Teacher Name : Andrea Stiff
Subject : Music Education
Start Date: 1/4/16
Grade Level (s): 3-6
Building : MMEMS
Unit Title: 3rd- Perform rhythmic and vocal ostinatos with select winter speech pieces and perform choreography while singing a winter song
4th- Perform winter songs vocally, as well as create lyrics to their own winter song. Students will be evaluated on basic rhythmic patterns.
5th- Perform a round or canon vocally with a winter song. Students will perform melodic and rhythmic ostinatos to a speech piece and song.
6th- Analyze a winter song and create an illustration based on the events of the winter song. Perform a winter song vocally.
Essential Questions: 3rd- What is an accompaniment? What is a steady beat? What is rhythm?
4th- What is rhythm? What are lyrics?
5th- What is a canon? What is harmony? What is unison? What is an melodic or rhythmic ostinato?
6th- What is melody? What is program music? How do we analyze music?
Standards:
9.1.3.B: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original
Works in the arts.
9.1.3.C: Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms
9.1.3.K: Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.
Summative Unit Assessment :
Summative Assessment Objective
Students will perform a vocal melody using correct lyrics with their
voice. Students will perform movements while singing a melody.
Students will perform speech pieces. Students will perform rhythmic
and melodic ostinatos to winter songs or speech pieces. Students will
create their own illustration depicting an event from program music.
Students will analyze a music listening example. Students will create
harmony.
Assessment Method (check one)
__X_ Rubric ___ Checklist ____ Unit Test _X___ Group
____ Student Self-Assessment
__X_ Other (explain) Listening guides, Program Music Illustration,
Performances.
Day
Objective (s)
3rd- Students will successfully
perform the speech piece A
Season.
4th- Students will successfully
identify the winter season and
perform Let’s Play in the Snow.
5th- Students will successfully
perform Knock No More
6th- Students will successfully
review old English vocabulary
and identify unfamiliar words
1
2
3rd- Students will successfully
perform the speech piece The
More it Snows.
4th- Students will successfully
identify rhythmic patterns and
perform Frosty Weather
5th- Students will successfully
DOK
LEVEL
Activities / Teaching Strategies
3rd-Student- Will listen to teacher speak A
Season
Student- Will create their own sound effects
To accompany A Season
Student- Perform sound effects
Student- Perform A Season sound effect
Rotating turns so everyone has
Had a chance to perform each
4th- Student- Discussion about proper winter
Outdoor play clothing
Student- Listen to Lets Play in the Snow
Student- Rock from side to side to steady
During sung parts
Student- Pretend to put on winter attire
During instrumental parts
5th-Teacher- Introduce Knock No More
Student- Read about the song at the top of
Page 386-3rdMM
Student- Listen to Knock No More picking
Out vocabulary that tells us this
Song is about winter
Student- Echo sing Knock No More
6th- Student- Read lyrics to Good King
Wenceslas
Student- Listen and follow the words to
song
Student- Discussion about unfamiliar words
3rd- Student- Perform song
Teacher- Divide class into three groups
Teacher- Pass out rhythm instruments
Student- Perform Steady beat with rhythm
Instruments and perform song
Student- Rotate so all student perform
Various instruments.
Grouping
DAILY PLAN
Materials / Resources
Assessment of Objective (s)
Ukulele, white board markers,
pointer, pencils, CD Player,
Kindergarten CD, Lyric Sheet
for Jolly St. Nicholas, document
camera, Music Express; Dec.
2015 Magazine, Music Express
CD, YouTube Access, Winter
Words Syllable sheet
Formative- Teacher
Observation of student
engagement and vocal
production.
Ukulele, white board, white
board marker, document
camera, Frosty Weather music
sheet, Frosty Weather quiz,
rhythm instruments, 3rd Grade
Making Music text books, 5th
Grade Share the music text
Formative- Teacher
observation of student
engagement and vocal
production.
Summative3rd- performing song
4th- performing song
5th- performing song
6th- class discussion
Summative3rd- Students completion
3
identify winter adjectives and
define and perform a canon
6th- Will successfully identify
inflections in vocal production
and identify vocabulary
4th- Teacher- Perform Frosty Weather
Student- Echo sing Frosty Weather
Student- Discuss rhythmic syllables and
Notation
Student- Pass out Frosty Weather quiz
Teacher- Introduce how to complete
Rhythm quiz
Student- Complete rhythmic notation quiz
5th- Student- Perform Knock No More
Teacher- Introduce movements to Knock
No More
Student- Perform the song and movements
To Knock No More
6th- Student- Review old English vocabulary
Student- Listen to Good King Wenceslas
Student- Discussion on did the voices stay
The same or were they different
Teacher- Review the series of events that
Take place in the song
Student- Perform first verse of Good King
Wenceslas
books
displaying a steady beat.
4th- Students completion of
Frosty Weather rhythm quiz.
5th- Students performance of
Knock No More with
movements.
6th- Students performance of
first verse of Good King
Wenceslas.
3rd- Students will successfully
perform rhythmic patterns to
The More it Snows.
