This document provides an overview of the vocal music curriculum for second grade students taught by Diana Fox over the course of a year. It is divided into 5 topics: rhythm, pitch, movement/listening skills, tone color/meter/dynamics, and composers. Each topic contains 3-4 lesson plans that introduce various musical concepts and skills like steady beat, rhythm, melody, dynamics, and composers' works. The lessons generally involve singing songs, moving to music, playing instruments, and identifying elements like pitch and rhythm. Most lessons also include a related writing assignment for students such as creating stories, poems, or art in response to the music.
This document provides an overview of the vocal music curriculum for second grade students taught by Diana Fox over the course of a year. It is divided into 5 topics: rhythm, pitch, movement/listening skills, tone color/meter/dynamics, and composers. Each topic contains 3-4 lesson plans that introduce various musical concepts and skills like steady beat, rhythm, melody, dynamics, and composers' works. The lessons generally involve singing songs, moving to music, playing instruments, and identifying elements like pitch and rhythm. Most lessons also include a related writing assignment for students such as creating stories, poems, or art in response to the music.
This document provides an overview of the vocal music curriculum for second grade students taught by Diana Fox over the course of a year. It is divided into 5 topics: rhythm, pitch, movement/listening skills, tone color/meter/dynamics, and composers. Each topic contains 3-4 lesson plans that introduce various musical concepts and skills like steady beat, rhythm, melody, dynamics, and composers' works. The lessons generally involve singing songs, moving to music, playing instruments, and identifying elements like pitch and rhythm. Most lessons also include a related writing assignment for students such as creating stories, poems, or art in response to the music.
Topic 1: Steady Beat/Rhythm Lessons: 1. Say Your Name: Students will pat to determine if music and a poem have steady beat or no steady beat and pat with the beat to develop skill in keeping a beat.. a. Writing assignment: Students will create a word web that describes them. 2. If you Need a Buddy: Students will clap the rhythm of the words to a steady beat and read notation for one and two sounds to a beat a. Students will write a short story. 3. Jambo: Students will demonstrate the ability to change from patting with the steady beat to clapping the rhythm of the words a. Writing assignment: Students will create animals using thumb prints and write about them 4. Obo Asi Me Nsa: Students will identify rests in a song by gesturing to show beats on which there is silence and perform a four-beat rhythm pattern while listening. a. Writing assignment: Students will create beat boxes. Topic 2: Pitch Lessons: 1. Kye Kye Kule: Students will chose to speak or sing a line from a song. a. Writing Assignment: Students will write about the different voices. 2. Here We Sit: Students will raise and lower hands to show higher and lower pitches a. Writing Assignment: Students will write or draw about items they see before and after on a tray. 3. I Have A Car Part One: Students will move to show the shape of a melody a. Writing Assignment: Children will label car parts on pictures they draw. 4. I Have a Car Part Two: Students will read notation for Mi, So, & La. a. Writing Assignment: Students will write and sing their own Mi, So, & La melodies. Topic 3: Movement/Listening Skills 1. The Thing That Isnt There: Students will sing a song expressively and accompany a poem with unpitched instruments a. Students will use known rhythms to write words to an introduction and coda 2. In The Hall of the Mountain King/Pick a Pumpkin: Students will move to fit the mood of the music and dramatize a song a. Writing Assignment: Students will list characteristics of a pumpkin 3. Rocky Mountain: Students will perform a folk dance
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Year Overview- Second a. Writing Assignment: Students will create and write out directions for a dance 4. Martin Luther King: Students will identify phrase structure and play an accompaniment using half notes. a. Writing Assignment: Students will write new verses for Martin Luther King using the same phrase structure. Topic 5: Tone Color/Meter/Dynamics Lessons: 1. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt: Students will sing a song following dynamic indications of forte and piano and signal to show aural recognition of forte and piano. a. Students will write a radio script that incorporates loud and soft sounds. 2. A Sailor Went to Sea: Students will point to the picture of each family of unpitched instruments as it is hear and play unpitched instruments from the four families with word cues in a song. a. Writing Assignment: Students will measure time 3. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Students will say an ostinato while listening to a song in time. a. Students will create a five senses chart. 4. Here Comes a Bluebird: Students will point to the word and icon that last two beats in a song and play sounds that last two beats on instruments. a. Students will make bird puzzels. Topic 5: Composers Lessons: 1. Bizet/ The Toreadors Song: Students will engage in story-making and sing and move to melodic themes. i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music made them feel 2. Tchaikovsky/Trepak: Students will engage in story-making and sing and move to melodic themes i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music made them feel 3. Rossini/William Tell Overture: Students will engage in storymaking and sing and move to melodic themes i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music made them feel 4. Mozart/The Magic Flute: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music made them feel