2nd Period, 5th grade, 02/01/2019

Objectives

1. Students will review note values by using movement and counting out loud with tracks.
2. Students will practice rhythm reading fluency through call and response as well as
material in their books.
3. Students will prepare for upcoming playing quizzes, and have the opportunity to take
these quizzes in class.

Standards Addressed

EI.1 The student will echo, read, and notate music, including
1. identifying, defining, and using basic standard notation for pitch, rhythm, meter,
articulation, dynamics, and other elements of music; and
2. singing selected lines from music being studied.

EI.2 The student will echo, read, and perform simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns,
including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted half notes, dotted
quarter notes, and corresponding rests.

EI.15 The student will perform simple rhythmic and melodic examples in
call-and-response styles.

Procedures

1. Students will come in, get set up, and begin their smart warm ups (4 minutes)
2. The class will play “Walker Rhythm Warm Up” (3 minutes)
3. Students will pick some way to physically move to a simple beat of a metronome or
equivalent. (1 minute)
4. Students will move to a background track and will engage in a brief discussion on what
note value(s) they are moving to. As a class, students will then practice moving to whole
notes, halves, quarters, and eighths. At this time, students will also be encouraged to
say the counts out loud. (5 minutes)
5. Students will then engage in call and response (with backing tracks) (10 minutes)
a. Students will listen to the teacher’s one note rhythm, and copy in response
b. Individual students will be invited to add their own rhythm for the class to copy
6. Students will determine which songs in the book they are all currently preparing for their
upcoming tests and work through them as a class (10 minutes)
a. The class will run through the rhythms in these songs with movement
b. Students will be able to take their individual tests in class (playing or counting)
7. The class will engage in a brief discussion about the Tuesday band concert. (5 minutes)
8. Students will disassemble, swab, pack and get ready to go to their next class (4 minutes)
Assessment

1. Students will be informally assessed on participation in all activities

2. Students will be formally assessed on tone, notes, rhythms, and playing posture when
taking their playing tests in class, and will be assigned a letter grade.

Materials
- Baby Shark (G) ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go0lh4HDtc8
- How Far I’ll Go (E): ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
- Cardi B (F): ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxzmkLXPDY
- Eastside (A): ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YzwBZuv2s
- Backing track in D ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0-h_SI-qmI