- Welcome to Music Class!
- Icebreaker Beach Ball Game
- Chicken Dance
- Drumming
- Name Game
- Teacher plays: "What did you do for summer break?"
- Student Answers: "I did _________."
- Match drumming patterns to syllables in word
- Classroom Expectations: Play on drums
- Orff Instruments
- Take xylophone bars on/off the instruments
- Practice mallet technique
- Echo play with teacher
- Bow, Wow, Wow Song
- Teach song by rote (visuals on SMART Board)
- Echo song by phrase
- Pat steady beat on body
- Play song on rhythm sticks and finger cymbals
- Transfer song/rhythm to xylophones
- Rhythm Assessment Activity
- 5 Little Pumpkins Song/Activity
- Book: "There Was an Old Monster"
- Sing book with recording
- Play maracas/dance to song
- Quarter One Benchmark Assessments
Quarter Two
- Danse Macabre Listening/Drawing Activity
- Listen to recording and draw what you picture in your head when listening to the music
- Watch slide-show of the story/song
- Compare your drawing with the slide-show
- Freeze Dance!
- Book: "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves"
- Music Literacy Packets
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
- Join Violet as she embarks on an instrument safari, guided by her uncle Ollie, collecting all the instruments of the orchestra to the accompaniment of Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra."
- Peter and the Wolf
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Strings
- Percussion
- The Nutcracker Ballet Listening Activity
- The Nutcracker March
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Chocolate- Spanish Dance
- Tea- Chinese Dance
- Coffee- Arabian Dance
- Trepak- Russian Dance
- Walt of the Flowers
- Mother Gigone- Dance of the Clowns
- Dance of the Reed Flutes
- Students draw scenes they "picture in their minds" as they listen to each dance.
- Watch the dances listed above the compare student drawn scenes to the real dance scenes.
- The Nutcracker Memory Game:
- Listen to and identify each dance from the Land of the Sweets
- Match each song to it's corresponding picture
- Put the songs in order
- Class collaboration
- Quarter Two Rhythm/Sight-Singing Assessments
Quarter Three
- Instrument Spin-off Game (Music Tech Teacher Website)
- Instrument Sort SMART Board Game
- Sounds of the Symphony Orchestra SMART Board Interactive Game
- Music Baseball
- Listen to recordings of the following families:
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Strings
- Percussion
- Learn specific facts about each instrument
- Divide the class into 2 teams
- The student up to bat listens to a recording of the instrument, identifies the instrument, and goes to first base of they are correct.
- The student then identifies what family the instrument belongs to and goes to second base.
- The student gives a specific fact about the instrument for a home run!
- Music Literacy Booklets
- Quarter Three Dictation/Melody/Rhythm Assessments
- First Grade Musical Performance Practice!!!!
Quarter Four
- First Grade Musical: Nursery Rhyme Adventures!!!
- Students are assigned to groups with specific Nursery Rhymes:
- Little Miss Muffet
- Humpty Dumpty
- Hey, Diddle, Diddle
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
- Jack and Jill
- Do You Know the Muffin Man
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Little Bo-Peep
- Students create their own accompaniment to the nursery rhymes with instruments
- Students perform nursery rhymes!
- Quarter Four Dictation Assessment
- Rhythmic and Melodic Compositions
