M03 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
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).
Create a short composition that shows contrasts in tempo, dynamics, or timbre (S3).
Describe the feelings experienced when listening to a musical selection and explain the musical elements which support those feelings (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)*.
Steady beat.
Steady beat vs. silent beat.
Rap verse- create their own.
Listening skills.
Back to school songs.
Star-Spangled Banner.
Assessment
Review steady beat, what is silent beat (it keeps going).
Students create their own rap verse in small groups.
Listening to various selections of music.
Learn the history of the SSB, as well as better understand the words.
Assess: teacher observations, daily work, SSB booklet, listening logs.
Resources
The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner book.
SB book/CD series.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Rhythm in sets of 2 or 3.
Beats in meter of 2 or 3.
Note values - quarter, half, whole, eighth.
Colorado History songs - 3A, 3B, 3F.
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 3: Students will create music.
- Standard 4: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
Skills
Sing and play instruments with acceptable tone quality and proper posture, songs in an age-appropriate range (S1).
Watch the conductor (S1).
Read, notate, and perform rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests, whole notes, and whole rests (S1, S2).
Demonstrate the ability to follow and perform a notated rhythmic pattern (S1, S2).
Listen and sing to Colorado history songs (S1, S5)*.
Identify musical symbols (S2).
Assessment
Students find rhythm in sets of 2 or 3, then discover meter in 2 or 3.
Students are introduced to what basic notes look like and redraw them.
Resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Note types identification.
Melody up and down.
Step, leap, repeat.
Harmony and partner songs.
Thanksgiving/fall songs.
Colorado History 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).
Sing and play a melodic ostinato (S1).
Watch the conductor (S1).
Read, notate, and perform rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests, whole notes, and whole rests (S1, S2).
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)*.
Listen and sing to Colorado history songs (S1, S5)*.
Identify musical symbols (S2).
Assessment
Students will learn the names of notes and rests.
Students review melody up and down, then discover how it moves (step, leap, repeat).
Students learn about harmony and partner songs- two parts.
Resources
Symbol Lotto.
Memory Match.
Colorado History songbook.
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Ostinato and round.
Christmas/winter songs.
Identify note types.
Colorado History 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).
Sing and play a melodic ostinato (S1).
Watch the conductor (S1).
Play two-chord songs on chording instruments as accompaniments to classroom singing (S1).
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior (S5)*.
Read, notate, and perform rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests, whole notes, and whole rests (S1, S2).
Sing, play, and move to music from different traditions and cultures (S1, S4, S5).
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)*.
Listen and sing to Colorado history songs (S1, S5)*.
Identify musical symbols (S2).
Assessment
Students learn about ostinato - play or sing.
Structure of a round.
Resources
Colorado History songbook.
More Symbol Lotto
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Symbol Lotto.
Colorado History songs.
Skills
Students sing about CO history and do small group activities while learning about note types and symbols.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Composers: Mozart/Magic Flute.
Colorado History songs.
Skills
Students sing about CO history and learn about Mozart.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Program songs.
Skills
Begin learning new songs.
Correct notes and words.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Program songs.
Skills
Memorizing the words.
Adding actions.
Putting the program together.
Public performance.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Composers:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Skills
Listening to selections either with or without listening maps.
Discussing the instruments used, what the music made them feel, what's the story of the music.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
