Music: K-5

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• Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

• Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

• • Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes. 

  • Proper use of classroom instruments. 

  • Folk and simple songs in unison 

• Listening 

• • Listening and responding to different pieces of music.  Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume. 

• Creating 

• • Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities 

  • Compositions and improvisation 

• Responding 

• • Call and response singing and playing  

  • Echoing rhythms and songs  

• Connecting 

• • Basic sound science  

  • Musical connections to culture and social studies 

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• Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

• Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

• • Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes, quarter rests and sixteenth notes. 

  • Proper use and technique for classroom instruments. 

  • Folk and simple songs in unison 

• Listening 

• • Listening and responding to different pieces of music.  Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume. 

• Creating 

• • Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities 

  • Compositions and improvisation 

  • Movement to respond and correspond with musical sounds 

• Responding 

• • Call and response singing and playing  

  • Echoing rhythms and songs  

• Connecting 

• • Basic sound science  

  • Musical connections to culture and social studies 

  • Connections between modern pop music and music history.  Similar concepts, instruments, and sounds and how they have changed. 

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• Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

• Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

• • Recorder unit using Recorder Karate 

  • Pitch identification (note names) 

  • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1 and 2 

• • • Introduction of whole note and whole rest 

• • Meter identification (duple and triple) 

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• Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

• Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

• • Expansion of pentatonic scale to include low ‘so’, low ‘la’, ‘fa’, and high ‘do’ 

  • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-3 

• • • Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation 

• • Ukulele unit 

  • Science of Sound unit 

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• Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

• Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

• • Introduce ‘la’ pentatonic 

  • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-4 

  • Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation 

  • Ukulele unit 

  • African World Drumming unit 

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Music and You – Silver Burdette Music