Timeframe

Content

Concept

Skills

Assessment

National Standards

Sept. - Dec

 

Unit 1 – Say Hello with a Song

Unit 2 – All About You and Me

Duration

·   Beat

 

 



·   Rhythm

Identify:

·     Steady or non-steady sounds

·     Steady beat

·     Experience 4/4, 2/4, and 6/8

·     Create 4 beat body percussion patterns

·     Experience long & short

·     Experience quarter note, eighth note & quarter rest

·Classroom observation

·Listening

·Worksheets

·Art

·Music Theory

·Discussion

·Quizzes from Text

·Participation

·   Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics phasing and interpretation

·   Move to music

·   Identify long-short sounds

·   Experience call and response

·   Move to long, high and low sounds

·   Identify sounds of various instruments

·   Identify flute and tuba

·   Identify sounds of speaking, singing, whispering and calling voices

·   Name instruments that make higher and lower sounds

 

Pitch

·   Melody

Recognize:

·     Melodic direction upward and downward

·     High and low sounds

Design

·   Texture

 

·   Form/Structure

 

Experience:

·     Unison

·     A Cappella

·     AB form

·     Several verses

·     Echo Song

·     Call-response form

·     Solo or group

·     Verse and refrain

Tone Color

Vocal/Instrumental

Exploration of:

·     Differences between singing and speaking voice

·     High/low vocal registers

·     Recognize flute & tuba

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

 



·   Tempo

Identify:

·   Loud and soft

·   Dynamic levels

·   Changing dynamics

·   Maintain loud and soft

·   Experience fast & slow sounds

Cultural

·   Styles

·   Background

Music styles

·   March, games songs

·   African American, American folk, Hispanic music, Japanese

 

Nov – Dec.

 

Cultural Christmas Program

 

·   Performance

 

 

Jan – Feb.

Unit  3 –Making Friends

Duration

·   Beat

 

 

·   Rhythm

Learn: 

·      Steady beat

·      Faster and slower

·      Meter

·      One and two sounds to beat

·      Quarter and two eighth note rhythm pattern

·      Longer shorter sounds

·      Classroom observation

·      Listening

·      Worksheets

·      Art

·      Music Theory

·      Discussion

·      Quizzes from Text

·      Participation

·   Pat with steady beat

·   Sing in a group

·   Clap to one and two sounds to the beat

·   Describe rhythm and beat

·   Read rhythmic patterns containing quarter notes, eighth notes

·   Move with a steady beat

·   Use appropriate terminology when explaining music

·   Sin song with several verses

·   Read notation

·   Identify and use musical symbols

Pitch

·   Melody

Learn to:

·      Maintain higher & lower pitches

Design

·   Texture

·   Form/structure

Learn to:

·     Accompany using class intervals

·     AB form and verse/refrain

·     ABA form

·     Contrasting sections

Tone Color

·   Vocal/instrumental

Learn:

·      Speaking and singing

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics




·   Tempo

Learn:

·      Maintain loud and soft vocal sounds

·      Dynamics in orchestral music

·      Faster and slower changing tempo in song

Cultural Context

·   Styles/Background

Music styles

·      Polish folk music, game songs, African American, Japanese, American, Caribbean, Latin American, English folk music

Feb/March