Topic: Expression, Tempo, Rhythm, Syncopation, Musical Form

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Standards Taught:

1a: Sing with appropriate posture

1b: Sing expressively with appropriate interpretation

1e: Sing in groups, matching dynamic levels

2b: Perform melodies on appropriate instruments

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

5c: Identify and use terms for tempo.

6c: Use appropriate terms to explain music

9a: Listen to and identify music from a different historical period

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

5. Students will be able to identify half notes, dotted half notes, and whole notes

6. Students will be able to perform/demonstrate various rhythms

7. Students will begin reading the Treble Clef

8. Students will perform on the recorder.

9. Students will review proper recorder playing technique, air flow, and the notes B, A, G, D, and E

10. Students will be able to perform/understand syncopated rhythms.

11. Students will show different tempos. 

12. Students will discuss similarities and differences in different music selections. 

13. Students will be able to identify the musical form of a piece. 

14. Students will be able to define what a verse is compared to what the refrain is. 

15. Students will be able to identify the time signature of a piece of music. 

16. Students will be able to define what a bar line is in a piece of music. 

17. Students will demonstrate beats and rhythm. 

18. Students will sing a song about Hanukah and discuss different celebrations around the world. 

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Classroom Activities:

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Welcome 

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Vocal Warm-up: Do Re Mi

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Review: 

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River

Hot Chocolate - syncopated rhythms, singing in parts 

Let it Snow

The Twelve Days of Christmas 

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New songs:

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Eight Little Candles 

- Discuss Hanukah 

- Festival of Lights 

- Listen to the Jewish/Spanish version 

- Sing and follow along 

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Feliz Navidad 

- Spanish 

- Different cultures celebrating Christmas 

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Rise and Shine

- Meter and Bar Lines

- Watch meter/barline video

- Time Signature Toast Game

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Xylophones

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- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

- Jingle Bells 

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Recorders (outside if the weather is nice) 

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- In the Bleak Midwinter 

- Continue in Recorder Karate

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