COMING ATTRACTIONS IN MUSIC—3RD NINE WEEKS Welcome to our second semester! The traditions of singing, moving, playing interactive music games, learning songs of many cultures, performing on classroom instruments, and learning music notation will continue. Since music includes basic skills that are repeated and enhanced every year, the concepts are the same, but reinforced with increasing difficulty. Kindergarten will be: Learning about the families of the orchestra and orchestral instruments (focus on woodwinds) Identify orchestral instruments visually (woodwinds) Continuing practice with steady beat by using: unpitched percussion instruments; locomotor movement; body percussion; bilateral movements Move to long and short sounds Listening to a song for directions Continuing identifying comparatives (fast/slow; loud/soft; high/low; same/different) Reviewing previously learned concepts First grade will be: Learning about families of the orchestr and orchestral instruments (focus on woodwinds and brass) Identify orchestral instruments aurally and visually (focus on woodwinds and brass) Describing sounds of instruments as higher or lower Performing movements to show the difference between long and short sounds Matching vocal contours to visuals Playing a singing game Reading and performing rhythms using quarter and eighth notes and quarter rest Learning a folk dance Reviewing previously learned concepts Second grade will be: Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families Identify orchestral instruments visually and aurally (focus on woodwinds and brass) Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into families Clapping rhythmic patterns with a listening selection Learning a folk dance Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, half, whole notes and quarter rest Expanding their study of melody on the staff (absolute pitch names) Reviewing previously learned concepts Third grade will be: Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families Identify orchestral instruments visually and aurally (focus on woodwinds, brass, string Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into families Learning a folk dance Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, sixteenth, half, dotted half and whole notes, and quarter, half and whole rest Expanding their study of absolute pitch names Continuing singing in pentatonic scale Compare and describe rhythm durations Learning about relationship between math and note values Fourth Grade will be: Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families Identify instruments visually and aurally (brass, woodwind, string, percussion) Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into families Preparing for their field trip to the symphony Learning about different forms in music Learning a folk dance Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, sixteenth, eighth and sixteenth combinations, half, dotted half and whole notes, and quarter, half and whole rest Continuing learning about relationship between math and note values Reading pentatonic phrases with absolute pitch names Continuing singing in a major scale Writing music on the staff Playing instruments: pitched and unpitched Review previously learned concepts Fifth grade will be: Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families Identify instruments visually and aurally (brass, woodwind, string, percussion) Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into families Learning a folk dance Reading, writing, creating and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, sixteenth, eighth and sixteenth combinations, half, dotted half and whole notes, and quarter, half and whole rest Continuing their study of absolute pitch names Reading and singing pentatonic and diatonic phrases with absolute pitch names Writing music on the staff Playing instruments: pitched and unpitched Learning drum techniques Learning new music terminology Review previously learned concepts