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MUSIC WITH MRS. STARCHER
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
-Anatole France |
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Life Without Music would be a Mistake! -Friedrich Nietzche
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We love to sing! |
Starting a Strong Foundation in Kindergarten....
Kindergarten Objectives:
• Identifies sounds of classroom instruments
• Recognizes aurally repeated words and phrases in song texts
• Participates in group singing of rote songs
• Demonstrates awareness of steady beat through movement, and by playing an instrument
• Creates simple accompaniments using body percussion or classroom instruments
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations
• Moves creatively to music
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We've got rhythm! |
Keeping it Steady in First Grade
First Grade Objectives:
• Identifies sounds of percussive, harmonic, and melodic classroom instruments
• Identifies and names contrasts in music: long-short, beat-no beat, fast-slow, high-low
• Participates in group singing of rote songs
• Demonstrates awareness of steady beat through playing an instrument
• Plays simple one-chord accompaniments on classroom instruments
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations
• Moves creatively to music
• Identifies pre-notation symbols such as line and stick notation
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We love keeping the steady beat while we move around the music room!! |
Second Graders marching to a different beat in music!
Second Grade Objectives:
• Recognizes sounds of folk, orchestral, and classroom instruments
• Identifies and names contrasts in music, including stepping-leaping melodies, meters in twos and threes
• Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections, and simple formal structures—AB and ABA
• Performs the steady beat, accented beat, and melodic rhythmic patterns in familiar songs
• Plays one and two-chord accompaniments on classroom instruments
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations
• Moves creatively to music
• Creates simple compositions using body percussion, environmental, and classroom instrument sounds
• Identifies basic elements of music: dynamics, melodic direction, rhythmic patterns, tempo, simple meter, movement by step and leap
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Playing recorders is a lot of fun but can be hard work too!! |
Third Graders start learning to play the recorders!!
Third Grade Objectives:
• Distinguishes among string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and electronic instrumental families by sight and sound
• Plays melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments to accompany familiar songs
• Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections, and simple formal structures—AB and ABA
• Plays one and two-chord accompaniments on classroom instruments
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations, and simple folk dances
• Creates simple pentatonic improvisations on melodic instruments
• Explains and follows text for multiple-stanza songs
• Begins to recognize musical symbols and their function
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We know it is important to appreciate all different types of music! |
Fourth Graders look at music all around the world!
Fourth Grade Objectives:
• Distinguishes between the sounds of bands and orchestras
• Plays melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments to accompany familiar, folk, and ethnic music
• Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections, and simple formal structures—AB and ABA, AABA, and ABACA
• Sings in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs, simple ostinato, and descants
• Creates improvised accompaniments on melodic instruments to pentatonic songs
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations, and simple folk dances
• Demonstrates interest in composers and performers by reading and reporting to class
• Explains and follows text for multiple-stanza songs
• Recognizes and names frequently used musical symbols such as treble clef, notes, rests, and meter signatures
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Writing music can be hard work! |
Fifth Graders add all of their music to study composers through time!
Fifth Grade Objectives:
• Identifies a variety of instruments—folk, ethnic, acoustic, and electric
• Performs accompaniments from simple notation using classroom melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments
• Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections, and simple formal structures—AB and ABA, AABA, ABACA, theme and variations
• Sings in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs, simple ostinato, and descants
• Creates improvised accompaniments on melodic instruments to pentatonic songs
• Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations, and simple folk dances
• Demonstrates interest in composers and performers by reading and reporting to class
• Discriminates between simple and compound meters: 2s, 3s, 4s, and 6s
• Compares music of an era or a nation with other art forms of that era or nation
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