Check back often to find out what we've been doing in music class!
Check back often to find out what we've been doing in music class!
These activities don't always happen in the order listed and depending on what each class needs, may be expanded upon or skipped altogether because life happens-but here's what's planned for each grade! New Lessons begin on THURSDAYS for everyone except PREK so if your student hasn't experienced these yet it might be because they haven't done the new lesson yet!
Kindergarten:
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Attendance
Pass the Pumpkin with Skeleton Band (keeping steady beat with unpitched percussion-scrapers)
Big Black Cats movement activity locomotor vs nonlocomotor
Mrs. White Had a Fright rhyme with beat buddies
Paige's Train tempo introductionÂ
Walk and Stop with beat buddies
PreRhythm Writing with Ghosts and Pumpkins
Goodbye Song
First Grade:
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Attendance
Mrs. White Had a Fright rhyme with Rhythm review with steady beat challenge
Big Black Cats with Bordun and Tremolo
Pumpkin Patch song with bean bag movement activity
Pass the Pumpkin with boomwhackers (D and F)
One Misty Moisty Morning wtih scarves
High and Low reading
Goodbye Song
Second Grade:
Enter and copy me
Attendance
Hello Song
Pumpkin Patch with bean bag movement
SM singing and POISON game
Witch, Witch Fell in a Ditch game
Ah Poor Bird Review new rhythm (too-oo)
Storybots video-How do you Make Music??
Goodbye Song and Rubric
Third Grade:
Question of the Day
Attendance and Echo activity
Witch, Witch Game
Skin & Bones Review
Ghost of John introduction and folk song review
Rhythmic Poison game
Rubric and Goodbye
Fourth Grade
Question of the Day
Attendance and Echo activity
Witch, Witch Game
Rhythm Review
Ensemble review listening
Skin & Bones on resonator bells
Ghost of John intro & folk song review
Rubric and Goodbye
5th Grade:
Question of the Day
Attendance and Echo activity
Witch, Witch Game
Hey Ho Nobody Home song (prep for singing in a round)
Ensemble review listening
DRM SL Reading on the staff
Ghost of John intro & folk song review
Rubric and Goodbye
Prek
5 Voices
Hello Song
Itsy Bitsy Spider song/book with resonator bells for melodic direction experience
5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate
One Misty Moisty Morning with scarves
Match the tempo with scarves to practice the difference between fast and slow