- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Values PreAsessment
- Mallets and Play Rhythms on the Xylophones or Classroom Instruments - "This is a Quarter Note, we say Tah - Tah, Tah, Tah, Tah." Repeat with other rhythms
Lesson 2 -
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Quick Review Rhythms and Note Names
- Quintet Music Dice Game
Lesson 3 -
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms
- Quiz, Quiz Trade - double circle with note cards. Quiz a partner, trade cards and rotate to a new partner.
- Perform the notes on classroom instrument
- Poison Rhythm
- Exit: I'm thinking of a note that.....what is the name?
Lesson 4 -
- Question of the Day - Name the Note; How Many Beats
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms
- Discuss / Anchor Chart Terms
- Time Signature, Bar Lines, Measure, Double Bar Lines
- Team Discovery
- Provide copies of sheet music from several known songs - I used 4
- Cover the time signature
- As a team, students discover answers to teacher created questions such as:
- how many quarter notes?
- how many quarter rests?
- what is the missing time signature?
- how many bar lines.
- Discuss answers the next day
Lesson 5 -
- Question of the Day - Name the Note. How many beats?
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Review terms from lesson 5
- Student Choice - Select a student to pick a song from Lesson 4's Team Discovery
- As a class, review the questions for that song
- Perform the song / activity / game
- Add a 2 measure coda to the end - solicit student input on rhythms to use
- Rhythm Jeopardy -
- Divide into teams
- Teacher draws a note
- Students earn points by answering correctly - verbally or write on a marker board to answer
- Exit Question: I'm thinking of a note or Buzz (give rhythm cards to a student, they show the card and call on a classmate to tell the name of the note).
Lesson 6 - TO BE COMPLETED SOON
- Question of the Day - Name the Note. How many beats?
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Focus on Names and Beats -
- Centers - Teacher Station, Match Rhythm and Number of Beats, Music Word Problems (2 Whole Notes were walking down the street with a quarter note. A whole note got got eaten by a Music Monster, how many beats were left? Draw a picture. Write the answer), Match rhythm and the Note Name, Card with Rhythm Name on Front and drawing on back - show front and draw on marker board - turn over card to check if correct, math flash cards)
Lesson 7 - TO BE COMPLETED SOON
- Question of the Day - Name the Note. How many beats?
- Warm Ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Review Names and Beats -
- Take the Post Assessment
Lesson 8 - TO BE COMPLETED SOON - Group Rhythm Composition
- Question of the Day - Name the note. How many beats?
- Warm ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Review Names and Beats
- Review Musical Terms
- Create Group Music to go with Popular Song - What will the fox say?
- Perform with Popular Song as the background.
- Perform songs from Discovery Packet
Lesson 9 - TO BE COMPLETED SOON - Individual Rhythm Composition
Lesson 10 - TO BE COMPLETED SOON - Introduce New Rhythms - TaTayFeh and Syncopation
- Question of the Day - Name the note. How many beats?
- Warm ups
- Staff Wars
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Review Names and Beats
- Perform a few Individual Student Compositions
- Sing songs from new rhythms
