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Mrs. Angela Simms
Mrs. Angela Simms
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Kindergarten- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. Our focus will be on K.8.1 Describe musical concepts of high or low, fast or slow, and loud or soft through moving or drawing. "Hush Little Baby", "If your happy and you know it", "2 Little Sausages", "Surprise Symphony", Loud and Soft: "Hush Little Baby", "If your happy and you know it", "2 Little Sausages", "Surprise Symphony", Fast and slow: "Get on Board", "Paige's Train", Train story, "Engine Engine", "the Old Gray Cat", High and Low with Beaker and"Paige's train again", "Seesaw", "Bow Wow Wow", "Cookoo Cookoo", "Up down all through the town", "Andy Pandy"
1st Grade: We will be exploring, RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. Our focus will be on 1.6.3 Identify phrases of a song as same or different and listen for repetition of phrases. Students will identify same and different by listening to the piano. Class 1: looking at an example of music, finding the repeating phrases, what is the same and what is different on SMARTboard, listening to classical piece and identifying repetition and differences in the phrases, Class 2: practice with 3 songs to identify while looking at the music
2nd Grade:RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding music in relation to history and culture. Our focus will be 2.9.1 Discuss suitable music for various special occasions and the role it plays. - hats in our culture… Students will get to choose if they want to draw a picture and have the class guess the song title or students will draw a picture on a hat, and we will post on a bulletin board.
3rd Grade: RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. We will focus on 3.8.2 Interpret an aural musical example using dance, drama, art, or writing. Stations… Students are creating and working in groups on "The Marriage of Figaro", we will be discussing its history and information and performing our interpretations.
4th Grade:CREATING MUSIC: Fourth grade took note identification quizzes. We are going to do some further work to make sure all understand the treble musical staff. When students are proficient they will be working on a composing activity. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. We will focus on 4.4.1 Compose a melody for a verse of a selected poem and notate it using traditional or electronic means. Students will need a tablet if they have one, and is able to bring to school to use for our class.
5th- Procedures CREATING MUSIC: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. We will focus on 5.4.1 We are still working on music terms from two weeks ago. We should get through that information in our first class next week and dive into our creating lesson. Plan and perform rhythmic speech compositions with text based on themes such as names, states, or famous people. Include performance indicators such as tempo and dynamics. Students draw to find their theme. Students use tablets to create fact lists.
Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) Choreography, part singing, prop list, practice time. We are working on putting it all together! The kids are working hard, and be asked to do a lot of work to get this show ready. We have had so much leadership step forward. Special Thanks to Mr. Moran for all his work on the stage thus far, many hours have gone into get our stage ready. Thank you to Miss Richardson, Mrs. Welty and Mrs. Newhart for their hard work and time thus far…It takes a great team to make a great show.
6th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music, focus on 6.6.5 Visually and aurally identify traditional string, wind, and percussion instruments, folk instruments, electronic instruments, and those from world cultures. Homework due: required pictures, required facts, required technology. All students need notebooks, folders, pencil and planner. I am still missing some homework from students, please check in to make sure they are getting their work done...
7th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. With a focus on 7.8.3 Identify and label the basic anatomy of the ear and discuss healthy listening habits. Deaf Demonstration: and video. We will be reading this article...Healthy Listening, http://www.howtolearn.com/2011/12/harmful-listening-habits-may-result-in-early-hearing-loss/
8th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: We are still finishing our Jackson Pollock instrumental creations, when they are complete we will be focusing on Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. We will focus on 8.8.2 Interpret an example of absolute music, such as a movement from a Mozart concerto, through drawing and poetry or descriptive writing. Students in groups of 3, provide with a piece for them to find on youtube.com; will be compete for best created trio at the end of class.
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