MUSIC NOTES
September 2012
Mrs. Ahmad and Mrs. Edwards
KINDERGARTEN
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Identify sounds as loud or soft.
2. Sing a song with contrasting dynamics.
3. Move with nonlocomotor movements on the steady beat.
4. Move on the steady beat to recorded music of different styles and tempos.
5. Move to show the steady beat.
6. Identify environmental sounds as high or low.
7. Move to show high and low sounds.
8. Sing a song that includes vocal sound effects.
9. Sing a song using a variety of vocal tone colors as “sound effects”.
10. Improvise vocal sounds that suggest the sounds of a train.
11. Sing, speak, shout, or whisper as cued by the lyrics of a song.
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Hello,
There!, Copycat, Hi-Dee-Roon, Juba, O ma washi, Ikhanda, maslombe, 1,2,3,4,
Toaster Time, I’m Tall, I’m Small, Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!, Los trencitos,
Mbombera and Voice Choice.
FIRST GRADE
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Move to show louder and softer dynamics by using larger and smaller
movements.
2. Move with the steady beat while listening and singing.
3. Identify steady beat in music.
4. Identify beat and rhythm patterns by reading iconic notation.
5. Sing the “echo” part in a song.
6. Perform the calls and the responses in a speech piece.
7. Identify ascending melodic leaps in a melody.
8. Perform small hand movements to show melodic direction.
9. Read iconic notation to identify same and different melodic phrases.
10. Use two different movements to show same or different melodic patterns.
11. Sing a song that uses singing, speaking, whispering, and shouting.
12. Sing a call-and-response song, alternating solo voices and chorus.
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: A Different
Beat, Run, Molly, Run, My Legs and I, Windshield Wipers, Walk in the Room,
Buenos dias, Apples, Peaches, Pears, and Plums, Down by the Bay, Mashed
Potatoes, The Little Green Frog, Leaves, Las estaciones, Phoebe, Here Comes
Valerie and Sing! Speak! Whisper! Shout!.
SECOND GRADE
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Sing louder and softer phrases.
2. Perform steady beat and melodic rhythms using movement and body
percussion.
3. Perform rhythms from notation that include quarter notes, eighth notes and
quarter rests.
4. Perform rhythmic ostinato patterns.
5. Move to show the different sections in a call-and-response song.
6. Listen to a melody with high and low pitches and identify them in the music
notation.
7. Sing a melody while moving to indicate changes in direction.
8. Read so, mi and la from notation.
9. Listen for and identify vocal and body percussion sounds in accompaniment.
10. Identify thin and thick texture through performing a speech piece with multiple
ostinatos.
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Gonna
Have a Good Time, Heigh-Ho, Time to Sing, Go Around the Corn, Sally, Xiao yin
chaun, Un pajarito, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, Lone Star Trail, My Father’s
House, Lucy Locket, Pizza, Pizza, Daddy-o and Down, Down, Baby.
THIRD GRADE
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Perform steady beat movements that reflect the dynamics of a song.
2. Perform rhythmic patterns to accompany a speech piece.
3. Notate an original rhythm composition using eighth notes, quarter notes and
quarter rests.
4. Read rhythm patterns that include sixteenth notes, eighth notes and half
notes.
5. Sing a song in AABA form.
6. Move to show two different sections of a song.
7. Perform on a mallet instrument phrases with notes that move up, down, and
repeat.
8. Sing and read a melody that includes the pitches mi, re, and do.
9. Create a pentatonic song.
10. Identify different solo voices.
11. Identify music excerpts as solo voices with accompaniments or solo voices
without accompaniment.
12. Play rhythmic ostinatos to accompany a folk song.
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Hello to
All the Children of the World, Supercalifragilisticexialidocious, Name, Name,
What’s You Name?, Gypsy in the Moonlight, Alligator Pie, Ding,
Dong, Diggidiggidong , Golden Ring Around the Susan Girl, Au clair de la lune,
Ambos a dos, and Joy to the World, I Don’t Care if the Rain comes Down,
Prelude in E Minor, Oh, Won’t You Sit Down, Ida Red, Mud, Make New Friends
and La Pulga de San Jose’.
FOURTH GRADE
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Sing alone and with others.
2. Play Instruments in meters of 2,3,4,5 and 7
3. Listen to and analyze musical selections
4. Evaluate musical performances
5. Organize beats into measures of 2,3 and 4
6. Determine the pattern a conductor would use to lead an orchestra
7. Write and perform a three and four meter chant
8. Move to show the strong and weak beats of a song
9. Create beat patterns using an interactive music website game
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Beat on
the Loose, Zombie Walk, Keep the Beat in Silence, Rondo Alla Turca, Bratwurst
Waltz, The Beat, Cricket Dance, Washington Post, Head in the Clouds, Ice
Skating Waltz, Techno Two, Alpine Waltz and Western Skies.
FIFTH GRADE
Through a variety of songs and listening selections, the students will:
1. Sing alone and with others.
2. Play Instruments in meters of 2,3,4,5 and 7
3. Listen to and analyze musical selections
4. Evaluate musical performances
5. Organize beats into measures of 2,3 and 4
6. Determine the pattern a conductor would use to lead an orchestra
7. Write and perform a three and four meter chant
8. Move to show the strong and weak beats of a song
9. Create beat patterns using an interactive music website game
These concepts will be taught through the use of fun songs including: Beat on
the Loose, Zombie Walk, Keep the Beat in Silence, Rondo Alla Turca, Bratwurst
Waltz, The Beat, Cricket Dance, Washington Post, Head in the Clouds, Ice
Skating Waltz, Techno Two, Alpine Waltz and Western Skies.
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THE CHORUS LINE
The Lake Windward Chorus is learning new music for our Winter concerts!
Mrs. Ahmad is the chorus teacher this year. 4th grade rehearses on Friday
mornings and 5th grade rehearses on Tuesday mornings. Some musical
concepts that are being taught during September include: posture, diction,
breathing techniques, tone color, listening skills and movement. Our first concert
will be Thursday, Nov. 8 at Alpharetta HS. It will be a cluster concert. The
students will have an opportunity to perform two songs and listen to other
elementary school choruses, a middle school chorus and a high school chorus
perform.
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