Hello families,
I hope this works! I had redone my plans for
March and just noticed that they never went through!
So sorry! We had such a wonderful month celebrating
St. Patrick's Day, Holi Day (a fantastic celebration of
Spring in India), new and inventive instrument games,
we learned the history of theatre, and so, so much more.
OK, so what's happening in April?
K-4
The children will be so excited to celebrate singing and dancing
to the new "High School Musical 3" tune.
Objectives...
1. Sing a song about graduating from High School
2. Perform rhythms on instruments and body percussion
K-4
Using instruments is one of my students favorite activities!
"Happiness" (from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Objectives...
1. Sing a song alone and with others
2. Understand relationships between music, the other arts, and
disciplines outside the arts
3. Read quarter-note triplet, eighth rest
4. Perform on instrumetns
5. Understand music in relation to history and culture
3/4
Kristin Chenoweth: An interview
Objectives...
1. Listen to and describe music
2. Understand relationships between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the arts
3. Understand music in relation to history and culture
K-4
"Evergreen, Everblue"
Objectives...
1. Sing a song in two parts and/or with solos while following
the repeats, first and second endings
2. Create new lyrics for a song
3. Choose or create instruments to accompany the song
4. Learn a song about taking care of the earth and rainforest
K-4
"My Song"
Objectives..
1. Sing a song with a group
2. Perform on percussion instruments, alone and with
others, with the song
3. Read and notate music
4. Listen to, analyze and describe music
K-4
"The Typewriter"
Objectives...
1. Listen, analyze and respond to "novelty sounds"
and muscical notation
2. Read and perform musical notation
3. Understand realtionships between music and American
culture
K-4
"Kodomo no Hi" or "Children's Day in Japan"
Objectives...
1. Learn about the music and culture of Japan
2. Sing the Japanese folk song "Koinobori"
3. Accompany "Koinobori" with Orff instruments,
bells or other instruments
4. Perform rhythm patterns in 3/4 meter
K-3
"Sum-sum-summertime"
Objectives...
1. Dance to moves from the past and create new ones
(the pony, the swim, the monkey, the locomotion,
the surf, the paddy cake handshake)
K-2
"We Can-Can Be Healthy Kids"
Objectives...
1. Perform gross motor movements on the eat
2. Memorize choreography
3. Recognize quarter notes and eighth notes
4. Patterns such as Ta, ti-ti to learn the above
5. Discuss the importance of exercise and good health
K
"The Giant and the Flea"
Objectives..
1. Discuss how two unlikely specimens can come
together and make music,each singing their own
little tune.
2. Learn syncopation in a song
K-2
"Missy-La, Massa-La"
Objectives...
1. Sing, move to a song
2. Review syncopation
3. Play a game to a song
4. Discuss Carribean culture in music
K-4
"Zydeco"
Objectives...
1. Learn the culture of zydeco music from Lousiana.
2. Express yourselve with body percussion and percussion instruments.
3. Play the tambourine, the bono drum, the bass drum, the soprano
xylophone, alto xylophone, bass xylophone
5/6/7
"Learning to Play the guitar"
*Last month, the students progressed immensely!
They now know how to play and read a D and A chord.
They just learned a basic 4/4 meter strum...DD UU DU
Also, the students know the natural musical alphabet and
can name the notes on each fret and string of the guitar.
Objectives...
1. To learn new chords to play a song.."Let It Be"
8
Rehearsing for our 8th grade play performance,
"Rafunzel"
Objectives...
1. To completer our playbill
2. To learn all lines
3. To plan the cast party
4. To complete the task of prop and costume design
5. To build our set
6. To get the best out of each student to ensure confidence
on stage
Choral
We have learned all our songs for the 8th grade play.
We are working on perfecting the choreography and expression.
It's been so much fun!!!!
God's Voice
Just worked on the next 1st Friday Mass Song,
"Open My Eyes"
Well, there you go!!!!
Happy Spring! God's evidence surrounds and atounds us!
Ms. D
