Music, Music, Music!
Welcome Back to
Alexander Everyone!
I'm excited about seeing you ALL again this year! You are all special to me and I love teaching you all MUSIC. We will make beautiful music together this year, just a little differently than the way we have done it in the past. I look forward to seeing you all soon! Enjoy your summer!
2023-2024 is going to be a GREAT YEAR Soaring Eagles!!
Mr. Parrish's Class Schedule
Alexander Elementary
Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
7:00-7:45 Cafe Duty Classroom Chorus Gym Duty
Planning Planning Planning Planning
8:00-8:45 am Ford PLC 3rd Grade Gaumond Choice
5th Grade
8:55-9:40 am Konopacke Williams Whitaker Pettigrew
4th Grade
9:50-10:35 am Chastain Laye R. Freeman Thrower
2nd Grade
10:45-11:30 am LUNCH/PLANNING
11:30-12:15 pm Mlay W. Carter Frascino Campbell
K4/K5
12:20-1:05 pm M. Carter Woodall Amador J. Freeman
1st Grade
1:20-2:05 pm Norris Beck Trammell Siekman
4th Grade
2:00-2:45 Planning/Afterschool Duty-Upstairs by Elevator
Monaview Elementary
7:15-8:00 am
8:00-8:45 am
8:55-9:40 am
9:50-10:35 am
10:45-11:30 am
11:40-12:25 pm
12:25-1:10 pm
1:15-2:00 pm
2:00-2:45 pm
What We Are Doing In Music...Unit 1
5K Classes
Unit 1 will be on discovering our voices and how they function. We will explore our voices through:
Songs
Games
Vocal Exercises
Rhythm
We will also learn about:
Melody
Pitch
1st Grade Classes
Unit 1 will be reviewing many of the techniques that we learned in Kindergarten. We will discover new ways to use our voices through:
Music notes are placed on lines and in spaces.
Singing long and short notes
We will also learn:
Music notes are placed on lines and in spaces
Melodies move up and down
2nd Grade Classes
Unit 1 will explore using our voices to sing more complicated songs. We will learn to read more notes and rhythms. We will accomplish this by:
Singing melodies that move up and down
Demonstrate how melodies move up and down by moving and singing to music
We will learn these concepts by:
Learning about posture
Reading rhythm patterns
Reading melodic patterns
3rd Grade Classes
To start our year, unit 1 explores more singing techniques. We will learn:
About singing in unison
How to sing rounds and canons
Concepts we will learn include:
Dotted notes
Ostinati
Identifying intervals
4th Grade Classes
Unit 1 this year will teach us to:
Identify line and space notes
Apply syncopation
Sing in harmony
We will learn this content through:
Identifying triplets
Discovering 6/8 time signatures
5th Grade Classes
Our first unit this year emphasizes singing in harmony. We will learn to:
Read melodies
Sing partner songs
We will use these skills to learn:
Singing in parts
How to notate music