Music Agenda 4/15-4/19

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AFD Schedule Changes...Next week, we will have be adding practices on Thursdays 4/18 and Friday 4/19 from 3:00-4:00.  Although 8th graders are very busy, we are asking they attend with their peers two specific rehearsals, Fri., 4/26 (return from DC), 3:00 and Fri., 5/3 (May Day), eighth grade return to school at 3:00.  We want to make sure all are prepared for the show. Here are a few rehearsals on the schedule currently, but there will be time changes. Mon., 5/6, 3:00-5:00, Tues., 5/7 3:00-5:00, Wednesday., 5/8 Dress Rehearsal 6:00-8:00, student call time the night of the show will come later.  Any questions, please let me know!  
 

Kindergarten: 
5 Green and Speckled Frogs, 5 Little Muffins

1st grade :
Learning some new music terms, "pattern" and "Line" through moving and drawing.  Students will find connections between other curricular areas and music.  Students will learn about how listening, reading and moving is important in music. 
 2nd Grade:
"Peter and the Wolf" story continued...kids will focus on terms, and learn about other instruments in the Brass, Woodwind, Percussion and String Families.

  3rd Grade:
Barred instruments- echoing rhythmic patterns, reading notes, learning instrument names and learning instruments of other cultures.  Students will be assessed on their understanding of the different instruments, and their effort and participation with echoing and reading music lines.

4th Grade:
Recorders!!! Kids are really working hard to achieve their beads.  The beads are given to them to show when they have successfully completed a piece on recorder.  They are working very hard and practicing is going well!

 
5^th grade:
Sight Singing and partner songs continued, they will be assessed over their effort and participation with the partner work in singing.

Annual Fund Dinner Class
Encourage kids to work on lines, dances, and singing.  We have had a  few scheduling changes.  Please see note above.

Jubilance Choir
Participates weekly in the Wednesday Masses and some students canter on Friday Masses, throughout the year.  Since Annual Fund practice has begun, please look for updates under that section.

6th Grade:
We are looking at Program Music related to history in Europe.  One example is Tchaikovsky's Overture.  We will create a timeline to discuss dates of other program music examples

7th Grade:
Students will be playing instruments in stations.  The instrument stations will include; Piano, Barred Instruments, and rhythm instruments.  Students will have a task to complete at each station which will require them to play the instruments and the music pieces in front of them.  Students final assessment  will be over their knowledge of the musical staff, piano key location and rhythmic knowledge.

8th Grade:
Students will play as arrangers in music.  They will take a piece of music and change it to make it their own.  They will be using the netbooks, and the program finale notepad to listen to their compositions.