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MUSIC MUSIC NOTESNOTES November 2012

Mrs. Ahmad and Mrs. Edwards

KINDERGARTEN

The Kindergarten students are busy preparing for our Nov. 14 Thanksgiving musical performance. All Kindergarten parents are invited to attend. The show will begin at 9:15 am then plan to stay for Thanksgiving lunch!

FIRST GRADE

Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:

1. Move on the steady beat as the tempo changes. 2. Sing a song in Spanish while tapping the rhythm of the words. 3. Read and perform rhythm patterns with one or two sounds per beat. 4. Perform locomotor and nonlocomotor movements to like and different phrases in a call-and-response song. 5. Perform hand movements to show contour of a melody. 6. Sing and read a song with so and mi from iconic notation. 7. Identify different objects and instruments by the sounds that they produce. 8. Perform a body-percussion ostinato while singing.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Shine, Shine, Shine, Freight Train, Bee, Bee, Bumblebee, Rain, Rain, Shortnin' Bread, Great Big Stars, Lady, Lady, The Wind Blew East, Charlie Over the Water and Hey, Hey, Look at Me.

SECOND GRADE

1. Move to a song that gets faster and slower. 2. Read rhythm patterns from notation that include quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests. 3. Play rhythm patterns. 4. Move on the strong beats of a song. 5. Sing a blues song in AAB form. 6. Sing a song with so, mi, and la using hand signs. 7. Read so, mi, and la from notation. 8. Identify the skips, steps, and repeated pitches in a song and a listening selection. 9. Identify and label various drum timbres. 10.Compose a layered ostinato piece. 11.Play a multi-layered percussion accompaniment.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: The Music's in Me, Miss Mary Mack, Frog in the Millpond, Four in the Boat, Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard, Good Mornin', Blues, El Juego Chirimbolo, Clouds of Gray, I See the Moon”, “Down the Ohio:, Achshav and Ayelivi.

THIRD GRADE Third grade is continuing the recorder unit. Please help your third grade children remember to bring their recorders to school on their music day!

1. Show tempo changes in a recorded piece by creating a rhythmic ostinato accompaniment. 2. Sing and clap rhythms that include ties and syncopations. 3. Read a song that includes syncopation. 4. Sing a song and perform accompanying ostinatos with syncopated rhythms. 5. Move to demonstrate the responses in a call-and-response song. 6. Use different movements to accompany different phrases. 7. Move to show melodic contour. 8. Sing and use hand signs to show low la in relation to new notes. 9. Sing and show using hand signs low la in a song. 10.Sing using good tone quality and diction. 11.Sing a call-and-response song with overlapping parts that create harmony. 12.Play an ostinato accompaniment.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Peppermint Twist, Train is A-comin', Black Snake, Mister Ram Goat-O, Ahora Voy a Cantarles, Great Day, John Kanaka, The Loco-Motion, One Morning Soon, and Hosisipa, Family Tree and I'm on My Way. 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 Duration and Pitch.

1. Discover that whole, half, quarter and eighth notes are essential to basic music writing. 2. Learn that each note symbol has a specific number of beats. 3. Acquire the skill of writing down note durations. 4. Read and perform note patterns. 5. Distinguish high and low sounds. 6. Identify the wave form of high and low pitches. 7. Perform high and low sounds, both vocally and with instruments 8. Differentiate intervals in pitch.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: The Sleeping Giant, Kangahop, Spacey, Quarter Note March, Alien Wedding, Flippy, Oom Pah, Piccolo Flight, Bassooning, Violin Reel, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s ll Trovatore, Street Musician and Recorder Jingle.

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 Duration and Pitch.

1. Discover that whole, half, quarter and eighth notes are essential to basic music writing. 2. Learn that each note symbol has a specific number of beats. 3. Acquire the skill of writing down note durations. 4. Read and perform note patterns. 5. Distinguish high and low sounds. 6. Identify the wave form of high and low pitches. 7. Perform high and low sounds, both vocally and with instruments 8. Differentiate intervals in pitch.

These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: The Sleeping Giant, Kangahop, Spacey, Quarter Note March, Alien Wedding, Flippy, Oom Pah, Piccolo Flight, Bassooning, Violin Reel, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s ll Trovatore, Street Musician and Recorder Jingle.

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THE CHORUS LINE

The Lake Windward Chorus is busy preparing for our winter concert season. We have seven songs that cover many different styles of music which we are working on at this time. Some concepts that are being taught during November are: phrasing, diction, dynamics, melodic movement, vowel sounds and choreography. Our first concert will be at Alpharetta High School (in the auditorium) at 6:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 8. Students should be in their seats by 6:30. We will be singing along with Creekview ES, Webb Bridge MS and Alpharetta HS. This will be an exciting concert….and everyone is invited to join us! (Arrive early as seats will be limited.) Our Lake Windward school concert dates for both the 4th and 5th grade choruses are Dec. 4 and May 14. School concerts start at 7:00 pm. Students should be at school by 6:30 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 Dec. 3 and May 13 at 8:15 am and 9:00 am and parents are invited to attend those concerts as well!

We look forward to performing for you!!!

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