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Kindergarten - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Concepts: tuneful singing, loud and soft, beat, high and low voice, fast and slow, high and low melody, rhythm
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Performing
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Singing various folk songs, unaccompanied or accompanied by classroom instruments
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Playing classroom instruments to the steady beat, loud and soft, fast and slow
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Playing classroom instruments to contemporary songs
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Listening
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Various musical examples that demonstrate loud and soft, high and low, fast and slow
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Aural questioning about musical pieces or new songs taught in class
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Creating
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Creating movements to songs
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Improvising musical answers to musical questions
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Responding
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Answering questions about new songs taught
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Evaluating and identifying known concepts in various songs
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Connecting
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Counting
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Colors
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Letters
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List of Primary Texts:Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Supplementary Software: MusicPlay OnlineFirst Grade - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting
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Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes.
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Proper use of classroom instruments.
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Folk and simple songs in unison
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Listening
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Listening and responding to different pieces of music. Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume.
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Creating
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Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities
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Compositions and improvisation
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Responding
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Call and response singing and playing
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Echoing rhythms and songs
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Connecting
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Basic sound science
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Musical connections to culture and social studies
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List of Primary Texts:Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online
Second Grade - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting
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Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes, quarter rests and sixteenth notes.
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Proper use and technique for classroom instruments.
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Folk and simple songs in unison
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Listening
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Listening and responding to different pieces of music. Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume.
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Creating
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Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities
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Compositions and improvisation
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Movement to respond and correspond with musical sounds
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Responding
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Call and response singing and playing
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Echoing rhythms and songs
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Connecting
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Basic sound science
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Musical connections to culture and social studies
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Connections between modern pop music and music history. Similar concepts, instruments, and sounds and how they have changed.
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List of Primary Texts:Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online
Third Grade - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting
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Recorder unit using Recorder Karate
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Pitch identification (note names)
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Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1 and 2
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Introduction of whole note and whole rest
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Meter identification (duple and triple)
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List of Primary Texts:Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Recorder Karate – Plank Road Publishing
Supplementary Software: MusicPlay OnlineFourth Grade - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting
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Expansion of pentatonic scale to include low ‘so’, low ‘la’, ‘fa’, and high ‘do’
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Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-3
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Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation
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Ukulele unit
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Science of Sound unit
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List of Primary Texts:
Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online
Fifth Grade - General Music
List of Main Themes/Units
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Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.
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Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting
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Introduce ‘la’ pentatonic
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Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-4
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Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation
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Ukulele unit
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African World Drumming unit
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List of Primary Texts:
Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
Music and You – Silver Burdette MusicSupplementary Software: MusicPlay Online
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