DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

Application of Steady Beat

Application of 4 voices (singing, whispering, calling, talking)

Pitch matching: "mi", "so", "la" games and movement activities

Concepts: loud vs. soft, high vs. low, loud vs. soft, shapes, sounc needs "vibration"

Explore with rhythm instruments

Unit on Traveling songs

Valentine's day and President's day observance

DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

listen/ apply learned rhythms

Pitch matching / "so", "mi" / identify high and low sounds / prepare and introduce "la"

Apply: Staff, line note, space note and placement on the staff

long (quarter - "ta") note and short (eighth- "ti-ti") notes and quarter rest

Valentine's day and President's day observance

DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

Written work: "mi", "so", "la", "re", "do" and appliction on xylophones /staff

Songs in Japanese, African and Spanish along with movement activities

Rhythms: Quarter note, eighth notes, quarter rest, half note, dotted half note, feeling in "3" and "4"

Informal assessments: listening, written, observation

Terms: piano-soft, forte-loud, hold sign, repeat sign, tie, accent

Valentine's day and President's day observance

DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

Rhythm: Identify and apply notes (whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth)

Concepts: bar line placement, application of melodic direction, moveable "do", Low "so" and "la", ledger line

Japanese Haikus (write, set to Japanese 5 tone scale, and perform)

Verse/ Refrain form

Individual assessments on concepts learned

Valentine's day and President's day observance

Begin Unit on Folk Music

DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

Melody Unit: (absolute names of pitches on the treble staff, key signatures, placement of pitches on the staff, half steps, whole steps, performance on xylophones)

President's day observance

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DATE

Virtue of the month: Leadership

Melody unit: ( self-paced unit)

Melody unit written assessment

President's day observance