Diana Fox-Vocal Music

Year Overview- Second

Topic 1: Steady Beat/Rhythm
Lessons:
1. Say Your Name: Students will pat to determine if music and a
poem have steady beat or no steady beat and pat with the beat
to develop skill in keeping a beat..
a. Writing assignment: Students will create a word web that
describes them.
2. If you Need a Buddy: Students will clap the rhythm of the words
to a steady beat and read notation for one and two sounds to a
beat
a. Students will write a short story.
3. Jambo: Students will demonstrate the ability to change from
patting with the steady beat to clapping the rhythm of the words
a. Writing assignment: Students will create animals using
thumb prints and write about them
4. Obo Asi Me Nsa: Students will identify rests in a song by
gesturing to show beats on which there is silence and perform a
four-beat rhythm pattern while listening.
a. Writing assignment: Students will create beat boxes.
Topic 2: Pitch
Lessons:
1. Kye Kye Kule: Students will chose to speak or sing a line from a
song.
a. Writing Assignment: Students will write about the different
voices.
2. Here We Sit: Students will raise and lower hands to show higher
and lower pitches
a. Writing Assignment: Students will write or draw about
items they see before and after on a tray.
3. I Have A Car Part One: Students will move to show the shape of
a melody
a. Writing Assignment: Children will label car parts on
pictures they draw.
4. I Have a Car Part Two: Students will read notation for Mi, So, &
La.
a. Writing Assignment: Students will write and sing their own
Mi, So, & La melodies.
Topic 3: Movement/Listening Skills
1. The Thing That Isnt There: Students will sing a song
expressively and accompany a poem with unpitched instruments
a. Students will use known rhythms to write words to an
introduction and coda
2. In The Hall of the Mountain King/Pick a Pumpkin: Students will
move to fit the mood of the music and dramatize a song
a. Writing Assignment: Students will list characteristics of a
pumpkin
3. Rocky Mountain: Students will perform a folk dance

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a. Writing Assignment: Students will create and write out
directions for a dance
4. Martin Luther King: Students will identify phrase structure and
play an accompaniment using half notes.
a. Writing Assignment: Students will write new verses for
Martin Luther King using the same phrase structure.
Topic 5: Tone Color/Meter/Dynamics
Lessons:
1. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt: Students will sing a song
following dynamic indications of forte and piano and signal to
show aural recognition of forte and piano.
a. Students will write a radio script that incorporates loud
and soft sounds.
2. A Sailor Went to Sea: Students will point to the picture of each
family of unpitched instruments as it is hear and play unpitched
instruments from the four families with word cues in a song.
a. Writing Assignment: Students will measure time
3. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Students will say an ostinato
while listening to a song in time.
a. Students will create a five senses chart.
4. Here Comes a Bluebird: Students will point to the word and icon
that last two beats in a song and play sounds that last two beats
on instruments.
a. Students will make bird puzzels.
Topic 5: Composers
Lessons:
1. Bizet/ The Toreadors Song: Students will engage in story-making
and sing and move to melodic themes.
i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and
describe how the music made them feel
2. Tchaikovsky/Trepak: Students will engage in story-making and
sing and move to melodic themes
i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and
describe how the music made them feel
3. Rossini/William Tell Overture: Students will engage in storymaking and sing and move to melodic themes
i. Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and
describe how the music made them feel
4. Mozart/The Magic Flute: Students will illustrate a picture and
describe how the music made them feel

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