, called a rondo. 9. How to recognize theme and variations in a piece of music.

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THE CHORUS LINE

The Lake Windward Chorus is busy preparing for our spring concert season. We have six songs that cover many different styles of music which we are working on at this time. Some concepts that are being taught include: phrasing, diction, dynamics, melodic movement, vowel sounds and choreography.

Our Lake Windward school concert date for both the 4th and 5th grade choruses is May 14. School concerts start at 7:00 pm. Students should be at school by 6:30 pm for a rehearsal prior to each concert. All students will wear a white shirt and black pants/skirts with dark colored shoes! We will also have assemblies on May 13 at 8:15 am and 9:00 am and parents are invited to attend those concerts as well!

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