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. 

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Classroom Activities:

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Welcome

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New Songs:

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"River" - Musical Form, verse and refrain

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Review:

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"We Go Together" - Discuss Doo-Wop Singing, Listen to "In the Still of the Night"  

"Somebody's Knocking at Your Door" - Syncopated rhythms

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Rhythm Land Activity - Tempo, steady beat, syncopated rhythms

   * Students will "travel" to different lands and walk in different rhythms

   * Tempos will change with the songs

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Pick the Apple Rhythm Dictation Game

   * Students will work in groups to find the rhythm the teacher plays on multiple note cards

   * Assessment: Listening, team work, reading music

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Holiday Highlights

   * Continue working on "Hot Chocolate"

   * Split each class into 3 groups for the song 

   * Add Harmonies

   

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Recorders: 

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- Review/Learn proper recorder playing technique

- Slow Warm Air

- BAG 

- Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, Mary Had a Little Lamb

- If class is ready, introduce E and D

- "In the Bleak Midwinter" 

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Xylophones

Review proper xylophone playing and procedures

"Jingle Bells"

Start with body percussion, add mallets 

- Reading music, reading rhythms

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Treble Clef Speed Game if time is needed