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 * Grade 1**

The grade 1\2 music curriculum will introduce the elements of music, and be introduced to the very basics of musicianship. Many members of the instrument families will meet the grade ones throughout the year. Grade 1s 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 13-Dynamics, quiet to loud animals, using "Baboon" to generate ideas

The Plan The Idea Bank!
 * Sept 8 NAMES!!! -high low, rhythmic, fast and slow, in time,

Sept 15 breathing for singing, high low vowels, consonants in a rhythm up the scale,

Sept 22 vocal warm up to vowels, focus on dynamics, sing simple song, "Hot or Cold game which is Loud or Soft" find finger puppets.

Oct 6 moving to the pulse

Oct 14 Hot and Cold game with tempo

Oct 21 meet instrument families with one of each, give each kid a percussion sound, put kid in middle and try to get them to find the string, brass, or woodwind in the circle

Oct 28Hallowe'en themed music class, perform Monster mash to a kindergarten class? focusing on timbre of different Hallowe'en characters

Nov 1

Nov 8 musical conversations, improvised vocally, with orff xylophones, and percussion. Dynamics, and tempo create characters and emotions.

Nov 14 Practice a book accompanied by sounds.

Nov 21 -Select a book for Holiday performance.

Nov 29 -Rehearse musical book for Holiday performance

Dec 6 Rehearse for performance

Dec 13 FINAL rehearsal for performance || Sept Create Dynamics board with vocal accompaniment

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

Sept Walking in time, vocal call and response while continuing to walk in time, add body percussion and hand held percussion instruments. Use microphone for others to lead the call and response.

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

Oct So, Me, La ostinato as vocal warmup, introduce assignment: groups of 3-5 create ostinato song using spoken word, and melodic ostinato. Song will have a theme (ie breakfast, bedtime, car ride etc)

Oct rehearse song and perform groups at the end of the period

Oct Fill out the rest of the solfege, working down to Doh, and up to Doh, Matching hand signs. Sing scale in solfege, try twinkle twinkle.

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

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

Nov 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 5**

February -introduce warmup game "Baboon" & exploring attitude, voice, and emotions -Baboon, "pass the vibe" attitude, voice, and emotions NO WORDS! movement only -time and place tableau. Groups of 3 or 4, created tableaus in different settings -strange prop day. Gather handful of props, put them in circle, baboon, character creation HOMEWORK: BRING STRANGE PROP from home for next class. NON Breakable, must be able to be held with one hand, no toy guns or unsafe props, can be a. costume item. You must introduce your prop as THE CHARACTER that would own such a thing.

March -meet our prop based characters.