5th graders are exploring beat and rhythm through singing, moving, and performing a step routine. They read rhythms that include quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and quarter rests. The 5th graders are creating music with their voices, and their bodies, “Celebrate”. They are working as an ensemble to maintain the beat, to maintain balance, and to perform with expression.
Theme: Friendship
The 5th grade concert is on Thursday, November 13, at 6:40 pm. The 5th graders are exploring how music is used to celebrate friendship. 5th graders will work on good vocal production, good performance practices, listening, blending, and singing with harmony. Students will sing in several languages at this concert. After the concert, the students will have one more day to reflect on their performance and celebrate their hard work.
The 5th graders will continue exploring music through composition. Students will create jingles to advertise real products. The 5th graders will be responsible for creating and transcribing the rhythm, assigning pitches, and notating their final jingle on staff paper. Their goal is to create short, catchy melodies so everyone remembers the product.
5th graders will be playing keyboard percussion instruments during their form unit. They will learn the song “Ding Dong, Digga Digga Dong,” and eventually play it as a 3-part instrumental round. Students will read rhythms that are a combination of eighth notes (ti-ti’s) and sixteenth notes (tiri-tiri’s).
The 5th graders will be creating soundtracks during the texture/timbre unit. They will work collaboratively to choose instruments that reflect the action and emotions of the book Flotsam or the book Tuesday by David Wiesner. Then they will perform their compositions for each other and record them to create a final class soundtrack.
5th graders are studying harmony through singing. They will learn Benjamin Britten’s “Old Abram Brown,” and experiment with different ways to create harmony. They can sing the song in a 2-part round or a 4-part round. They can sing the song with melodic ostinato patterns. They can sing the song using rhythmic augmentation (one group sings the song at half speed while another group sings it at regular speed). The 5th graders will collaboratively compose an arrangement of the song. They are also preparing a song to sing at continuation.