Pickering Valley Music Class

November/December Newsletter Mrs. Shannon Kamph Special Notes Grade by Grade

Kindergarten Winter Concert  Fall: high/low December, 4th  Beat Box on Smartboard: rhythm Dress-up Day! (quarter, eighth)  Rake the Leaves: create movement/improvise  One Potato: counting/beat All grades will be discussing  The Baby Mice: instruments Concert Etiquette.  1 Little Candle: culture, sing We will discuss how to be a  March of the Toys: instruments, good audience at different conductor events and proper etiquette  Bundle: poem, internalize during a concert. First Grade  I’m Thankful: sing, rhythm, culture  The Squirrel: Movement, high/low  Chase the Squirrel: high/low, glockenspiels Can you name this instrument?  Magic Stick Rhythm: Smartboard activity

 Yankee Doodle: Song, phrases, instruments  Five Fat Turkey Game: Listening game  Pease Porride Hot: Rhythm Con’t

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 Five Little Turkeys: Poem, Third Grade internalize, wood blocks  There are Many Flags in Many  Yuki Song: steady beat Lands: Patriotic song  Hanukkah is Here: instruments  Bear Hunting Song: Rhythm, 3  Time for Toys: Sing, form, rhythm parts (quarter, half, whole notes)  Oh What Fun!: Rhythm reading  Leap to the Staff: Smartboard line  I Have Lost My Jingle Bell: and space note Passing/listening game  Rhythm DASD review and assessment Second Grade  Old Tom Turkey: rhythm game  Cooking Football and Turkey:  Great Big House: folk song, Singing instruments  Sol Mi Singing: Smartboard Solfege  Rhythm Training: echo percussion  Let Us Chase the Squirrel:  Burn Little Candles: crossover instruments  Beethoven: history  Bass/Alto/Soprano: Instrument  Nutcracker March: rhythm Q&A names  All ‘Round the Brickyard: Fourth Grade improvisation  America, the Beautiful: patriotic  Rhythm Check: listen and identify song, dotted quarter, eighth note  Mable, Mable: poem,  Tideo: folk song, 16th note review, improvisation instruments  Jeremiah: poem, dynamics  Rhythm DASD review and  The Dreydl Song: sing, internalize assessment  Giddy-Up My Burro: xylophones  Get Down: poem, ostinato  Up on the Housetop: instruments  French Song: recorders Con’t  Dancing Snowflakes: instruments

th 4 Grade Con’t  Rhythmic Canon: internalize, drums  Dreidle, Spin: song, recorders, 2 parts  Christmas Bells: solfege, xylophones, round  Jump! (Trepak): form, movement

Fifth Grade  America (My Country ‘tis of thee): patriotic song, dotted quarter, eighth note  Hot Tunes Recorder: Hosisipa, recorders  Charles Ives: composer study, Variations on America  Thanksgiving is Near: syncopation, solfege, xylophones  Rhythm Flash Cards: Smartboard, 16th note/8th combinations  Gavotte: Bach composer study, rhythm study, internalize  Hanukkah Celebration: song, rhythm review, instruments  Hot Tunes Recorder: Jolly Old St. Nick  Christmas is Coming: song, chord progressions, xylophones

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