Topic: Rhythm, Reading Music, Form, Melody, Culture, Meter

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Standards Taught:

1a: Sing independently maintaining a steady beat.

2a: Play instruments in rhythm

2b: Perform melodies on appropriate instruments.

5a: Read quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests in duple meter

6a: Listen to and identify form.

6b: Describe music by answering questions about it.

9c: Identify uses of music in everyday life

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Learning Targets: 

1. Students will be able to understand and demonstrate classroom rules and procedures. 

2. Students will sing using their singing voices. 

3. Students will match pitch. 

4. Students will play on instruments

5. Students will be able to identify quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter rests, and sixteenth notes.

6. Students will be able to perform various rhythms using body percussion and/or instruments

7. Students will be able to identify the line and space notes on a Treble Clef. 

8. Students will be able to hold the recorder the right way, blow the correct air into a recorder, and play the beginning notes BAG.

9. Students will play Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, and Mary Had a Little Lamb on recorder. 

10. Students will be able to identify a call and response song.

11. Students will be able to identify the musical form of a song. 

13. Students will demonstrate proper xylophone playing procedures.

14. Students will sing and demonstrate a partner song and sing in parts. 

15. Students will perform songs from memory. 

16. Students will perform a folk dance. 

17. Students will learn about and sing songs about Hanukah and learn about different holiday celebrations. 

18. Students will be able to identify different meters of a song (time signature) and bar lines. 

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Classroom Activities:

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Welcome 

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Do Re Mi Vocal Warm-Up

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Review

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John Kanakah (folk dance if class hasn't completed it yet)

Jingle Bells

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New Songs: 

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Chanukah Games

Hanuka, Hanuka 

Dreidel song

Children Go Where I Send Thee

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- Discuss Hanukah and different holiday celebrations around the world 

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Meter

- Look at the songs we performed in class

- Discuss how to find the time signature and what it means 

- Find the time signature for each song we sung 

- Time Signature Toast Game 

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Form

- "But the Cat Came Back" 

- Sing through the song

- Discuss the different parts 

- Come up with different movements with ribbons to show the A section and the B section

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Recorders (outside if weather is nice)

- In the Bleak Midwinter

- Continue in Recorder Karate 

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