Music Agenda 4/7-4/11

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   Week of 4/31-4/4 Students will be on Spring Break
   
   
   Kindergarten-  "Johnny Works with one hammer", "Hickory Dickory Dock" "Stars and Stripe Forever", "The Washing Machine Surprise", "Hickety Tickety Bumble Bee", "Old Macdonald", we are working on  creating steady beat with instruments- using these songs.
   
   
   1st Grade: We will be watching the K-2 Program from last year.  Students will be evaluating their performance and the other groups in the program
   
   
   2nd Grade: Boomwhackers in music, let's play.  We will also learn about other instruments in the classroom and world cultures. 
   
   
   3rd Grade:  We will be reading music and playing barred instruments.  We will focus on different standards for each class period.  Here are the standards we will be covering 3.2.1 Echo melodic and rhythmic patterns.,3.2.2  Play given pitch patterns on a mallet instrument, keyboard, or recorder., 3.2.3  Play instruments in a group with a steady beat, appropriate dynamics, and correct technique., 3.2.4  Use correct names for classroom instruments including those from world cultures.3.2.5  Play four-measure melodies on pitched percussion instruments.3.2.6  Play ostinato accompaniments on pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments, independently and with others. 3.2.7  Follow the cues of a conductor. 
   

   
   
   4th Grade: Recorders!!! Students will need to bring them to every class period.  Students will need to practice at home!  Students will be "Hot Cross Buns" due after break.  We worked in class on it.  They are welcome to start the 2nd song "Gently Sleep" and beyond they will play for grades.
   
   
   5th-  We will begin looking at piano playing.  Students will learn some basic piano skills using the IPADs, books and print offs as keyboards. 
   
   
   Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) students need to keep practicing lines, we are forgetting them.  Students are improving daily with singing!  The music in the show is very difficult, and they kids are really giving it their all! We have added at Friday Night show May 9th to the public, so please make sure students are available that night! 
   
   6th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Presentations of instruments with sound clips.  We will be learning about different voicing types and which vocal ranges we fall into.  Also working on expanding our vocal range with warm ups.
   
   
   7th-  7.8.2  Define the physical properties of sound including frequency, amplitude, and wavelength.  How does sound connect to Science?  They will watch "Bill Nye" and learn about the science of music and sound.  They will write about what they learn. We will be doing experiments to see how science is music. 

   
   
   
   
   8th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC:  Students will begin using choir chimes in class and playing as an ensemble.  

Music Agenda 3/24-3/27

1. Kindergarten- "Rock and Roll Rhythm Band", "Johnny Works with one hammer", "Hickory Dickory Dock" "Stars and Stripe Forever", "The Washing Machine Surprise", "Hickety Tickety Bumble Bee", "Old Macdonald", we are working on  creating steady beat with instruments- using these songs.
   
   
   1st Grade:  Music Importance at home, school and in the community.  Students will create a folded book, with art work of what is important to with music at home, school and the community.
   2nd Grade: Boomwhackers in music, let's play.  We will also learn about other instruments in the classroom and world cultures. 
   
   
   3rd Grade:  We will be reading music and playing barred instruments
   

   
   
   4th Grade: Recorders!!! Students will need to bring them to every class period.  Students will need to practice at home! 
   
   
   
   5th- Procedures  Performing Speech Compositions, when finished.  We will begin looking at piano playing.  Students will learn some basic piano skills using the IPADs as keyboards. 
   
   
   Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) Students are working so hard, students need to keep practicing lines, we are forgetting them.  Students are improving daily with singing!  We have added at Friday Night show May 9th to the public, so please make sure students are available that night! 
   
   6th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Presentations of instruments with sound clips
   
   
   
   7th-  7.8.2  Define the physical properties of sound including frequency, amplitude, and wavelength.  How does sound connect to Science?  They will watch "Bill Nye" and learn about the science of music and sound.  They will write about what they learn. We will be doing experiments to see how science is music.  Some students have been asked to bring in different materials to do experiments.

   
   
   
   
   8th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC:  Performing pieces created in class. Students will begin using choir chimes in class and playing as an ensemble.  

Music Agenda 3/17-3/21

Kindergarten- Using our different voices- Speaking, Singing, Calling, Audiating, and Whispering.

