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What Will We Be Learning in Music?
What Will We Be Learning in Music?
Below are the main targets that we will be focusing in on in music class this year.
Below are the main targets that we will be focusing in on in music class this year.
Click on the quarter to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities and the big things we will be learning!
Click on the quarter to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities and the big things we will be learning!
If the title of the song or activity is underlined then you can click it and it will take you to a link to watch the song on YouTube!
First Quarter
First Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Sol and Mi (Labeling: High and Low)
Bernie Bee
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Ta and Tadi (Lebeling: 1 and 2 Sounds on a Beat)
Movement Skills:
Movement Skills:
Circle Dances/ Seasonal Pieces
Old Brass Wagon
La Raspa (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 16 - Oct. 16)
Jig Circle
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Exploring Orff Instruments (Xylophones, Metallophones, and Glockenspiels)
Peas Porridge Hot
I Think Music's Neat
Mortimer
Second Quarter
Second Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Solidifying Sol and Mi
Cobbler Cobbler
Star Light, Star Bright
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Introduction of Quarter Rest
The Muffin Man
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Introduction to Longways Sets (Dancing in Two Long Lines)
Broom Dance
Oh a Hunting We Will Go
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Exploring Orff Instruments (Xylophone, Metallophone, Glockenspiel)
Room on the Broom (Glissando, Knocking, High and Low)
Apple Tree (Steady Beat)
Reviewing Non Pitched Percussion Instruments (Rhythm Sticks, Maracas, Etc.)
The Gingerbread Man
Third Quarter
Third Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Introduction to La
Snail, Snail
Bounce High, Bounce Low
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Practicing Quarter Rest
Naughty Kitty Cat
Wee Willie Winkie
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Solidifying Long Ways Sets (Right and Left Arm Turn, Partner Clap, Etc.) and Seasonal Dances
Irish Stew (St. Patrick's Day: March 17th)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Orff High and Low Exploration
Performing Two Parts on the Orff Instruments (Steady Beat and an Accent)
Queen of Hearts
Drumming (Rhythm and Improvisation)
Wee Willie Winkie
Fourth Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Solidifying La
We are Dancing in the Forest
Rain, Rain
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Solidifying Quarter Rest
Hot Cross Buns
Pease Porridge Hot
Movement Skills:
Movement Skills:
Solidifying Longways Sets
Mixed Formation Clapping Games
Miss Mary Mack
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Orff Exploration (Glissando, High and Low, Knocking, Accents, Melodic Part, Tremolo)
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Books We Have Read This Year
Books We Have Read This Year
We LOVE to read in music class!
We LOVE to read in music class!
Below is the list of the books we have read or will read this year:
Below is the list of the books we have read or will read this year:
Peanut Butter and Cupcake by Terry Border
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro
Mortimer by Robert Munsch
De Colores by Patty Rodriguez (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 16 - Oct. 16)
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro
Wheels on the Tuk Tuk by Kabir Sehgal (Diwali: Nov. 12th)
Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood by Valerie Pfundstein (Veterans Day: Nov. 11th)
Run Turkey, Run by Diane Mayr
Gingerbread Man by Eric A. Kimmel
The Nutcracker
Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle
Jack B. Ninja by Tim McCanna
Snail Mail by Julia Patton
When Skip Met Step by Vicky Weber
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt (Black History Month: Feb.)
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russel-Brown (Black History Month: Feb.)
How to Trap a Leprechaun by Sue Fliess (St. Patrick's Day: Mar. 17th)
Hop Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Little Bunny Foo Foo by Paul Brett Johnson
Miss Mary Mack by Mary Ann Hoberman
In the Quiet Noisy Woods by Michael J. Rosen
Four Seasons: Storybook Orchestra
Thunder Boomer by Shutta Crum
Fly Little Bird by Ingo Blum (AAPI Month: May)
Thunderstorm Dancing by Katrina Germein
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