This+Week's+Lessons

K: //Bow, Wow, Wow -// dance review; //D. Kolo// Dance review; //Two Little Sausages// movement review; //Limbo Rock//. 1: //Bow, Wow, Wow -// dance review; //Limbo Rock// Dance; //Dance with Your Hands; Hey There, Neighbor//. 2: Upcoming PTO songs: //Listen to the Water; Clean Up Our World; Shut It Off; Big Beautiful Planet//. 3: //Look Out for Mother Earth// rap; //River; Water Cycle; It's a Beautiful Day//. 4: NC Symphony preparation: //John Henry//; Tchaikovsky's //Swan Lake Prelude//; Bizet's //Carillon// from //L'Arlisienne//. 5: //Little Shoemaker// Dance review (time permitting), //Zemir Atik// Dance; //Ode to Joy// (prep for jazz program); Brahms' //Hungarian Dance #5//; Rosas' //Over the Water//.
 * __March 1 - 5, 2010:__**

K: //Bow, Wow, Wow -// dance; //D. Kolo// Dance; //Two Little Sausages// movement. 1: //Bow, Wow, Wow -// dance; //D. Kolo// Dance; //Two Little Sausages// movement; //Limbo Rock// Dance. 2: //Hey There, Neighbor// - dance; //Fjaskern// Dance, //Limbo Rock// Dance. 3: //Look Out for Mother Earth// rap; //Ode to Joy// words & music (for upcoming jazz program on 4/16); //Fjaskern, Little Shoemaker// Dances. 4 &5: //Little Shoemaker// Dance, //Zemir Atik// Dance; dance video excerpt; //Ode to Joy// (prep for jazz program).
 * __Feb 22-26, 2010:__**

K: //I Made a Valentine, When You Send a Valentine//,Valentine cards, //Grizzly Bear, Time to Wake Up//, Orff instruments. (scale / pentatonic echoes). 1: //I Made a Valentine, When You Send a Valentine//, Valentine cards, //Grizzly Bear//, Review & sing //Little Wheel A-Turning in My Heart// w/Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 2: Sing //Valentine Heart//, //Valentines// p.382?, Valentine cards, review //I Got Shoes// (Gospel style, //spiritual//) w / Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 3: Sing //Love Somebody, p.// 91, Valentine cards, Review & sing //Groundhog Blues// - play w/Orff instruments. 4: PTO program music: //Grand Old Flag, Earth is Our Mother, This Land// (recorders), //The Eagle// (recorders & Orff), //Old North State//. Valentine cards, 5: PTO program music: //America the Beautiful, One Nation, Yankee Doodle// (recorders), //Flying Eagle// (recorders & Orff), //Hosisipa//. Valentine cards,
 * __Feb 8-12, 2010:__**

K: February rhythm chart. Review the four families of the orchestra. Instrument chant. Orchestra listening examples. //Brush Your Teeth// song - play with maracas & Orff instruments. (scale / pentatonic echoes). 1: February rhythm chart, Review the four families of the orchestra. Instrument chant. Orchestra listening examples. Sing //Little Wheel A-Turning in My Heart// w/Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 2: February rhythm chart. Review the four families of the orchestra. Instrument chant. Orchestra Listening examples. Sing //I Got Shoes// (Gospel style, //spiritual//) w / Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 3: //Jazz / improvisation//. Review Hungarian Dance (Brahms) 1812 Overture, Sing //Groundhog Blues// - play w/Orff instruments. 4: PTO program music: Grand Old Flag, Earth is Our Mother, This Land (recorders), The Eagle (recorders & Orff), Old North State. 5: PTO program music: America the Beautiful, One Nation, Yankee Doodle (recorders), Flying Eagle (recorders & Orff), Hosisipa.
 * __Feb 1-5, 2010:__**

K: Review composer rhythm chart. Introduce the four families of the orchestra. Orchestra video excerpt. Yankee Doodle listening examples. Sing Yankee Doodle & play with Orff instruments. (scale / pentatonic echoes). 1: Composer rhythm chart, Review the four families of the orchestra. Instrument chant. Yankee Doodle listening examples. Sing Yankee Doodle / Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 2: Composer rhythm chart, Mr. Snowman Rap, "rap", Free At Last. Review the four families of the orchestra. Instrument chant. Yankee Doodle Listening examples. Sing Yankee Doodle / Orff instruments (scale / pentatonic echoes). 3: Review four families of the orchestra. Review Hungarian Dance (Brahms). Introduce Over the Waves, 1812 Overture, Yankee Doodle & Orff instruments. 4: Grand Old Flag, Earth is Our Mother, This Land (recorders), The Eagle (recorders & Orff), Old North State. 5: America the Beautiful, One Nation, Yankee Doodle (recorders), Flying Eagle (recorders & Orff), Hosisipa.
 * __Jan 25-29, 2010:__**

