Units of Study
Kindergarten
-Beat
-Whisper, Talk, Shout and Sing
-Rhythm
-Holiday Music
-High and Low
-Up and down
-Meter of 2, 3 and 4
-Instrument families
-Loud and soft
-Fast or slow
-Long and short
1st Grade
-Beat
-Meter of 2,3 and 4
-Rhythm
-Ostinato
-Holiday Music
-4 Voices
-My voice is an instrument
-Lines and spaces
-Pitches and intervals
-Melodic patterns and intervals
-Notes and rests
-Pitches and rhythms
-Tempo
-Dynamics
-Instrument families
-Form
2nd Grade
-Steady Beat
-Meter
-Rhythm
-Ostinato
-My voice
-Solfege
-Baroque period
-Notes and rests
-Dynamics
-Instrument Families
-Composition
-Form
3rd Grade
-Meter
-Ostinato
-Timbre
-Musical Alphabet
-Lines and Spaces
-Melodic Movement
-Classical Period
-Sixteenth notes
-Whole notes and whole rests
-Dynamics
-Holiday Music
-Recorder
-Form
-Holiday Music
4th and 5th Grades
-Triplets
-Sixteenth notes
-Holiday Music
-Meter
-Timbre
-Duration
-Recorder
-Time Periods
*4th: Romantic
*5th: Impressionist
-Instrument Families
-Ukulele
-Steel Drums
Materials List
Websites:
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Books:
Mother Goose nursery rhymes
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Ten Little Ladybugs
There Was an Old Woman
Who Swallowed a Fly
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Five Silly Turkeys
Violet's Music
Five Little Penguins
She'll Be Coming "Round the Mountain
M is For Music
M is For Melody
Pete the Cat
Baby Shark
Little Blue Truck
Five Silly Monkeys
Moo, Baa, La La La
Pajama Time
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Snuggle Puppy
This Little Light of Mine
Love You Forever