- Welcome to Music Class!
- Icebreaker Beach Ball Game
- "Good Morning" Song
- Drumming
- Name Game
- Teacher plays: "What did you do for summer break?"
- Student Answers: "I did _________."
- Match drumming patterns to syllables in words
- Classroom Expectations: Play on Drums
- Create/Perform Classroom Rules
- Students are split into groups
- Students create four new music classroom rules
- Students create a rhythm for their rules
- Students perform their rules on un-pitched percussion instruments for the class
- Students vote on one rule to be added to the original classroom rules
- Quarter One Benchmark Assessments
- Veteran's Day Songs/Performance
- Watch Video-taped performance
- Written Self Evaluations
- Ukulele Unit:
- Ukulele Intro:
- Background info on Hawaiian culture
- Info on Hawaiian Islands
- Background info on ukulele
- Listen to ukulele performers: "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole and Taimane Gardner
- Lesson 1:
- Featured performer: Ukulele Festival of Hawaii- "Wipeout"
- Getting to know the ukulele- Identify the parts of the instrument
- String numbers
- Tuning the ukulele
- Down strum
- C Major Chord
- C Major Strum
- "Are you Sleeping"- CM chord
- "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat"- CM Strum
- Ukulele Checkpoint Assessment (C chord)
- Lesson 2:
- Featured performer: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- G7 chord
- Switching between CM and G7 chords
- "Yellow Submarine"
- "Buffalo Gals"
- Reviewing the Ukulele: SMART Board
- Quarter Two Rhythm/ Melody Assessments
- Ukulele Lesson 3:
- Featured performer: Ryan Esaki
- Switching between CM and G7 chords
- "Yellow Submarine"
- "Buffalo Gals"
- Ukulele Checkpoint Assessment
- Strumming the F chord
- Strumming C, G7, F chords
- "Camptown Races"- C, G7, F chords
- Reviewing the Ukulele: SMART Board Game
- Ukulele Unit Review
- Ukulele Assessment/Quiz
- Literacy Booklets
- Whammo Game
- RECORDERS!!!
- Review notes B, A, G
- Echo 4/4 beat patterns around the room
- Star Recorder Karate Book
- Quarter Three Rhythm/Melody/Dictation Assessments
Quarter Four
- Recorder Karate!!!
- White Belt: Hot Cross Buns (G, A, B)
- Yellow Belt: Gently Sleep (G, A, B)
- Orange Belt: Merrily We Roll Along (G, A, B)
- Green Belt: It's Raining (E, G, A)
- Purple Belt: Old MacDonald Had a Farm (D, E, G, A, B)
- Blue Belt: When The Saints Go Marching In (D, E, F#, G, A, B)
- Recorder Compositions
- Choose one of the Recorder Karate Songs to Remix with a partner
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra "Dream Out Loud" Series
- Orchestra Explorers Appalachian Spring Curriculum
- Introducing Students to Orchestral Music and Collaboration
- Meet Aaron Copland and Martha Graham
- Adventures on the Frontier
- Simple Gifts
- Suspense!
- Celebrating Our Gifts
- Quarter Four Dictation/Absolute Pitch Assessments