K: Introduce the term "composer". Composer rhythm chart. Mitten song, Sing About Martin, Orff review (scale / pentatonic echoes). 1: Composer rhythm chart, Martin Luther King song, "staff", Snowflakes poem, It's So Nice on the Ice song, (scale / pentatonic echoes). 2: Composer rhythm chart, Mr. Snowman Rap, "rap", Kid Like Me Rap (Orff), Free At Last. 3: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, Back of the Bus, Oh, Won't You Sit Down? (Orff). 4: Earth is Our Mother, This Land (recorders), The Eagle (recorders & Orff), Old North State. 5: One Nation, Yankee Doodle (recorders), Flying Eagle (recorders & Orff).
 * __Jan 4 - 8, 2010:__**


 * __Past Lessons__**

K: Check seat assignments. ABC song warm-up; "find your place" exercise, echo rhythms & voice. Introduce body scale. Speaking, singing voice. Sing "Rain", "Jack-in-Box". "Conductor": Take turns being "conductor". 1: Scale, High & Low listening to recorder and glockenspiel. Hi/Lo song (conductors). "Goodnight" & "Brown Bear". Pass the bear game while singing "Hi/Lo", etc. "Mind Your Manners" song. 2: Review staff. Sing EGBDF. Sing FACE, using FACE boomwhackers. Learn "Apollo 11" song. 3: Review staff. Sing EGBDF. Sing FACE. Lines & spaces w/ boomwhackers. FACE w/boomwhackers. 4: Students with signed letters receive new recorders. Recorder introduction for all students. p. 100, p.112-113. Handouts to go home & practice. Whisper "too". Soft air!!! B, A, G position. Hot Cross Buns homework. 5: Review recorders. Review p. 100, 112-113. Sing/play HCB, Lullaby (p. 61), Babylon, Go Round the Mountain. Practice for homework.
 * __Sep 7 -11, 2009:__**

K: Rules, Seat assignment. Sing "Hello There", ABC song (guitar, piano, rock recording), "find your place" exercise, echo rhythms & voice, "Copy That" song. 1: Body scale, echo body percussion rhythms, "conductor" for "Rain", "Jack-in-Box" and "Taffy" songs. 2: Sing "Mind Your Manners", introduce staff letter names of lines & spaces; sing "EGBDF" and "FACE". Play lines & spaces on boomwhackers. 3: p.188, hand staff review. Review staff letter names of lines & spaces; sing "EGBDF" and "FACE". Play lines & spaces on boomwhackers. 4: Pass out recorder letters & chorus information letters. Explain "left hand B position" for recorders. Review staff line & space letter names. 5: Review staff. Sing EGBDF & FACE. Review p. 100 (recorders) & 112-113 (Hot Cross Buns). Body percussion for HCB. Unpitched instruments for HCB. BRING RECORDERS TO MUSIC CLASS from now on.
 * __Aug 31 - Sep 4, 2009:__**

K-5: Welcome to 2009-2010 music!!! Check rolls; assign seats. Pass out music letters (for parents). Go over five music rules. Explain what we do in music. Review fire drill & tornado drill procedures for music classes. Power point presentation. Share music from the summer.
 * __August 25-31, 2009:__**

__**Feb 23-27, 2009**__ K: Two Little Sausages (movement), Bow, Wow, Wow (song & dance), Djurdjevka Kolo (dance), rhythm chart. 1: Two Little Sausages (movement), Bow, Wow, Wow (song & dance), Djurdjevka Kolo (dance), Limbo Rock?, rhythm chart / rhythm echo round. 2: Rhythm chart, Hey, There Neighbor (song & dance), Limbo Rock, D. Kolo, rhythm echo round. 3: Rhythm rounds, Little Shoemaker, Fjaskern, Zemir Atik (dances). 4&5: Walk as play recorders (keeping the beat), Rhythm rounds, Little Shoemaker, Fjaskern, Zemir Atik (dances).

K: Brush Your Teeth, maracas, Little Wheel A-Turning, Orff instruments: bordun & tremelo / C scale. 1: Brush Your Teeth, Maracas, Run, Children, Run, America. Quarter & Eighth notes. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. 2: Rhythm chart, The Little Frog (El Coqui - p, 282) - verse/refrain, Listen to the Water (p, 284) w/Orff accompaniment. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. 3: Mixed-up rhythm chart, I'm On My Way (p, 72) - spiritual, Kingston Market (p. 87) - rhythms. Orff accompaniments. 4: Continue learning "George Washington", "Presidents' Day", "Walk Together, Children", "We Shall Not Be Moved". Recorder parts for "We Shall Not Be Moved". Orff parts for "Walk Together Children" (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program). "Over My Head", & Linus & Lucy (recorders). 5: Continue learning "Abraham", "Pachelbel's Canon" in C major on Orff instruments, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (recorders), "Cherokee" (recorders). Orff parts for Cherokee/Canoe song (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program). "Over My Head" & "Linus & Lucy".
 * __Feb 16-20, 2009__**

