Category Archives: Grade Kinder

After-School Drumming Club Practiced cancelled January 29, 2019

After-School Drumming Club Practiced cancelled January 29, 2019

Hello!

 

After-school Drumming Club practice will be cancelled today, January 29 due to weather conditions.  Here is a message from the District:

 

Greetings,
Due to extremely cold temperatures and wind chills, all after school activities for Tuesday, January 29, 2019 are cancelled.  This includes all parent meetings, concerts, athletic competitions and practices.  Adult and Community Education classes will also be closed this evening (1/29/19).
Kids Club and All Day Pre-School will remain open until the normal ending hour of 6 p.m.
The District will make an announcement later today regarding the status of school on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.

Howe Kinder “It’s So Good To See You”

Howe Kinder “It’s So Good To See You”

Our Kindergarten students are learning to participate in an ensemble as they sing, play instruments, conduct and perform choreography.

November Objectives and Vocabulary Words

November Objectives and Vocabulary Words

Overview for November

Kindergarten
Match Pitch
Assess Pitch
One and Two Sounds to a Beat
Pre-Reading of Music Notation
Introduction of Quarter and Eighth Notes
Purposeful Movement
Introduction of Foriegn Language (Spanish)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Rhythmic Assessment
Listening
TI TI Ta (Eighth and quart notes) and one finger claps
Identify Softer and Louder (Dynamics)
Spider beats (Steady beat)
Beat and rhythm groups simultaneously
Song for days of the week
Ring around the Rosy song and game
Introduction to Meter 2/4 and 6/8
March vs. Swing
Poetry
Read and Perform Beats of Silence
Instrument Exploration Hands-on Experience (Woods/Metals/Shakers & Scrapers)

Grade 1
Concept: BEAT
Identify and perform Long and Short
Listening focus and game
One and Two sounds to a beat
Foreign Language (Song in French, song in Swahili)
Call and Response
Purposeful Movement (Sutdent demonstration)
Marching to a steady beat
Sway to the beat
Instrument Exploration Hands-on Experience (Woods/Metals/Shakers & Scrapers)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Write your own story and try it out in class with instrument performers

Grade 2
Reading Quarter/Eighth notes and Quarter Rests
Identify ABA Sections in Classical Music
Perform on instruments using iconic representation of Quarter Notes/Rests
Listening focus and game
Listening to classical music pieces
Sing in Rhythm and one Pitch
Subdivisions
Perform diverse styles
Foriegn Language (Song and Game in Spanish – Bate Bate)
Perform Sound Effects on cue in a Story
Write your own story and read in with student instrument performers
Instrument Families of the Orchestra
Listen to story told in Portugese Language
Dynamics
p = Piano (soft)
mf = Mezzo Forte (meduim loud)
f – Forte (loud)

Grade 3
Tournament practice – In class practice and races constructing measures of music
Cooperative pairings
Understanding Fractions in Music
Independent work
Sort and Check Routine
Assess Pitch
Live Feed: Detroit Symphony Orchestra “Musical Superheroes”

Grade 4
Reading/Performing Musical Notation (Lines and Spaces)
Recorder Method: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTHpKEqcm_UZvQRreeNduiXyO39b85Qin
Introduction to the recorder (fingerings, finger placement and coverage, hand placement, breath control, tone production, parts of the recorder)
Homework practice online
Students should practice as many as they can and advance as quickly as they can.
Perform exercises with and without a beat track

Vocabulary:
Brass
Percussion
Strings
Woodwinds
Conductor
Composer
Orchestra
Symphone
ABA Form
Melody
Dynamics
Long and Short
Loud and Soft
Sway
Skip
Dash
p = Piano (soft)
mf = Mezzo Forte (meduim loud)
f – Forte (loud)

Kindergarten learns circle game and song

Kindergarten learns circle game and song

Song lyrics:

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Ring around the rosies
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
All fall down

Vocabulary words: Ashes, posies(flowers)

Nursery Rhyme from the Annotated Mother Goose
Ring-a-ring-a-roses,
A pocket full of posies;
Hush! Hush! Hush! Hush!
We’ve all tumbled down.

Kindergarten learns to sing and play an octave!

Kindergarten learns to sing and play an octave!

Our Kindergarten classes are learning to sing and play an octave by singing amd playing the xylphone. Great job with high and low sounds!img_20160929_132500img_20160929_131805img_20160929_124252img_20160929_131901img_20160929_132137img_20160929_132327

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