Kindergarten Unit 4!

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Rotation 1

Lesson Name Fall! Rake the Leaves Apple Pie! Fall Leaves! Think and Clap Your First Name 1,2 Buckle My Shoe! Roll Over Seven Jumps! Ten Little Candles The Baby Mice! On the Go Bubble Bubble! Lullaby All Around the Kitchen! Sally Has One Friend Grandmas Spectacles Plenty Fishes! Friendship Mamas in the Kitchen! ! !

Essential Questions high/low! pulse! repertoire pulse! high/low! long/short

Objectives

how many buckles/velcro, strings does your shoe pulse! have? fast/slow! dramatic play Whats your favorite winter holiday tradition and why? Can you name any other small animals?! ! Discuss soft/versus loud in relation to musical settings pulse, phrase! unpitched percussion technique phrase! pulse pulse! unpitched percussion pulse! repertoire phrase Who is your closest friend and why? Why should the hand drum be played quietly? ! same/different! pulse, phrase

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1st Grade Unit 4!

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Rotation 1

Lesson Name

Essential Questions

Objectives

Yankee Doodle
Chase the squirrel! Hop Old Squirrel Engin Engine Walk and Stop! Wait a Phrase I can play the woodblock! Now;s the Time! Body Notation Game! Popsicle stick game! Yuki Song! Jim Along I can play the woodblock

discuss the meaning of the song and what they it means

phrase, pulse
mallet technique

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whats the difference between a hop and a jump? Have you ever ridden on a train? describe it?

repertoire, unpitched perc. ta-ti-ti phrase

What are somethings that you are thankful for? ! what else could you use a popsicle stick for? discuss native american culture!

unpitched perc. technique! Nows the Time ta-ti-ti pulse, vocal repertoire vocal repertoire rhythm patterns

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2nd Grade Unit 4!

Rotation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Lesson Name

Essential Questions

Objectives

All Round the BRickyard

Jelly in the Bowl Rhythm Cards! All Round the Brickyard Moving to the Pulse! SML Cards Jeremiah Grandma Grunts Mabel Mabel! Moving to the Pulse Rhythm Cards! So La Mi Game Opposites Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

What do you think a brickyard is?

pulse, repertoire
ostinato

Describe the sounds of the instruments.

label pitched percussion pulse! SML forte/piano! ABA

What are some other sounds we can make with our mouths that aren't words?

half note pulse SML! quarter eighth rest

Have the kids list some words and ask them to present opposites of them. Have any of you ever felt the way Molly felt?

pulse phrase/literature

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3rd Grade UNit 4!

Rotation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Lesson Name

Essential Questions

Objectives

12th street rag

Bear Hunting Song hill and gully rider Four Beats After! Great Big House Four Beats After! Great Big House When Johnny Comes Marching Home When Johnny Comes Marching Home Great Big House (dance) Radio Game Smitty

discuss the evolution from ragtime to hiphop rhythm patterns

native american knowledge discuss Jamaica and the differences between a hill and a gully pulse rhythm patterns pulse, canon! label high Do pulse, canon! label high Do What is the meaning of the song? What is the meaning of the song? high Do, Coda What is you favorite radio song? why? rhythm patterns phrase repertoire, ostinato! repertoire, ostinato!

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4th Grade Unit 4!

Rotation 1 2 3

Lesson Name

Essential Questions

Objectives

recorder BAG its in the BAG recorder listening! Oh it aint gonna rain get up get up! hand staff! radio game hot cross buns!
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo Get Down Get Down (drum activity) Old Tom White Old Tom White (cont.)

discuss the mechanics of a wind instrument

BAG BAG

why are some instruments low and some high talk about the invent of the radio! if you had a radio show what would the content be?

families of instruments eighth notes! lines and spaces! BAG SR-BAG

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Discuss Illinois

pulse rhythm patterns, pstinato rhythm patterns, ostinato

Geometry Zombie Activity Geometry Zombie Activity

Sr-BAG Sr-BAG

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5th Grade Unit 5!

Rotation 1

Lesson Name

Essential Questions

Objectives

pomme de reinette
pomme de reinette continued! treble clef word cards! BAG review 2-4-6-8 treble clef words game! assessing treble clef
spider stew spider stew (continued) skin and bones Run for your Life

discuss france and show map

prepare eighth notes and two sixteenths

what other words can you spell using the treble staff? what other expressions can you name

lines/spaces! BAG expression lines/spaces assessment

rhythm patterns rhythm patterns

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discuss the skeletal system

Sr-BAGE label mezzoforte