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1st grade Spring Music ShowcaseWednesday, April 20, 2011

“Music is a Treat”

It’s fun…..It’s exciting…..It’s educational!

We singWe listenWe moveWe playWe create

JOY

The Music Educators National Conference recognizes the month of March as “Music in our Schools Month”!

1st graders have music a total of 100 minutes over a two week period. This schedule continues through 4th grade.

A week= two 20 minutes classes B week = three 20 minutes classes

Our music curriculum is based on the National Standards for Education.

Beat & RhythmSteps to music literacy

Feel & Experience steady beat & rhythm patterns.

Listen & Imitate beats & patterns.

See what they look like.

READ, WRITE, & PLAY! Each student will compose their own songs at the end of the 3rd grade recorder unit.

We spend a lot of time listening to and matching the steady beat in music class.

Listen for our invisible kazoos when we change from keeping the beat to playing the rhythm.

Rhythm Patterns

Silence

The beat you feel but do not hear.

Tambourine Kid In this song students are playing a

rhythm pattern during part of the song.

The tambourine is a percussion instrument. Percussion instruments are hit, shook or scraped.

Dynamics

P (Piano) Soft

f (Forte) Loud

Crescendo

Decrescendo

Watch us play a repeated rhythm patternand a repeated melodic pattern using mallet instruments.

Mallet instruments help us get readyto learn keyboard instruments.

Willum

Meet some of our unusual percussion instruments.

Watch us play a walking steady beat where we alternate mallets.

We can also play a roll on one bar that is PIANO (soft).

Whacky Do Re Mi What do fish & music have in common?

Scales

We work hard at listening and matching pitch by imitating melodic patterns from the scale. We will begin the process of reading and writing pitches on the staff in 2nd grade.

Our hands also sing the pitches using special music hand signs called Curwin hand signs.

Curwin Hand Signs for the scale

Composer Corner An important part of learning music history.

Year A- We study Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Saint Saens, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Handel, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Robert & Clara Schumann.

Year B – We study Gershwin, Ives, Copland, Williams, Joplin, King, Sousa, Weber, Foster, Bernstein. This group was all born in America.

Mrs. B’s web page……….

www.homerschools.org Click on Goodings Grove School Click on Bordenaro on the left hand side. Find announcements, information on

music grading, expectations and links to recommended music sites.

Make an appointment & visit a class you are always welcome!

- First-grade students who had daily

music instruction scored higher on creativity tests than a control group without music instruction.- K.L. Wolff, The Effects of General Music Education on the Academic Achievement, Perceptual-Motor Development, Creative Thinking, and School Attendance of First-Grade Children, 1992.

Students who are rhythmically skilled also tend to better plan, sequence, and coordinate actions in their daily lives.- “Cassily Column,” TCAMS Professional Resource Center, 2000

Please visit the music classroom during curriculum night and/or when you come for parent conferences.

Let’s work together to make music an important part of your child’s Goodings Grove educational experience.

Music is a fun treat and a nutritional part of a well rounded education.

To Be continued…2nd grade

Music Makers around the World where we explore music makers from all over the globe.

Students continue on the path to music literacy learning music signs, symbols and notation.

Students continue to listen and learn about master composers and different styles of music.

Students perform at the end of the year with all of second grade at the annual “2nd Grade Spring Showcase”.

Ready to Learn Music students out-perform non-music students

on achievement tests in reading and math. Skills such as reading, anticipating, memory, listening, forecasting, recall, and concentration are developed in musical performance, and these skills are valuable to students in math, reading, and science.- B. Friedman, “An Evaluation of the Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic of Pupils in ElementarySchool Instrumental Music Classes,” Dissertation Abstracts International.

A ten-year study indicates that students who study music achieve higher test scores, regardless of socioeconomic background.- Dr. James Catterall, UCLA.