Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
How can we identify the expressive qualities of music through movement? Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
Students identify musical form through movement.
Students identify musical form through movement.
Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.