Primary Music!
Kindergarten – August September
1. We begin each class with the song “Welcome to Music” and “Welcome Boys and Girls”.
2. We are singing many songs about animals and learning the sounds each animal makes.
Some of these songs are “Goin’ To The Farm”, “Listen to the Ducks”, “Little Ducks Are Funny”, “Listen to the Hens”, “Goosey, Goosey Gander”, “Old MacDonald”, “Listen to the Lambs”, “Mary Had A Little Lamb”, “Chook, Chook”, “Little Bo Peep”.
3. Other music/songs/chants are help students follow directions such as
“Join In The Game”, “Listen As I Play The Beat”, “Open, Shut Them”, “The Freeze”, “Count and Go”, “Say Hello”, “Hey Betty Martin”, “Name That Tune”, and“Cookie Jar Chant”
4. We are also learning our four voices – speaking, whispering, shouting, and singing!
1st Grade – August September
1. We sing most of the music class and play “games” with the songs.
Some of the songs are: “Dooby, Dooby, Dooby, Doo”, “Little Red Wagon”, “Wheels On The Bus”, “Hot Cross Buns”.
2. We have learned “So-Mi” with the song “Snail, Snail”.
3. We are reviewing classroom concepts with “Rock Around the Alphabet”, “Apples and Bananas”, “We All Live Together”, “Ten In The Bed”.
4. We are singing the scale ascending and descending with “Jack and Jill”.
5. We are learning to listen and follow directions with “Grand Old Duke Of York”, “Listen to the Rhythm”, “The Freeze”, “Sam, the Robot Man”
6. High and low sounds are developed with “Mountaintop Monster”, “Three Little Monkeys”
7. Gross motor skills and steady beat are developed with “Charlie Brown”.
8. Students have learned that sounds have “color”. We call it tone color. We have listened to “Sounds Around Us”, “What Keeps A Beat?”
9. We have learned the music element of form with songs ABA and AABA.
10. We conclude each class with “The Music Time Is Over”.
2nd Grade – August September
1. We begin and end each class with ““Welcome to Music” and “The Music Time Is Over”.
2. We sing and practice gross motor skills. Some of these will be used with instruments in a month or so. These songs are: “Okkitokiunga”, “Go! Go! Go!”, “Ha, Ha, This Away”, “Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands”, “I Can Keep the Beat”, “Charlie Over the Ocean”.
3. We have sung with dynamics and tempo changes with “Poor Little Bug”, “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt”
4. We are reviewing classroom and historical concepts: “2-4-6-8”, “I’ve Been Working on The Railroad”.
5. We are working on music ranges with “I Can Sing A High Note”.
6. We are working on other songs with directions: “Vacation Fun”, “The Freeze”.
7. Other songs are: “Bell Horses”, “Obwisana”, “Traffic Light”.
8. We have worked on dynamics, tempo, and ranges.
3rd Grade – August September
1. We began the school year by singing at the 10th Anniversary of September 11th. The students sang “This Land Is Your Land”. They were excellent in knowing the notes and words and with being appropriate in the service. Thanks to all the parents who brought the students and attended the service. We have also learned the locating of redwood forests, states surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, and the name of the New York Islands. We also know what “roamed” and “rambled” mean.
2. We have sung the following songs: “I’m Glad I’m Back At School”, “Nothing”, “A Rig-A-Jig-Jig”, “Remember Me”
3. We have learned the following chants/rhythms:“Talk to Me”, “Number Concentration
4. We have worked on gross motor skills on “Up the Ladder”, “Fuzzy Wuzzy”, “Down To The Baker’s Shop”, “The Golden Rule”, “Plainsies Clapsies”
5. We are learning to sing the canon “Whoopee Cushion”.
6. We are listening to and analyzing “Viennese Musical Clock”.
7. Other concepts learned include the form AB, ABA, and rondo form (ABACA), quarter rests
8. We have worked on memorization, multitasking, steady beat (with and without metronome), and body percussion
9. We have used the floor staff and hand Staff
Primary Enrichment
We are studying “The Carnival of the Animals” by French composer Saint-Saens. After listening to many of the songs the students can aurally distinquish between the different animals. We have also listened and learned staccato, legato, so-mi, string bass, high and low, steady beat. We have also learned information about elephants, kangaroos, swans, aviaries,
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3rd Grade
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie
Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
Chorus
This land was made for you and me!
This land was made for you and me!