Music studies at Sudie Williams TAG Academy will be an entertaining and enlightening adventure.  Fourth-graders will explore music through staff notes, vocabulary and composition, singing, and exposure to diverse music styles with an emphasis on American and Texas heritage.  This grade also will learn to play the recorder and will be a featured ensemble in concerts.  Each student will have an account to Quaver Music, an exciting and fun online music education system which they can explore independently as well as with their class.

Fifth-graders taking Music will study the following units: American Popular Music, Composition, Classical Music, World Music, Folk & Country, and Blues & Jazz.  The Composition unit features music literacy (staff notes, rhythms, melodies, symbols, terms) with the final objective a 16-measure original composition by each student.   Classical Music highlights all styles of the genre: Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern including American composers. In addition, students will learn various songwriting styles including rap, folk and blues lyrics.

The course is designed to incorporate art, history, social studies, geography and language into music.  I enjoy teaching this music course, which I designed, and strive to cultivate lifelong music lovers who grow to appreciate all styles past, present and future.

Extra activities for 5th grade includes a field trip to hear the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.  Students in both 4th & 5th grades will have the opportunity to see an opera via METLive at Booker T. Washington High School in the spring of 2022.

UIL Music Memory Contest

*SEE SEPARATE MUSIC MEMORY PAGE

Both 4th- and 5th-graders will learn the 16 classical music pieces in the UIL Music Memory contest.  Please check the Music Memory page on this website to view the entire list of classical and jazz pieces.  By spring semester 2023, students who earn top scores in their class on a preliminary Music Memory listening test will be invited to be on the Sudie Music Memory Team and practice together in weekly after-school sessions in the Music Room.  The Dallas ISD Music Memory contest had been held in the Meyerson Symphony Center with pieces performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Winning teams return with a huge trophy and Olympic medals.

Elementary Choir

Sudie Elementary Choir will be made up of all Music students.  They will perform in school Choir concerts.  Students will learn songs during weekly Music class.  Songs will be posted on this website's Resources page so that students practice on their own, too.  

Grading Policy

50% Participation

20% Projects/Concerts

20% Tests

10% 9-Weeks Quiz

Behavior Incentives: Stamps, Virtual stamps, Games, Rewards, Fun Songs, Field Trips

Behavior Consequences: Warning, Reseated, Reset, Parent conference, Principal referral

Supplies

Students need to bring a supply pouch to Music class containing: pens, pencils, erasers, ruler, scissors, colors (crayons, pencils), glue stick.

Cell Phones/Laptops

Student cell phones should be TURNED OFF and STORED OUT OF SIGHT during Music class or will be confiscated. Ear buds are not permitted during the school day, too.

Laptops are not needed in Music class unless requested by Ms. Bell.

Music Fifth Grade Lessons

August 2022

Objectives: Composition and performance on assorted instruments; vocabulary; choral techniques; singing warm ups.

September 2022

Objectives: Rehearse Nottamun Town; Sing/Play Latin American songs; Dance Tango

October 2022

Objectives: Sing songs in Spanish/English; Play in instrumental ensembles; Rehearse songs for winter program; Play Halloween & fall/patriotic songs; Music Memory game

November 2022

Objectives: Rehearse songs for holiday program; Play in instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music Memory quiz; Build music literacy skills

December 2022

Objectives: Rehearse songs for holiday program; Play instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music Memory quiz; Build music literacy skills

January 2023

Objectives: Perform in winter concert; Critique performance; Play instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music Memory final test; Build music literacy skills

February 2023

Objectives: Play instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music Memory Teams assigned, members awarded (100 on final test); Build music literacy skills

March 2023

Objectives: Play instrumental ensembles world music; Music Memory game; Build music literacy skills

April 2023

Objectives: Music Memory Team attends DISD contest; Continue performing in ensembles; Video record classroom performance for virtual concert

Music Fourth Grade Lessons

August 2022

Objectives: Create a soundscape to a back-to-school poem using assorted classroom instruments; choral techniques; singing warm ups; music vocabulary; staff composition.

September 2022

Objectives: Sing Spanish songs; Read/Sing solfege pitches; Play in instrumental ensembles

October 2022

Objectives: Sing songs in Spanish/English; Perform songs in instrumental ensembles; Compose; Music Memory game; Recorder tunes; Quaver games

November 2022

Objectives: Rehearse songs for winter concert; Perform in instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music Memory quiz; Recorder BAG tunes; Music literacy

December 2022

Objectives: Rehearse recorder song for winter concert; Perform instrumental ensembles; Music Memory game; Music literacy

January 2023

Objectives: Perform recorder in winter concert; Critique performance; Perform instrumental ensembles; Play scale and other notes on recorder; Perform world music; Music Memory game; Music literacy; Music Memory final test

February 2023

Objectives: Music Memory Teams chosen (based on 100 on Music Memory final test); Music Memory game; Recorder rehearsal; Perform world music with recorders; Music literacy

March 2023

Objectives: Recorder virtual concert piece chosen; Music Memory game; 2-part recorder harmony; Music literacy; World music ensemble rehearsal

April 2023

Objectives: Music Memory Team competes in DISD contest; Continue skills on recorder; Rehearse world music recorder ensemble piece; Video record classroom performance for virtual concert