K: Review "composer", "Sing About Martin", "Mitten Song", "Snowman", review the C scale on Orff instruments, play C tonic during "Snowman" song. 1: Introduce 4 families of the orchestra; look at instrument photos in textbook, review "Martin Luther King" song, "staff", "composer", "Yankee Doodle". Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. 2: "Free At Last". "Snow Rap" The term "rap". Review "Che, Che, Koolay" "Kid Like Me" rap. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Echo Che Che Koolay rhythms on Orff instruments. C pentatonic echoes. 3: Four families of the orchestra. Listening examples. "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", "Oh, Won't You Sit Down". Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Pentatonic echoes. Learn instrument accompaniment (bordun) for "Won't You Sit Down". Answer: B G B B A. 4: Continue learning "George Washington", "Presidents' Day", "Walk Together, Children", "We Shall Not Be Moved". Recorder parts for "We Shall Not Be Moved". Orff parts for "Walk Together Children" (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program). "Over My Head", & Linus & Lucy (recorders). 5: Continue learning "Abraham", "Pachelbel's Canon" in C major on Orff instruments, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (recorders), "Cherokee" (recorders). Orff parts for Cherokee (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program). "Over My Head" & "Linue & Lucy".
 * __Jan 12-Jan 16, 2009__**

K: "Sing About Martin", the term "composer", "Mitten Song", "Snowman", review the C scale on Orff instruments, play C tonic during "Snowman" song. 1: "Martin Luther King" song, introduce "staff", review "composer", "Chicken Soup". Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. 2: "Che, Che, Koolay" "Kid Like Me" rap. "Free At Last". Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Echo Che Che Koolay rhythms on Orff instruments. C pentatonic echoes. 3: "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", "Oh, Won't You Sit Down". Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Pentatonic echoes. Learn instrument accompaniment (bordun) for "Wont You Sit Down". Answer: B G B B A. 4: "George Washington", "Presidents' Day", "Walk Together, Children", "We Shall Not Be Moved". Recorder parts for "We Shall Not Be Moved". Orff parts for "Walk Together Children" (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program). 5: "Abraham", "Pachelbel's Canon" in C major on Orff instruments, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (recorders), "Cherokee" (recorders). Orff parts for Cherokee (selections for upcoming 2/23/9 PTO program).
 * __Jan 5-Jan 9, 2009__**

//Mrs. Downes will be at the National Orff Conference in Charlotte on Nov.13-14. Mrs. McWhorter will substitute.// K: "Littlest Christmas Tree" play songs: Decorate the Tree, March, Christmas is Love, Santa's Tree. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the upward scale on "tremelos". Review big side = low; little side = high. Very Fine Turkey - Play C tremelo on "Gobble". 1: Holiday PTO songs: Angel Band (on instruments), Merry Christmas Bells (on instruments), Red & Green, Pinata. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. 2: Tall Cedar Trees (Lummi Indians). Rain stick, rhythm sticks. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Learn instrument accompaniment (steady beat bordun). C pentatonic echoes. 3: Inkpataya (Native American Indian) O Hal'lwe. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Pentatonic echoes. Learn instrument accompaniment (bordun). 4: Review NC Symphony pieces: Mozart, Dvorak, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin - American in Paris & DeFalla - 3 Cornered Hat. Recorders: Jolly Old St. Nicholas. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. G pentatonic echoes. Sing America the Beautiful. 5: See fourth grade
 * __Nov 10-Nov 14, 2008__**

K: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the upward scale on "tremelos". Review big side = low; little side = high. Start "Littlest" play songs: Christmas is Love, Santa's Tree. Very Fine Turkey - Play C tremelo on "Gobble". 1: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Start Holiday PTO songs: Angel Band (on instruments), Merry Christmas Bells (on instruments), Red & Green. 2: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Learn Traffic Light words. Learn instrument accompaniment (steady beat bordun). C pentatonic echoes. 3: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. G pentatonic echoes. Learn "Won't You Sit Down" words. Learn instrument accompaniment (bordun). Terms: "solo" / "Chorus". Review staff notes: G A B. Play melodic: B G B B A? 4: Review low E & D on recorders, Canoe Song, Gershwin - American in Paris & DeFalla - 3 Cornered Hat. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. G pentatonic echoes. America the Beautiful 5: See fourth grade
 * __Nov 3-Nov 7, 2008__**

