Fifth Grade
We learn music through:
Singing Chanting Moving Dancing Playing Instruments Listening Creating
Improvising Reading Writing Audiating Describing Evaluating
Curricular Goals for Fifth Grade
Singing
Continue to develop Head Voice
Tonic and Dominant Patterns using solfege in major and minor tonalities
Rhythmic Chanting
Rhythmic patterns with syllables
Put syllables to rhythm patterns ("translate")
Improvising and Creating
Improvise with rhythm syllables
Rhythm conversations
Improvise melodies on xylophones using Tonic and Dominant patterns in Major and Minor tonalities
Composing 4-beat patterns
Form
Same/Different musical ideas
Ostinato
AB, ABA, etc Form
Moving
Flow
Folk and circle dances
Partner dances
Body Percussion (Performing and creating)
Playing Instruments
Playing xylophones and other simple percussion
Rhythmic and melodic ostinati
Sing and accompany self with Ukuleles
Perform tunes on Recorder
Listening/Analyzing/Describing
Label Macrobeats/microbeats, Divisions/Elongations
Label duple, triple meter, and unusual meters
Label Major and minor tonalities (Tonic and Dominant Functions)
Identify and label instrument families in the Orchestra (Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Strings)
Reading and Writing
Practice writing notation symbols (quarter note/rest, paired eighths, beamed sixteenths, and half notes)