Melodic Skills:

• Five Voices (Singing, Speaking, Inside, Shouting, and Whisper)

  • ABC Song

  • 5 Voices Chant

  • Bee Bee Bumblebee

Rhythmic Skills:

• Iconic Beat Tracking (Pointing to icons to indicate steady beat while reading)

  • Bee Bee Bumblebee

Movement Skills: 

• Non-Locomotor Movement (Moving in Ones Place and Not Through Space)

  • Animal Action

  • Shake My Sillies Out

  • It's So Good to See You

  • Chicken Dance

Instrument Skills:

• Non-Pitched Percussion Instruments (Playing on the Beat)

  • Listen to the Ducks (Rhythm Sticks)

  • Listen to the Hens (Hand Drum)

Melodic Skills:

• High, Middle, Low (Performing, Labeling, Aurally Identifying)

  • Goldielocks and the Three Bears

  • Teddy Bear

Rhythmic Skills:

• Iconic Beat Decoding and Reading (Finding if a word has a long or two short sounds and then reading it with the label LONG or SHORT SHORT)

  • Pumpkin Stew

  • Chop Chop Chippity Chop

  • Frosty Weather

Movement Skills:

• Locomotor Movement (Moving Through Space Away from Your Place)

  • When the Cows Come Home

  • Seven Jumps

  • Cherkessiya

Instrument Skills:

• Non-Pitched Percussion Instruments (Playing on the Beat)

  • Listen to the Cows (Cowbell)

  • Listen to the Pigs (Woodblock)

  • Listen to the Lambs (Maracas)

  • Listen to the Reindeer (Wrist Bells)

Melodic Skills:

• Loud and Quiet (Performing, Labeling, Aurally Identifying)

  • Grizzly Bear

  • Hush Little Baby

Rhythmic Skills:

• Iconic Beat Decoding and Reading (Finding if a word has a long or two short sounds and then reading it with the label LONG or SHORT SHORT)

  • Queen Queen Caroline

  • Bounce High, Bounce Low

Movement Skills:

• Folk Dancing (Circle Formation, Circle R, Circle L, In and Out)

  • Lott ist Todt

  • Royal Fireworks

  • Irish Stew

Instrument Skills:

• Ensemble Work (Playing the correct rhythm at the correct time with a group of musicians)

  • Chicken Little 

  • Big Drum vs. Little Drum

  • Mice in the Attic

  • Cobbler Cobbler

Melodic Skills:

• High, Middle, Low (Performing, Labeling, Aurally Identifying)

  • The Never Ending Staircase

  • Snail, Snail

  • Rain, Rain Go Away

Rhythmic Skills:

• Iconic Beat Decoding and Reading (Finding if a word has a long or two short sounds and then reading it with the label LONG or SHORT SHORT)

  • Bee Bee Bumblebee

  • Engine Engine Number Nine

Movement Skills:

• Folk Dancing (Circle Formation, Circle R, Circle L, In and Out)

  • Les Saluts

  • Highland Gates

  • Tanko Bushi

Instrument Skills

• Introduction to Pitched Instruments (Xylophone, Metallophone, and Glockenspiel)

  • Orff Conducting

  • Listen to the Rain

  • John the Rabbit

We LOVE to read in music class! 

Below is the list of the books we have read or will read this year:

• 5 Silly Turkeys by Salina Yoon

• A Little Bit Brave by Nicola Kinnear

• Be Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park

• Buzzy by Denise Brennan-Wilson

• Carnival of the Animals: Storybook Orchestra by Jessica Courtney-Tickle

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.

• Chicken Little by Phildal Publishing

• Dragon Dancing by Carole Lexa Schaefer

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Parragon Books

• Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin

• Hickory Dickory Dog by Alison Murray

• If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff

• Listen to the Rain Bill Martin Jr.

• Little Blue Truck's Halloween by Alice Schertle

• Los Pollitos by Susie Jaramillo

• Mary Had a Little Lamb by Iza Trapini

• Nutcracker: Storybook Orchestra by Jessica Courtney-Tickle

• Old MacDonald Had a Farm

• Silly Lullaby by Sandra Boynton

• Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

• Story of the Leprechaun by Katherine Tegen

• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

• Truck Full of Ducks by Ross Burach

• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury

• What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele

• Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky

• When the Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison