Malcolm Price Laboratory School
Elementary General Music
Mrs. Michelle L. Swanson, Instructor

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Lesson plan outline for 5th Grade
2006-07


WEEK OF...

Tuesday - 1:00 p.m.

Thursday - 1:00 p.m.
August 21

NO SCHOOL - early dismissal
BEAT:
Bate, Bate - poem
Xylophone - review technique
Song:  Thankful for the U.S.A.

August 28

BEAT:
Bate, Bate - poem with chocolate passing game (steady beat)
TEMPO - vocabulary
Zip/Zap Game

BEAT:
Song:  Weevily Wheat   
- song, circle game, multiplication, BP    (Trinka 8)
Name Game
Xylophone Improvisation (PLS School rhythm)

September 4
BEAT:
Accelerando & Ritardando - definitions
- Cup Passing Game
- (steady, accel., rit.)

BEAT:
Body Percussion Rondo
(A section)

Review definitions -

STILL - Haydn
September 11
BEAT:
Body Percussion Rondo - review A, learn B section

QUIZ:
- 5th grade beat quiz

Discussion:
-
musical preview -
"Paint the Town December"

September 18


Song:
Preamble
Choir Songs:
- Paint the Town December

Journals:
- beat vocabulary

September 25
Unpitched Percussion Instruments

Choir Songs:
- Paint the Town December
- Nes Gadol Haya Sham

Choir Songs:
- Christmas in Any Language

RHYTHM:
Rhythm Score - BT 5-1
October 2
RHYTHM:
- Review (quarters, 8ths, half, whole, 16th, rests, sycopation)

- Review Worksheet - RY 5-2

- Rhythm dictation with cards
RHYTHM:
- Adding note values - RY 5-1

- Dotted Note Values (Mr. Note & Mr. Dot)

Choir Songs:
- Nes Gadol Haya Sham

October 9
Choir Songs:
- Nes Gadol Haya Sham
- Celebrate with Joy
RHYTHM:
Bama Lama - song with instruments (EXPL 252)

Rhythm review game
October 16
RHYTHM:

Bama Lama - song with instruments (EXPL 252)

NO SCHOOL

October 23
RHYTHM:
- :128 teacher

RHYTHM:
- review for 5th grade RY test

Choir Songs:
-
Light the Kinara for Kwanzaa
- Holiday Lights

October 30
METER:
5th grade rhythm test
METER:
Review - barlines, measure, double barlines
Time Signature - top number review
Choir Songs:
-
Holiday Lights
- One Candle

November 6
Choir Songs:
- Holiday Lights
- One Candle
METER:
Time Signature - NEW - bottom number
Worksheet - MR 5-3 - time signatures

November 13
STILL - Grieg
Choir Songs:
- One Candle
- Holiday Lights
Choir Songs:
- One Candle
- Dec. Nts., Dec. Lts - finale

November 20

   NO SCHOOL

   NO SCHOOL

November 27
Choir Songs:
- all musical run-through





December 4
Dress Rehearsal

CONCERT:  Thursday
December 5th- 7:00 p.m.
METER:
Worksheet - MR 5-4 and/or MR 5-2

VIDEO of 12/5 performance
December 11
METER:
Review for test

Choir Songs
- Be Our Guest

METER:
5th Grade Meter Test

STILL
- Tchaikovsky

January 1

NO SCHOOL - Christmas break
MELODY:
Review - staff, treble clef, bass clef, musical alphabet

Flash Cards


January 8
MELODY:
Worksheet - M 5-1, M 5-1.5

Choir Songs:
MELODY:
Intervals

Choir Songs:
-
January 15

   NO SCHOOL


MELODY:
Worksheet:  M 5-6
January 22
Musical Songs -
-



January 29
MELODY:

MELODY:

 
February 5
Choir Songs:
-
Choir Songs:

 

February 12
Musical Rehearsal
- all songs / lines / scenes

Musical Rehearsal
- all songs / lines / scenes

February 19
Musical Rehearsal
- all songs / lines / scenes
Musical Rehearsal
- all songs / lines / scenes

February 26

CONCERT:  10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, February 28th




 NO SCHOOL (conferences)

March 5 MELODY:
-
review notes on treble and bass staff
-
intervals - visial ID
- worksheet

VIDEO of  performance
MELODY:  (UNI :128 teach)
-
review intervals

-
intervals - drawing notes
- worksheet

March 12

   NO SCHOOL


   NO SCHOOL
March 19
MELODY: 
 - MUSIC Raps - intervals
- review measuring intervals




MELODY: 
- review measuring intervals
- QUIZ

 - MUSIC Raps - intervals

March 26
Concert Prep:
 WCFSO Youth Concert

- WOODWIND instruments
- composition:

- STRING instruments
- composition:

Concert Prep:
 WCFSO Youth Concert

- PERCUSSION instruments
- composition:

- BRASS instruments
- composition:
April 2
Concert Prep:
 WCFSO Youth Concert

- Orcestra Seating Chart
- Conductor

Review of all compositions for concert

* April 5th:  WCFSO concert field trip to GBPAC
Concert Reflections -
- written assignment
April 9
RECORDER I:
- blowing technique
- B,A,G, E and D
- fingerings

RECORDER II
April 16
RECORDER III:


RECORDER IV:
April 23

MELODY:
- sequences
- worksheet


April 30
Musical Unit:
  Music Man


Musical Unit:
  Music Man

May 7
Musical Unit:
  Music Man


Musical Unit:
  Music Man
May 14
Musical Unit:
  Music Man


Musical Unit:
  Music Man
May 21
Last day of music

NO SCHOOL - early dismissal