Happy First Week of School

All classes will receive their seating assignments and review the rules in the music room. Students will also receive an overview of lessons to be covered for the school year. Mrs. Kline will go over band and chorus details with eligible 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Finally, each grade level will also begin the first lesson of the year as follows:

Kindergarten: Put Your Finger in the Air, Pg 14-15, CD 1-8.
Goals: body parts, personal space, moving to the steady beat, begin rhythm recognition, quarter notes and eighth notes, singing.

1st Grade: Ev’rybody Says, Pg 4-5, CD 1-1/3.

Goals: beat/no beat. S. will sing and keep the beat on their laps. S. will also create new ways to keep the beat. Complete vocal LSAs (if time).

2nd Grade: Zudio, Pg 4-5, CD 1-1

Goals: S will keep the beat, discuss the style of music, and perform the motions of the song. S. will identify the instruments using listening skills. Complete vocal LSAs.

3rd Grade: We’ve Got Lots in Common, Pg 4-5, CD 1-1

Goals: S. will keep a steady beat, sing, discuss Charlotte’s Web; vocabulary words: chorus and verse, complete vocal LSAs.

4th Grade: Band and Chorus hand-outs with Mrs. Kline. Instrument demonstration.

5th Grade: Band and Chorus hand-outs with Mrs. Kline. Adelita, Pg 6-7, CD 1-4/6

Goals: S will keep a steady beat, sing, discuss meaning of song, meter in 2; vocabulary: melody/harmony

6th Grade: We Are the World, Pg 4-5, CD 1-1/3

Goals: S. will sing, discuss meaning, composers, and recording singers