M02 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Standard 1: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.
Standard 2: Students will read and notate music.
Standard 3: Students will create music.
Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
Standard 5: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.
Skills
Watch the conductor (S1).
Sing, play, and move to music from different traditions and cultures (S1, S4, S5).
Listen and sing to American folk and patriotic songs (S1, S4, S5).
Respond verbally to musical contrasts (S4).
- Steady beat.
- Movement songs, simple dances.
- Star-Spangled Banner.
- Melody up and down.
- Everyday sounds around us.
- Back to school songs.
Assessment
Students sing songs with strong steady beats, play the beat on various instruments, use body percussion, move to the beat.
Learn the history of the SSB, as well as better understand the words.
Assess by: teacher observation, daily work, SSB booklet.
Resources
Classroom instruments- maracas, rhythm sticks.
The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner book.
Create pictures to go with the words of the SSB.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
- Introduction and coda.
- Identify instruments.
- Halloween/spooky songs.
Standard 1: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.
Standard 2: Students will read and notate music.
Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
Skills
Watch the conductor (S1).
Describe the feelings experienced when listening to a musical selection and explain the musical elements which support those feelings (S4)
Match the sound of instruments, played alone or with simple accompaniments, with the picture of the instrument and the name and family of the instrument (S4).
Identify instruments in a listening example (S4).
Assessment
Students discover the difference between the beginning and the end of the songs.
Listening to various selections and identifying instruments by sound and sight.
Resources
Microsoft Instruments CD.
Seasonal Favorites V. 1.
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
- Style- comparing music.
- Verse and refrain.
- Ostinato.
- Long vs. short sounds.
- Dynamics- loud/soft.
- American composers- listening and history.
- Thanksgiving/fall songs.
Standard 1: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.
Standard 2: Students will read and notate music.
Standard 3: Students will create music.
Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
Standard 5: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.
Skills
Sing and play instruments with acceptable tone quality and proper posture, songs in an age-appropriate range (S1).
Watch the conductor (S1).
Read and perform rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, and half rests (S1, S2, S4).
Echo rhythm and melodic patterns (S1, S4).
Sing, play, and move to music from different traditions and cultures (S1, S4, S5).
Respond verbally to musical contrasts (S4).
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior (S5).
Describe the feelings experienced when listening to a musical selection and explain the musical elements which support those feelings (S4)*
Match the sound of instruments, played alone or with simple accompaniments, with the picture of the instrument and the name and family of the instrument (S4)*.
Identify instruments in a listening example (S4)*.
Demonstrate the ability to listen for specific musical ideas in a listening example (S4)*.
Listen and sing to American folk and patriotic songs (S1, S4, S5)*.
Assessment
Students listen to a song in folk and rock styles, discussing the differences.
Difference between verse and refrain.
Playing or singing an ostinato.
Difference between long and short sounds.
Difference between loud and soft sounds.
Resources
Colorado Symphony concert.
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
- Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky.
- Ballet and its history.
- Christmas/winter songs.
Standard 1: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.
Standard 2: Students will read and notate music.
Standard 3: Students will create music.
Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
Standard 5: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.
Skills
Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky. Ballet and its history. Christmas/winter songs.
Standard 1: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others. Standard 2: Students will read and notate music. Standard 3: Students will create music. Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music. Standard 5: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.
Assessment
Sing and play instruments with acceptable tone quality and proper posture, songs in an age-appropriate range (S1).
Watch the conductor (S1).
Sing, play, and move to music from different traditions and cultures (S1, S4, S5).
Respond verbally to musical contrasts (S4).
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior (S5).
Describe the feelings experienced when listening to a musical selection and explain the musical elements which support those feelings (S4)*
Match the sound of instruments, played alone or with simple accompaniments, with the picture of the instrument and the name and family of the instrument (S4)*.
Identify instruments in a listening example (S4)*.
Demonstrate the ability to listen for specific musical ideas in a listening example (S4)*.
Resources
Listening to music from the Nutcracker with listening maps.
Discussing what ballet is and how it came to be a musical form.
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Program songs
Skills
Students learn new songs for their program.
Correct notes and words.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Program songs.
Skills
Practicing correct words.
Adding actions/movement.
Putting a program together.
Public performance of the program
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Solo and chorus.
Melody up and down- review.
Step, leap, and repeat.
Dynamics- review.
Fast and slow tempo.
St. Patrick's songs.
Skills
Analyzing music to determine solo or chorus,
melody up or melody down,
how the melody moves (step, leap, repeat),
dynamics,
tempo
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Carnival of the Animals.
Animal movement songs.
Skills
Listening to the suite with maps,
free drawing,
finish the picture,
creative movement for each animal.
Also, reading about the ways that the music is made to sound like each animal.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Skills
Students learn about the art form of opera and the theater- what happens backstage.
Students learn two songs from Hansel and Gretel.
Students use pictures to tell the story.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
