6th Grade Curriculum Guide
Quarter 1
Monday (Aug 4)
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Quarters
Tuesday
Wednesday
Tryouts
Tryouts
Inst. Rental Night
Mrs. Swanson, Grand Mesa Middle School
Thursday
Practice Card 1 Due
Reading music
Practice Card 2 Due
Theory
Practice Card 3 Due
Whole note/Flat
Aide: Perc snare pg. 6 Locker check
Perc clef
Aide: Perc snare pg. 7
Week 6
Accent
Aide: Perc pg. 8
Week 7
Single Paradiddle
CONCERT PLAYING
TEST
Practice Card 7 Due
Aide: Perc pg. 9
Week 8
Tie/2 4 time sig
Multiple Bounce
Practice Card 8 Due
Mrs. S gone to
Aide: Perc pg. 11
Last day of quarter
Week 9
Key sig/
clinic
Flam
Playing Test #41
FRIST CONCERT
Fall Break
Fall Break
Fall Break
Fall Break
st
General Daily Warm Up: Long Tones (#7), Bb Major Scale, Lip Slurs/1 5, Rhythm Studies #7 pg. 43
Week 5
Practice Card 4 Due
Half note/breath mark
Practice Card 5 Due
Quarter note/phrase
Practice Card 6 Due
Repeat/C/Fermata/Solo
etc.
1st Quarter Goals: Inst. Assembly, embouchure, basic theory, tone
Friday
Pre Test/Team Building
Fun Friday
!st test: inst.
Assembly/#7
Percussion sight reading
test for snare rights
Fun Friday
Playing Test #14
Fun Friday
Playing Test #29
Fun Friday
No school for kids
ROCKATHON
Fall Break
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Quarter 2
Monday (Oct 13th)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Week 1
Practice Card off week
Mrs. S gone
Week 2
Practice Card 1 Due
Eighth notes
Practice Card 2 Due
Aide: Perc pg. 12
Flam Tap
Mrs. S gone
Aide: Perc pg. 13
Eighth notes
Aide: Perc pg. 14
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Practice Card 3 Due
Slur/Pickup note
Practice Card 4 Due
Key
signature/dynamics
Practice Card 5 Due
Dotted half note/3 4
time
Practice Card 6 Due
Natural sign/ Accent
Mrs. Swanson, Grand Mesa Middle School
Thursday
Fun Friday
Locker Checks
Playing Test #49
Fun Friday Halloween
Aide: Perc pg. 15
Playing test #61
Aide: Perc pg. 16
Fun Friday
Aide: Perc pg. 17
Playing test #73
THANKSGIVING BREAK
CONCERT PLAYING Aide: Perc pg. 18
TEST
Flam Accent/Single
eighth note
Aide: Perc pg. 19
Practice Card 7 Due
1st 2nd endings/one
measure repeat sign
Practice Card 8 Due
CHRISTMAS
Aide: Perc pg. 20
Week 9
Long rest/divisi unision CONCERT
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
General Daily Warm Up: Long Tones #44 , Scales, Lip Slurs, Rhythm Studies #26 pg. 44
Week 8
Friday
2nd Quarter Goals: Christmas concert music, Scale building, theory addition
Fun Friday
Playing test #84
Last day of quarter/ Fun
Friday
Christmas Break
Christmas Break
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Mrs. Swanson, Grand Mesa Middle School
Quarter 3
Monday (Jan 5th)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Week 1
Work day no kids
Practice Card off
week
Key Signature
Aide: Perc pg. 21
Playing test #97
Week 2
Practice Card 1 Due
D.C. al Fine/Sharp
Fun Friday
Week 3
No School
Practice Card 2 Due
Week 4
Practice Card 3 Due
CONCERT PLAYING
TEST
Week 5
Practice Card 4 Due
Single eighth
note/dotted eighth
note
Practice Card 5 Due
Aide: Perc pg. 22
Sixteenth notes/Flam
Paradiddle
Aide: Perc pg. 24
Sixteenth note
combination
Aide: Perc pg. 25
Mrs. S CMEA
Aide: Perc pg. 26
Week 6
CHAMBER MUSIC
CONCERT
Aide: Perc pg. 27
Nine Stroke roll
Aide: Perc pg. 28
Five Stroke roll
Aide: Perc pg. 29
Thursday
Mrs. S CMEA
Playing Test #111
Mrs. S CMEA
Fun Friday
Locker Checks
Solo Ensemble today
Practice Card 6 Due
Dynamics
Practice Card 7 Due
Week 8
Tempos/Dynamics
Practice Card 8 Due
Aide: Perc pg. 30
Last day of quarter
Week 9
Tempos
Playing test #134
General Daily Warm Up: Long Tones (#44) , Scales, Lip Slurs, Rhythm Studies #26 pg. 44
3rd Quarter Goals: Chamber music and solo performing
Week 7
Friday
Playing Test #122
Fun Friday
No school for kids
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Quarter 4
Monday (March 9)
Week 1
Week 2
Practice Card off week
Week 3
Practice Card 2 Due
Week 4
Practice Card 3 Due
Tuesday
Pre Fest Concert
and 6th Grade
Wednesday
Aide: Perc pg. 31
C S A P
SPRING
BREAK
Aide: Perc pg. 32
Seventeen Stroke Roll
Aide: Perc pg. 33
Mrs. Swanson, Grand Mesa Middle School
Thursday
Friday
Fun Friday
Playing Test #146
Locker Checks
Mrs. S at Festival
Aide: Perc pg. 34
Aide: Perc pg. 35
Aide: Perc pg. 36-37
Rim Shot
Practice
Card
7
Due
Aide: Perc. pg. 38
FINAL CONCERT
Week 8
(last one)
Drum set
Last day of school
Work Day
Week 9
General Daily Warm Up: Long Tones (#44) , Scales, Lip Slurs, Rhythm Studies #26 pg. 44
7th Quarter Goals: Enrichment and Refinement
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Practice Card 4 Due
Practice Card 5 Due
Practice Card 6 Due
Quarters
Fun Friday
Mrs. S. At Festival
Playing Test #155
Fun Friday