Week 4

Kindergarten: My Head & My Shoulders, identify body parts, identify slow, medium, fast tempos, perform drums and maracas while steady beat is changing

First Grade: March for a Zany Prince, discuss lyrics, identify soft and loud sections, march to steady beat, beat vs. no beat quiz, practice writing rhythms on board to create patterns for the class to perform on percussion

Second Grade: Shake Hands, Mary, identifying song movements with the steady beat, performing tasks on the steady beat with a partner, creating new tasks on the steady beat with a partner, using scarves to show a steady beat vs free movements

Third Grade: Stodola Pumpa, tempo: fast vs. slow, wood block performance showing tempo change, non-sense syllables, review all vocab for quiz next week

Fourth Grade: Finish Joe Turner Blues activity from last week, blues style, complete compare/contrast chart on different vocal styles, vocal LSA game if time allows

Fifth Grade: vocab quiz first, Come and Go with Me to that Land, Civil Right discussion, Gospel Style, instrumentation, tambourine performances on beats 2 & 4

Sixth Grade: Continue brainstorming/rap writing new section in We Are the World based on Hurricane Harvey and Irma

Chorus: Grades 4-6 will meet on Wednesday, September 20th, during recess times. The first rehearsal will be to get assigned voice parts and seating in rows. CDs and packets will also be given out!