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The Year at a Glance -5th Grade
1st Quarter: Emphasis on Rhythm and Form
Diagnostic assessment
- Rhythm Reading: quarter, eighth, half and whole notes, quarter rests,
sixteenth notes, syncopation and triplets. Rhythm dictation and activities for
developing rhythmic memory and coordination.
- Experiences with steady beat and rhythm of the words
- Matching words to rhythms and rhythms to words
- Introduction to solfege
- Principles of musical form: same-different, call and response, ABA and
Rondo
- Our favorite instruments
- Adventures with music vocabulary
- Patriotic songs
- Literacy skills practice with recorders
2nd Quarter: Emphasis on Melody
- Music appreciation activity - student choice of composer or style of music
- Continued work with solfege
- Melodic direction, understanding high and low
- Instrumental work with homemade instruments, recorders or dulcimers as
appropriate
- Seasonal songs as appropriate
- Instruments of the Brass Family
- More adventures with music vocabulary
3rd Quarter: Emphasis on Music Literacy
- Part work - singing rounds, ostinato accompaniments
- Instruments of the String Family
- Composition with So, La, Mi, Re and Do
- More rhythm challenges
- Instrumental work with continued focus on music literacy skills
4th Quarter: Emphasis on Music Appreciation
- Identification of instruments by sight, sound and family classification
- Introduction to jazz
- Fun with Folk Dance
- Assessment
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