K: Introduce xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels. Review the body scale, using music alphabet. Explain mallet holding position, technique, correct posture for instruments. Play the upward scale on "tremelos". Review Down, Down. Incy Weency Spider, spider rings, Vote song. 1: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Review Down, Down - playing scale backwards on Orff. Vote song, Skin & Bones (tremelo D on "oooo" refrain). Incy Weency Spider, spider rings. 2: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Review Down, Down - playing scale backwards on Orff. Vote song, Skin & Bones (tremelo D on "oooo" refrain). Incy Weency Spider, spider rings. 3: Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Review Down, Down - playing scale backwards on Orff. Vote song. Review Abram Brown round - spider rings. 4: Review low E & D on recorders, Canoe Song, Complete Hot Cross Buns test. Tchaikovsky's Waltz from E. Onegin. Review xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, technique, posture. Play the C scale. Vote song, America the Beautiful, skeleton ring rewards for students w/recorders. 5: See fourth grade
 * __Oct 27- Oct 31, 2008 = Orff Keyboard Instruments!__**

K: Down, Down (leaves), music alphabet introduction, body scale, Skin & Bones: Jingles on "oooo" refrain 1: Zoo song (verses & refrain), rhythm rounds, music alphabet, Better Watch Out: pass unpitched percussion instruments 2: Better Watch Out (verses & refrain): pass unpitched percussion instruments, Addams Family 3: Better Watch Out (verses & refrain): Pass unpitched percussion, Abram Brown round 4: Review low E & D on recorders, Canoe Song, Hot Cross Buns test, Mozart Symph #36, 4th mvmt, Debussy La Mer intro, America the Beautiful 5: See fourth grade
 * __Oct 20- Oct 24, 2008__**

K: Brownies song: jingle bells, rhythm sticks, maracas (exchange), review rhythm chart, Jack-o-lantern, Pumpkin March 1: Round, Ghost of John & "ghosts", Halloween Song w/jingle bells 2: Skin & Bones - verses & refrain (refrain w/jingle bells), round - Ghost Of John, ghosts 3: Rhythm of I Don't Do Drugs / Steady Beat on resonator bells. Ghost of John round (round review) 4: Canoe Song (Low E review, new: Low D on recorder). Cherokee Song introduction. Four families of orchestra. America the Beautiful, Dvorak's Czech Dance, Rondo form. Next week: Hot Cross Buns "test" 5: See fourth grade
 * __Oct 13-Oct 18,2008__**

K: Rhythm notation introduction: whole, half, quarter, eighth (Halloween Rhythm Chart); Jack-o-lantern (steady beat on pumpkin plate drums); Hayride song w/jingle bells steady beat, Pumpkin March 1: Halloween rhythm chart; Rocktober (FORM: verse/refrain); Apple Harvest Song (ti ti ta rhythm); Halloween Song & Pumpkin March (verse/refrain) 2. Halloween rhythm chart; Apple Harvest, Rocktober (Form: verse & refrain); review Leatherwing Bat (vs/ref). Rewards 3: Jazz review (Good Morning Blues). Alphabet Scat (improvisation; 8-beat phrases) Blues harmony (walking bass: I IV V I harmony) Hall rhy chart. Rocktober. TK Blue upcoming presentation (short ad) If time permits: Make New Friends 4: Review recorder HCB & Lullaby. Low E on recorder. Skin & Bones. Alphabet Scat to walking I IV V I harmony. Improvisation. Improvise GAB recorder rhythms to a walking blues bass. Next week: start NC Education Symphony Concert repertoire / Canoe song (Cherokee for Groce's class) 5. See fourth grade plans (TK Blue preparation). Next week: start NC Education Symphony Concert repertoire.
 * __Oct 6-Oct 10, 2008__**

__**Sept. 29-Oct.3, 2008**__ K: Matching pitch: Ways to Use Voice / Brown Bear Solo Singing Game / In a circle, passing bears. Singing Good Night / Hi - Low on pitch. 1: Hayride w/jingles. Rhythm echoes. Leatherwing Bat Singing Game (verse/refrain). 8 beat phrase improvised steady beat movements. Pumpkin March. 2: Verse / refrain. Leatherwing Bat Singing Game (8 beat steady beat movements/phrases). Ebeneezer Sneezer / C Scale w/boomwhackers. 3: Blues / jazz. Good Morning Blues (aab form) Improvisation. T.K. Blue short video. Robert Johnson's Walkin' Blues viewing I IV V I harmony. 8 beat phrasing. Review Louis Armstrong's When the Saints & Ella Fitzgerald's Tisket a-Tasket. 4: Same as third grade, but also review recorder technique. Hot Cross Buns traditional/rock & roll accompaniment. Review Lullaby. 5: Same as above, but also I V IV I harmony on recorders for Hound Dog. (G D' C' G)