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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.Â
Below are the main targets that we will be focusing in on in music class this year.Â
Click on the quarter to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities and the big things we will be learning!Â
Click on the quarter to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities and the big things we will be learning!Â
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:
Solidifying Re
Great Big House
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Solidifying Half Notes (One Long Sound that Lasts for 2 Beats)
Cut the Cake
Movement Skills:Â
Movement Skills:Â
Longways Sets and Seasonal Dances
Heel and Toe Polka
Carnavalito (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15th - Oct 15th)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Ensemble Work: Playing in Parts on the Orff InstrumentsÂ
2-4-6-8 Meet Me at the Garden Gate
Second Quarter
Second Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Solidifying Re
Long Legged Sailor
Introduction to Low Sol and Low La
Old Brass Wagon
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Introduction to Dotted Half Notes (Long Sound Lasting 3 Beats) and Whole Notes (Long Sound Lasting for 4 Beats)
All Through the Night (Whole Note)
Nino Querido (Dotted Half Note)
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Solidifying Folk Dance Vocabulary Circle Formation & Concentric Circles (Partner Switching)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Ensemble Work: Playing in Parts on the Orff Instruments (Form and Improvisation)
Down to the Baker's Shop
Third Quarter
Third Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Solidifying Low Sol and Low La
Pomme de Reinette
Old King Glory
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Introduction to Tam Di (Dotted Quarter Note and Eighth Note Pairs)
Early to Bed
Ham and Eggs
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Solidifying Folk Dance Vocabulary in Longways Sets (Whole Line Sashays Around)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Composing in Groups
Finding Form in Design
Ensemble Work: Playing in Parts on the Orff Instruments
Three Little Monkeys
Fourth Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Solidifying Low Sol and Low La
Monkey See and Monkey Do
To Stop the Train
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Solidifying Tam Di (Dotted Quarter Note and Eighth Note Pairs)
Ama Lama
Sei Sei Sei (AAPI Month: May)
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Solidifying Folk Dance Vocabulary/ Reinforcing Casting Off
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Ensemble Work: Playing in Parts on the Orff Instruments
Sakura (AAPI Month: May)
Ukulele Introduction (C Chord)
Best Day of My Life
Ho Hey!
Books We Have Read This Year
Books We Have Read This Year
We LOVE to read in music class!Â
We LOVE to read in music class!Â
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:
Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
Esquivel: Space Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th)
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engel (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept 15th - Oct. 15th)
Shake dem Halloween Bones by Mike Reed
This Land is Your Land by Kathy Jakobsen (Veterans Day: Nov. 11th)
Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child (Indigenous Peoples Month: Nov.)
The Nutcracker
Ella Queen of Jazz by Helen Hancocks (Black History Month: Feb.)
EGBDF the Musical Yak by Katie Terrell Ramos
FACE the Musical Flamingo by Katie Terrell Ramos
Gibberish by Young Vo (AAPI Month: May)
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