Topic: Rhythm, Reading Music, Expression, Texture, Form

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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. 

12. Students will be able to identify a Call and Response song. 

13. Students will discuss call and response in African American Spirituals. 

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Classroom Activities:

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Welcome

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Review Songs:

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"Black Snake" 

"John Kanaka" - Question and Answer (recorder part) 

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New Songs:

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"Mister Ram Goat-O" - eighth notes and syncopation

"Great Day" - Call and Response

"Oh, Won't You Sit Down" - Call and Response

"I'm on My Way" - Call and Response

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Jingle Jam

* Continue working on showcase music

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Pick the Apple Rhythm Dictation Game

   * Students will be put into groups

   * Teacher will play a rhythm (different levels of rhythms per grade) 

   * Students will have to work together to find the rhythm on the card the teacher played

   * Assessment : reading music, listening, rhythms

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Percussion or boomwhacker play-along with Halloween themed music

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Recorder

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Continue working on B, A, and G notes on Recorder

   * Hot Cross Buns

   * Gently Sleep

   * Mary Had a Little Lamb

   * In the Bleak Midwinter (Home for the Holidays piece) 

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If class is ready, introduce E. 

   * Snail, Snail song

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Topic: Rhythm, Reading Music, Form, Partner Songs

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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. 

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Classroom Activities:

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Welcome

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Review Songs:

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"John Kanaka" - Question and Answer (recorder part) 

"Michael Finnigan"

"This Old Man" 

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New Songs:

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"Mister Ram Goat-O" - eighth notes and syncopation

"Great Day" - Call and Response

"Oh, Won't You Sit Down" - Call and Response

"I'm on My Way" - Call and Response

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Holiday Highlights

  * Continue working on Winter Fantasy for Holiday Hightlights Video 

  * Practice singing in parts

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Pick the Apple Rhythm Dictation Game (Level 2 if class has completed level 1)

   * Students will be put into groups

   * Teacher will play a rhythm (different levels of rhythms per grade) 

   * Students will have to work together to find the rhythm on the card the teacher played

   * Assessment : reading music, listening, rhythms

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Xylophones

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- Review xylophone playing procedures

- "Jingle Bells"

- "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"

- "Feliz Navidad" 

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Recorder

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Continue working on B, A, and G notes on Recorder

   * Hot Cross Buns

   * Gently Sleep

   * Mary Had a Little Lamb

   * In the Bleak Midwinter (Holiday Highlights piece) 

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If class is ready, introduce E. 

   * Snail, Snail song