1st Grade:  Music Importance at home, school and in the community.  Students will create a folded book, with art work of what is important to with music at home, school and the community.

2nd Grade:RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding music in relation to history and culture. Our focus will be 2.9.2  Discover the role of music from earlier periods in history such as the music of Native Americans and its relationship to other elements in the society. We will be listening, singing and moving as we learn.

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. Performing continues…

4th Grade: RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Reading, notating, and interpreting music, we will be working on a couple of  standards, the classes are in different places: 4.5.1  Read, notate, and perform quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, half, dotted half, sixteenth, and whole notes, and quarter, half, and whole rests in duple and triple meters using rhythm syllables.  We will be doing recorders in a few weeks, form should be home.  Kids were given it today, and please just let me know if you need me to order a recorder.  Money can can be sent in later. 

5th- Procedures  CREATING MUSIC: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.   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 will also be reviewing terms again.

Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) Part singing!  . 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.  We were looking to add practice the week before Spring Break.  We only were scheduled for Monday the week of conferences.  We are looking at having  practice Wednesday and Thursday of that week.

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.  We are creating presentations on educations, and working on compiling and presenting information.  Also working on 6.8.2  Respond to specific writing prompts such as, “How is listening to music different than looking at art or reading a poem?” 

7th-  7.8.2  Define the physical properties of sound including frequency, amplitude, and wavelength.  How does sound connect to Science?  They will watch "Bill Nye" and learn about the science of music and sound.  They will write about what they learn.

8th- RESPONDING TO MUSIC:  We are still finishing our Jackson Pollock instrumental creations and performing.

Music Agenda 3/10-1/14

Kindergarten- RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.  Our focus will be on K.6.3  Compare vocal tone qualities such as whispering, singing, and speaking.  We will review,"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"  Then we will start using our 5 different voices.

1st Grade: We will be exploring, RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.  Our focus will be on 1.6.2  Identify various vocal, instrumental, and environmental sounds.   Students will identify using the SMARTBOARD.  On the second day we will be moving throughout the building and going outside weather permitting to listen for sounds.  We will char the sounds in the classroom.

2nd Grade:RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding music in relation to history and culture. Our focus will be 2.9.2  Discover the role of music from earlier periods in history such as the music of Native Americans and its relationship to other elements in the society. We will be listening, singing and moving as we learn.

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", Students will finish work and perform.

4th Grade: RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Reading, notating, and interpreting music, we will be working on a couple of  standards, the classes are in different places: 4.5.1  Read, notate, and perform quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, half, dotted half, sixteenth, and whole notes, and quarter, half, and whole rests in duple and triple meters using rhythm syllables. We will also 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. We will be doing recorders in a few weeks, form to be home asap.

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.   We will be reviewing.  We will also be looking back at 5.5.6  Identify and apply terms and symbols found in musical scores.  WE need to re

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 be finishing this project next week.

Music Agenda 3/3-3/7

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Kindergarten-  Continued practice and work with: 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 1.6.1  Show changes in tempo, dynamics, and mood using movement in response to music. Listening and Moving to…"Surprise Symphony", "Race you down the mountain",  "Major and Minor", Welcome Song with tempo, mood and dynamic changes, "Glory to you" with tempo, mood and dynamic changes, Crescendo and Decrescendos- drawing  and listening

2nd Grade:RESPONDING TO MUSIC: Understanding music in relation to history and culture. Our focus will be 2.9.2  Discover the role of music from earlier periods in history such as the music of Native Americans and its relationship to other elements in the society. Learning through a presentation, answering questions with a quiz online.

3rd Grade: ISTEP Week- We play and review with activities with movement!

4th Grade: ISTEP Week-We play and review with activities with movement!

5th- Procedures  ISTEP Week-We play and review with activities with movement!

All Middle School Students will move in morning with Unified Arts Teachers aka Specials.  We will get their blood pumping and their brains motivated for learning! 
Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) ISTEP Week, After school practices only, Memorization grade on lines for show.  Students will get weekly graders for Energy, Acting, and presentation.  

6th- ISTEP Week

7th- ISTEP Week

8th- ISTEP Week