SMOKY ROW ELEMENTARY MUSIC ROOM

CURRICULUM

Big Ideas

Learning Targets

•   Perform music by singing and playing instruments

•   Create music by improvising and composing

•   respond to music by listening, evaluating and understanding how it connects to other areas of life

• Students will singa variety of classic folk songs that will encourage pitch matching.

• Students will play the steady beat on an unpitched instrument.

• Students will play simple melodic patterns on a pitched instrument.

• With guidance and support from the teacher, students will recall information from a song's lyrics.

Music Vocabulary

Rhythm

rhythm

beat vs. rhythm

quarter note

quarter rest

2 eighth notes

3 eighth notes

dotted quarter note

dotted quarter rest

Instruments

Movement

Form

Melody

Theory

pattern

solfege

sol - mi

la -sol - mi

call and response

introduction

AB form

ABA form

staff

line/space notes

repeat

dynamics

forte

piano

percussion

xylophone

bordun

recorder

forward/backward

energy

beat vs. no beat

pathways

left/right