Fifth Grade 2025/2026

SEPTEMBER

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Follow the Rainbow, echoing on neutral syllables, using our bodies to show expressive elements and to internalize the concepts of high, low, and same

Explore Our Voices ~ Slide Whistle

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D.

SIMPLE SONG

Cut the Cake

Clap your hands together.

Give yourself a shake.

Make a happy circle.

Then you cut the cake

ECHO/RESPONSE

Introduce Yourself!

We'll be jumping in and out of hoops on the floor for this one.

Introduce yourself, Introduce yourself!

Solo: My name is Molly, Response: Uh huh

Solo: And I like hockey Response: Oh, yeah

We're here to meet you, to greet you,

jump up, jump back, stand still.

Introduce yourself, Introduce yourself!

Solo: My name is _____, Response: Uh huh

Solo: And I like _____ Response: Oh, yeah

We're here to meet you, to greet you,

jump up, jump back, stand still.

BEATFUL - BEAT

Ickle Ockle Blue Bottle

Fishes in the sea

If you want a partner

Please pick me!

We'll decode this rhythmically in 4/4 time and tonally on Do, Mi, Sol, La

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

Alligator Pie in 4/4 and 2/4 meter

Alligator pie alligator pie

If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die

Take away the green grass, take away the sky but

Don't take away my alligator pie!

MOVEMENT EXPLORATION -

I think I Hear the Ending Coming

and now it's time to STOP! and now it's time to POSE!

MOVEMENT EXPLORATION

A Sailor Went to Sea... on stretchie bands!

A sailor went to sea, chop, knee, tap, ooh-wachie-waw

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

This is a great song to learn about chords and how to build them. We'll play along on resonnator bells.

Ging Gang Goolie.docx

OCTOBER

SIMPLE SONG

Cut the Cake

Now that we know the song and the game, we'll learn this on PP instruments

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff

BEATFUL - BEAT

Pass the Pumpkin Rhythms - sixteenth note and syncopated combinations

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

"Waltz No 2" part of Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra - Movement routine with scarves and balls to explore form

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

Danse Macabre

The music is based on a poem written by Henri Cazalis, which tells of the gruesome goings-on in the churchyard of a French village on Halloween.

Danse Macabre is an example of programme music. Programme music tells a story or represents something such as a painting or poem. Sometimes music that was intended for one purpose can later be used for another. For example, Danse Macabre has been used for the theme music for the television programme, Jonathan Creek. The composer, Camille SaintSaens was French and he lived from 1865-1921. He also wrote `Carnival of the Animals' which is 14 short pieces each written to represent a certain animal.

Danse Macabre

Zig-a-zig-a-zig it's the Rhythm of Death!

Death at midnight playing a dance tune,

Zig-a-zig-a-zig on his violin.

The winter wind whistles and the night is dark.

The winter wind whistles and the lime trees moan.

Weird white skeletons streak across the shadows

Running and leaping wrapped in their shrouds.

Zig-a-zig-a-zig the dance grows even wilder

You can hear the eerie clatter of the dancers' bones

But wait! Suddenly they all stop dancing.

They scatter, they vanish for the cock has crowed.

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

Drunken Sailor

NOVEMBER

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff

Begin working on music for Celebration of Winter Holidays

The 5th grade gets to learn the story of King Wenceslaus who took in and fed the poor on the Feast of Saint Stephen. We'll learn the song and accompany ourselves on pitched percussion instruments.

In the slide show to the right you can check out all of the songs we'll learn that we perform all together in the gym.

2025 Winter Holiday Celebration With Links

BEATFUL - BEAT

Sugar Fairy 1

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

DECEMBER

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff

Continue working on music for Celebration of Winter Holidays

The Wassail Song

2025 Winter Holiday Celebration With Links

BEATFUL - BEAT

Sugar Fairy 1

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

VERSE 1 - Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,

God of glory, Lord of love;

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,

Opening to the sun above.

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;

Drive the dark of doubt away;

Giver of immortal gladness,

Fill us with the light of day!

VERSE 2 - All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flowery meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain,
Call us to rejoice in Thee.

VERSE 3 - Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blessed,
Wellspring of the joy of living,
Ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine.

VERSE 4 - Mortals, join the happy chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o'er us,
brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward
In the triumph song of life.

JANUARY

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Practice decoding melodic patterns

SIMPLE SONG - Botton You Must Wander -

We'll decode rhythm & pitch in 2/4 time

We'll accompany on PP instrument

Button you must wander, wander, wander.

Button you must wander every where.

Bright eyes will find you. Sharp eyes will find you.

Button you must wander every where.

Treble Clef Review

BEAT - MELODY - HARMONY/CHORDS

Refamiliarizing ourselves to the notes on the treble clef while practicing rhythmic decoding as a bonus.

Echo/Response

We'll echo patterns on PP as well as on recorders

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

Can we manage the ins and outs of this activity using hoops on the floor?

SONGTALE

DANCE

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

Perform these as partner songs! (But in the same key!!)

Song #1 - Land of the Silver Birch

Song #2 - My Paddle

Dip, dip, and swing her back, flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose track. Dip, dip, and swing.

FEBRUARY

TUNEFUL - PITCH

Practice decoding melodic patterns

Review pitches/fingerings and pick up wherever you left off last year...

Recorder Resources 2025 - Belt Songs

ECHO/RESPONSE

Echo back tonal phrases on recorders and/or PP

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

Jikeleza (or The Throw and Catch Song)

Throw, catch, - Throw, catch, - Throw, catch,

Jikeleza

Throw, catch, - Throw, catch, - Throw, catch,

Jikeleza

Na na na na na na na- Na na na na na na na-

Na na na na na na na- Jikeleza

Na na na na na na na- Na na na na na na na-

Na na na na na na na- Jikeleza

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

MARCH

TUNEFUL - PITCh

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff

Continue to work on recorder skills

Recorder Resources 2025 - Belt Songs

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

From the opera "Carmen", this is Claude Bizet's Habanera

Remember to look for patterns!

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson passed away on February 3rd, 1959 after a small plane crash, rock and roll lost some of its most notable early pioneers. Singer-songwriter Don McLean called this moment in music history "The Day the Music Died," in his song "American Pie."

APRIL

TUNEFUL - PITCh

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff

SIMPLE SONG

BEATFUL - BEAT

6/8 time

"Fish in the Sky" - a non-sensical poem

Oh, my! Fish in the sky!

Shoes on the ceiling & trees walking by!

Reaching up low, bending down high,

Ev'rything seems to be wrong, right?

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

We'll play the game then decode the rhythms

My bonnie lies over the ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea
My bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my bonnie to me

Bring back, bring back
Oh bring back my bonnie to me to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh bring back my bonnie to me

SONGTALE

DANCE

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

MAY

TUNEFUL - PITCh

Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff

SIMPLE SONG

ECHO/RESPONSE

BEAT

"I Have, Who Has" in 6/8 meter

MOVEMENT EXPLORATION

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

Take 5 Passing Game

SONGTALES

Ballads power point.pptx

DANCE

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

2. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on. Refrain

3. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on. Refrain

JUNE

There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a Frog on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a Frog on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a wart on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a wart on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a fly on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a fly on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a flea on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a flea on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog ,on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

SIMPLE SONG

ECHO/RESPONSE

BEATFUL - BEAT

MOVEMENT EXPLORATION

MOVEMENT FOR FORM & EXPRESSION

SONGTALE

DANCE

SONG STASH -

Songs to keep in your backpack forever

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