Music: Grade 4
Revised August 2014
Unit 1
Week Topic
1
2
3
Classroom rules
and procedures.
Review of note
names.
Vocal warm-ups
Singing of Star
Spangled Banner
and significance
of the song
Review of vocal
warm-ups.
Review of Star
Spangled
Banner.
Introduce Alma
Mater.
Cumulative song
Cumulative
songs cont.
Veteran’s Day
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Flash cards with notes and symbols on them. Teach about the voice and do various warmups. Talk about the Star Spangled Banner and sing it.
Flash cards with note
names
Poster with Star Spangled
Banner Words
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Will review vocal warm-ups. Will review Star Spangled Banner.
Will introduce the Alma Mater and talk about the significance of it. Also will talk about the
meaning of the words. Words shown on Smart Board and students will echo sing.
Introduce cumulative song. Listen and list cumulative parts on board. Each class row is a
cumulative part and in singing and performing the song the class creates a wave type effect.
Grade 4 Share the Music
Book and CD
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Talk about Veteran’s Day/begin Air Force Song
Court of King Carraticus/list cumulative parts/listen/add movement/replace movement with
instruments
Share the Music 4 bk.
& CD
Music: Grade 4
Unit 2:Veteran’s Day & Christmas
Topic
1
2
3
4
Veteran’s Day
songs
Christmas songs
Veteran’s Day
Christmas
Halloween/phrase
& ostinato &
round
Veteran’s Day
Christmas
Halloween/repeat
& form
Veteran’s Day
Christmas
Halloween
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Work on Air Force Song, Coast Guard Song
Begin Christmas program songs
Music for Veteran’s Day
and Christmas
9.1, 9.2
Work on Air Force and Coast Guard Songs
Work on Christmas Program songs
Ghost of John/arch the phrases/talk about what a phrase is/use ostinato/what is an ostinato/sing
in round
9.1
Work on Air Force and Coast Guard Songs
Work on Christmas Songs
Dry Bones/explain repeats/what is the form/listen/add a different motion for each section
Share the Music 4 bk.
& CD
9.1
Work on Air Force and Coast Guard Songs
Work on Christmas Songs
Review Dry Bones and Ghost of John or finish learning them
Share the Music 4 bk.
& CD
Share the Music 4 bk.
& CD
5
Veteran’s Day
Christmas
Halloween
9.1
6
Veteran’s Day
Christmas
Program
9.1
Air Force and Coast Guard songs
Christmas Program Songs
Music for
Veteran’s Day and
Christmas
7
Christmas
Program Songs
9.1
Christmas Program Songs
Music for
Christmas
Air Force and Coast Guard Songs
Christmas Program Songs
IF TIME: Boogie Woogie Ghost/find the form and add ostinato
Share the Music 4 bk. &
CD
Music: Grade 4
Topic
8
9
Christmas
Program
Instrument
Families
Christmas
Program
Line up for risers
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
Resources
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Work on Christmas Program
Talk about 4 families of instruments/Promenade by Mussorgsky/follow listening map
Share the Music 4 bk. &
CD
Christmas music
9.1, 9.2
Line up class by height and pretend they are going onto the risers/sit this way until the concert
Work on Christmas Program
Christmas Music
10
Christmas
program
9.1
Work on Christmas Program
Christmas Music
11
Disney Christmas
Carol DVD
9.1
View Disney Christmas Carol DVD
Disney DVD
Music: Grade 4
Unit 3: Flutophones
Topic
1
2
3 till
mid
April
Review of staff
reading
flutophones
Learning to play
the Flutophone
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1
9.1
9.1
Details
Resources
>flash the note flash cards/review the lines and spaces on the board
>play staff twister
>complete worksheet on lines and spaces
Note flash cards
Staff twister
Worksheet
pencils
>pass out flutophones and books
>go over the care for the flutophone
>rules for flutophone
>karate belt tests
>teach B
>we will sequentially learn the notes of the flutophone starting with B, A, G, E, D, C, F
>We will continue each week where we left off from the previous week/their book is on the
smartboard
>many exercises are accompanied by a CD
>Periodically they will be evaluated on a specific exercise by playing alone/successfully
completing this they will earn a ribbon corresponding to the karate belts
>by mid April most students will be able to successfully play a 4, 5, and 6 note melody alone
and together
Flutophones
books
Smart board with
flutophone book and
CD’s
Various colors of
ribbon
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Music: Grade 4
Unit 4: Musicals
Share the Music
bk. 4 & CD
Share the Music bk. 4 &
CD
1
What is a
Musical
2
The Cat and the
Rat
Copy Cat
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
>Copy Cat/listen/call and response song/listen for the recorder/sing
>Day Oh/review 1st and 2nd endings/listen/familiar song from what movie/echo sing and
sing/play banana boat rhythm using rhythm sticks/talk about why they can grow bananas and
why they load them at night
3
Just Tap It
(speech piece)
2-part
9.1
>Just tap It/discover that it is a speech piece by realizing there are not staffs on the
page/listen/teach body ostinato using body percussion/perform ostinato with CD/speak
words in rhythm/split class and perform both parts together
4
Cat’s Drum
2-parts
9.1
>Cat’s Drum/listen/realize there are no words just drumming/learn drum parts by saying an
ostinato with it/split class and put parts together/use drums for the 2 parts and play together
Share the Music bk. 4
& CD
9.1
>listen/discover that there are no words just 3 various instruments playing the 3 different
parts/teach bass xylophone part by hand motions in air/teach guiro part by listening to
recording/put all 3 parts together (I will play alto xylophone part
>complete reading the musical
Share the Music bk. 4
& CD
5
Bassay Down
9.1, 9.2,
9.3
>discuss what a musical is
>Cat and the Rat – musical in books
>Down Jamaica Way/look at repeat signs and first and second
endings/talk about where this musical takes place and who the
characters are/echo sing/teach calypso movement and perform
Share the Music bk.
4 & CD
Music: Grade 4
Music: Grade 4
Unit 5: George Frederic Handel
>power point on Handel
>choose a student to be Handel/pass out several questions to
students that they ask Handel and he answers/students learn facts
about him/perform parachute routine to Hallelujah Chorus by
looking at map on smart board
Power point
Handel questions
Parachutes
Share the Music
bk. 4 CD
Handel worksheet
Handel’s Last Chance VHS
1
Study of
Handel and his
music
2
Study of Handel
9.1, 9.2
>complete worksheet on Handel
>view video “Handel’s Last Chance”
3
Study of Handel
9.1, 9.2
>completion of Handel’s Last Chance
9.1, 9.2
Handel’s Last Chance
VHS
Music: Grade 4
Music: Grade 4
Music: Grade 4