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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 labels below to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities we will be doing and the big things we will be learning throughout each quarter of the year!
Click on the labels below to open the drop down menu and read all about the activities we will be doing and the big things we will be learning throughout each quarter of the year!
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 or activity on YouTube!
First Quarter
First Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Minor Scales (Decoding, performing, and reading pitches off the five line staff in la based minor)
Halloween
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Syncopa (Eighth, quarter, eighth syncopated rhythms)
Scraping Up Sand
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Refining Vocabulary in Longways Sets (Calling while students are dancing in two long lines)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Recorder
Recorder Karate
Second Quarter
Second Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Major Diatonic Scales (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do')
Can You Plant Your Cabbage So?
Sleigh Ride
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Takadi and Tadimi (Eighth and Sixteenth Note Pairs)
Scraping Up Sand
Chick-a-li-le-lo
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Circle Dances (Refining folk dance vocabulary and partner switching)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Recorder
Recorder Karate
Third Quarter
Third Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Major Diatonic Scales (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do') & Minor Scales (La, Ti, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La)
Ama Lama
Sandy's Mill
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Takadi and Tadimi (Eighth and Sixteenth Note Pairs)
Drop Peter
Triplet (Three sounds on the same beat all of the same value)
One Bottle of Pop
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Circle Dances (Refining folk dance vocabulary and partner switching)
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Ensemble Work (Playing together, listening to other parts, working on practicing on their own)
Lunar New Year
All You Need is Love
Fourth Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Melodic Skills:
Melodic Skills:
Major Diatonic Scales (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do')
Jack and Jill
The Robin
Rhythmic Skills:
Rhythmic Skills:
Takadi and Tadimi (Eighth and Sixteenth Note Pairs)
Donkey Riding
Ain't Gonna Ring No More
Folk Dancing Skills:
Folk Dancing Skills:
Refining Vocabulary in Longways Sets (Calling while students are dancing in two long lines)
Zip It Up
Boston Tea Party
Instrument Skills:
Instrument Skills:
Ensemble Work (Playing together, listening to other parts, working on practicing on their own)
Hot Lunch Jam
Ukulele
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:
Seeds and Trees by Brandon Walden
When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana by Michael Mahin (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th)
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood (Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th)
Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud (Indigenous Peoples Month: Nov.)
The Nutcracker by Nick Denchfield
When Marian Sang by Brian Selznick (Black History Month: Feb.)
Playing at the Border: a Story of Yo-Yo Ma by Joanna Ho (AAPI Month: May)
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