4th Grade Learning Targets

Create

• Compose, arrange, improvise music

• Notate Music

Perform

• Sing and play a variety of instruments 

• Move to music for variety of purposes

• Read music notation 

Respond

• Listen to, decode, analyze, and describe music 

• Evaluate music and music performances.

Connect

• Understand the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

• Understand music in relation to history and cultures

4th Grade Music Activities

(updated 10/0)

Steady Beat Drum Clap

• decoding the steady beat from the drum rhythm

• Clap at the end of the phrase

Cup pattern

• Learn a rhythmic pater with cups

• Perform with differnt music styles and tempo

• Add complexity with passing.

We Come Together Sing

• Sing song together

• Adding body percussion

• Use the Hocket musical style to perform body percussion on unpitched and pitch percussion.

Pathway Walking

• walking with the beat.

• Subdividing the beat with claps, Listen and decode.

Good Morning song

• A part and B part