1st Grade
Songs, Activities, and Musical Concepts the students worked on this year are:
1. Rhythm: quarter note, eighth note, quarter rest 2.Melody: Mi, Sol and La and high and la 3. Form: Verse and refrain, Call and Response, Follow a Listening Maps 4.Timbre: Basic instruments, voice Timbre, length & size affects pitch 5. Harmony: perform ostinato patterns with a melody
6. Expression: Loud and soft, (piano and forte) tempo, (fast and slow) texture
Assessments:
1. Melody: Identify high and low sounds,
2. Tempo: Fast and Slow
3.Form: Same and different
4.Timbre: Identify Instrument from, "Peter and the Wolf"
- Fall Concert on November 2, 2017 it was called, "Spooktacular Concert"
- The students worked on, "Peter and the Wolf" and they are learning to identify by site and sound instruments of the orchestra. They are learning the flute, clarinet, french horn, oboe, timpani, violin, and the bassoon.
1. Rhythm: quarter note, eighth note, quarter rest 2.Melody: Mi, Sol and La and high and la 3. Form: Verse and refrain, Call and Response, Follow a Listening Maps 4.Timbre: Basic instruments, voice Timbre, length & size affects pitch 5. Harmony: perform ostinato patterns with a melody
6. Expression: Loud and soft, (piano and forte) tempo, (fast and slow) texture
Assessments:
1. Melody: Identify high and low sounds,
2. Tempo: Fast and Slow
3.Form: Same and different
4.Timbre: Identify Instrument from, "Peter and the Wolf"
- A few songs include: Leaf Song, Holiday Songs, Star Light, Snow Flakes, Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Charlie Over the Ocean, Bounce High, Bounce Low, Cobbler Cobbler, Come and Pass Sticks Around, Engine, Engine, Button You Must Wander, Song Stories
- Resources: Game Plan, Silver Burdett, "Making Music" , White Board Music Module 1, The Singing Classroom, Music K-8, Music Express
- Instruments used: Drums, Triangle, Bells, Boomwhackers, Tambourines, Finger Cymbals, Keyboards, Maracas, Tone Block, Xylophone, Sound Drums
- Helpful Music Sites: