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 * Grade 2**

The grade 2 music curriculum will expand on the elements of music introduced in grade 1. Musicianship will continue to be cultivated through practice, musical games and performance. Grade 2s will have 50 minutes of music per cycle. Each class will be action packed, touching on three to four areas of study and building on them week after week.

Sept End of Summer **C1**

Sept 12 Create Dynamics graphic on board, with animals, terms, involving singing movement, and drawing. **C1,C2**

Sept 20-Continue with Dynamics, adding musical terms, Get them to draw and animal, put the correct dynamic on it, and stick it on the chart. (Crescendo) Then flip it. Then Perform it. **C1,C2**

Sept 27 "The Other Day I went to the Zoo" Read through it, figure out how to create the animal noises, assign the parts, focus on the LOUDS and SOFTS, Write a simple melody to hold it together. **C1,C2**

Oct 5 Pulse, rhythm, "Can you Feel the Rhythm in Your..."

Oct 12 Vocal warmup with posture, breathing, consonants, followed with " Apples and Bananas"

Oct 27 "Harry Potter Puppets" as our inspiration, create a rhythmic ostinato song based on getting ready for recess

Nov 1 Vocal warm-ups, reinforcing solfege from last week, Class will compose individually and as a group simple composition using solfege signs. Class will perform them AND so will I.

Nov 8 Introduce symbols to represent rhythms from whole notes to 16ths. Have students choose one, write it down, and repeat last weeks activity adding rhythns.

Nov 15 Accompanying a picture book with music activity, leading to next weeks exercise

Nov 22 Select Holiday Book to bring to life for Holiday concert third week of December

Nov 30 through December, rehearse book for Holiday Performance

JANUARY

Jan 7 intro xylophones and five note scale. play shapes

Jan 14 " Mary had a little Lamb," put together with shapes

Jan 21 Rehearse simple 5 note songs

Jan 28 Perform simple 5 note songs.

DRAMA BEGINS FEB 4