4th- Students will compose
their own lyrics about a snowplay activity to the melody of
Frosty Weather.
5th- Students will perform and
define what a canon or round
is
6th- Illustrate an event from the
song Good King Wenceslas
3rd- Student- Perform The More it Snows
Teacher- Introduce short sections of the
Rhythm of the words
Student- Echo perform each rhythm
Teacher- Pass out rhythm sticks, hand
Drums and triangles
Student- Perform tiddely-pom of speech
Piece
Student- Rotate instruments
Teacher- Perform each rhythm in lap
Student- Echo perform each rhythm
Student- Perform a designate section of
The More it Snows on rhythm
Instruments
4th- Student- Perform Frosty Weather
Student- Discussion on favorite snow play
Activities
Teacher-List favorite snow play activities on
Ukulele, Document camera,
White board, Markers,
Crayons, Markers, 5th Grade
Share the Music, Lyric sheets,
rhythm instruments, staff
paper, plain white printer
paper
Formative- Teacher
Observation of student
engagement and vocal
production.
Summative3rd- performing rhythmic
patterns on percussion
instruments
4th- composing lyrical
arrangements
5th- performing song in a
three-part round
6th- illustration
4
3rd- Successfully perform a
steady beat as well as vocal
production for Snowflakes
Falling Down with movements
4th-Successfully perform their
own lyrical composition of
Frosty Weather
5th- Successfully perform a
melodic ostinato using
glockenspiels to Knock No
More
Board
Teacher- Explain sequential order
Teacher- Assign composing task where
Students must write their own
lyrics to the melody Frosty
Weather
Student- Write lyrics as a table group
5th- Student- Discussion about what a canon or
Round is
Teacher- Clarification on definition
Student- Perform part I of Knock No More
Teacher- Perform part II of Knock No More
Teacher- Discuss harmony
Student- Perform part I and part II Knock
No More
Teacher- Introduce part III of Knock No
More
Student- Placed in three groups and
Perform a three-part canon for
Knock No More with movements.
6th- Student- Watch YouTube video on the
Events of Good King Wenceslas as
A review
Student- View examples of scene
Depictions from text book
Student- Pass out blank piece of paper
Student- Write caption using lyrics from
Song
Student- Illustrate scene from that caption
Being sure to include weather,
Characters and correct setting
3rd- Teacher- Discuss how skating sound may
Be performed using body
Percussion
Student- Echo teachers movements while
Listening to Skaters Waltz
Student- Discussion on winter holidays
Teacher- Perform Snowflakes Falling Down
Student- Echo perform
Teacher- Demonstrate movements while
Performing proper vocal tone
Student- Echo perform
Ukulele, Document camera,
White board, Markers,
Crayons, Markers, 5th Grade
Share the Music, Lyric sheets,
rhythm instruments, staff
paper, plain white printer
paper, glockenspiels
Formative- Teacher
Observation of student
engagement and vocal
production.
Summative3rd- performing body
percussion and song
4th- performing lyrical
composition
5th- performing melodic
5
6th- Successfully complete an
illustration depicting an event
from the song Good King
Wenceslas
Student- Perform Snowflakes Falling Down
With good vocal tone and
Movements.
4th- Student- complete lyrical composition
Student- Practice lyrical compositions as a
Group
Student- Perform group songs for whole
Class
5th- Teacher- Introduce glockenspiel parts to
Knock No More
Student- Echo speak line, identifying the
Repeat sign correctly
Teacher- Introduce parts of glockenspiel
And proper mallet use
Teacher- Perform glockenspiel part using
Mallets
Student- “Air Glockenspiel”
Student- Perform Knock No More
Glockenspiel part
Student- Echo speak bass mallet part
Teacher- Perform bass mallet part
Student- “Air bass mallet”
Student- Perform Knock No More bass
Mallet part
6th- Student- Complete illustration of a scene
From Good King Wenceslas
Student- Use crayons or markers to
Complete illustration.
5th- Successfully perform a
melodic ostinato using
glockenspiels to Knock No
More
6th- Successfully complete an
illustration depicting an event
from the song Good King
Wenceslas
5th- Teacher- Introduce poem dragon smoke
Teacher- Discuss the difference between a
Rhythmic ostinato and melodic
Ostinato
Student- Table groups choose one
Rhythm instrument to accompany
Student- Perform rhythmic accompaniment
To Dragon Smoke
Student- Rotate instrument until each
Student has performed
6th- Student- Discussion about winter scenes
Student- Echo sing Winter Wonderland
Teacher- Introduce listening guide sheets
ostinato on glockenspiels
6th- Illustration depicting a
scene from Good King
Wenceslas
Ukulele, Document camera,
White board, 3rd Grade Making
Music text books, 5th Grade
Making Music text books,
rhythm instruments, listening
guide
Formative- Teacher
Observation of student
engagement and vocal
production.
Summative5th- performing rhythmic
ostinato on classroom
instruments
6th- Performing song and
listening guide
Student- complete listening guide sheet
While listening to Musical Sleigh
Ride