Week 1
This is a great Music and PE connection. Get a workout while beating some rhythmic patterns. If you have a ball like this and drum sticks at your house, GREAT! If not, use a pillow on a small table/ottoman and chopsticks/spoons/closed markers... I'm sure you can come up with something that works! ESGM4.RE.3 Move to a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others. b. Perform choreographed and non-choreographed movements.
Practice the notes we know on the recorder (B, A, G) with this song. After you complete the warm-up and learn the song, perform it for someone at your house. *Remember to take steps in learning a song like we do in the classroom. Make sure you can do the fingers correctly before you play! Also use gentle air and cover your holes all the way. Following these tips will save your parents' ears! ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. c. Perform simple major/minor melodic patterns with appropriate technique. d. Perform multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures.
Week 2
Review reading notes on the treble clef staff. Remember, your "hand staff" is a great tool to help you review! Play the "Note Name Game" (treble clef level) on the Classics For Kids website ESGM4.PR.3 Read and Notate music. b. Read and notate melodic patterns within a treble clef staff.
Practice the notes we know on the recorder (B, A, G) with another new song. After you complete the warm-up and learn the song, perform it for someone at your house. *Remember to take steps in learning a song like we do in the classroom. Make sure you can do the fingers correctly before you play! Also use gentle air and cover your holes all the way. Following these tips will save your parents' ears! ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. c. Perform simple major/minor melodic patterns with appropriate technique. d. Perform multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures.
Week 3
This is a great Music and PE connection. Get a workout while beating some rhythmic patterns. If you have a ball like this and drum sticks at your house, GREAT! If not, use a pillow on a small table/ottoman and chopsticks/spoons/closed markers... I'm sure you can come up with something that works! ESGM4.RE.3 Move to a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others. b. Perform choreographed and non-choreographed movements.
Practice the notes we know on the recorder (B, A, G) with this song. After you complete the warm-up and learn the song, post it on the Tritt Recorder FlipGrid. https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
I bet this one will remind you of the Hot Cross Buns March variation. Do you know why? It's in 3/4 time! *Remember to take steps in learning a song like we do in the classroom. Make sure you can do the fingers correctly before you play! Also use gentle air and cover your holes all the way. Following these tips will save your parents' ears! ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. c. Perform simple major/minor melodic patterns with appropriate technique. d. Perform multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures.
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FlipGrid
I now have a FlipGrid for you to share your recorder performances. You'll need to login with your school email to access the FlipGrid. Have fun sharing!!! https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
Week 4
I know many of you are busy making your instruments at home for your sound unit in Science class. I'm so happy that you'll be making lots of music already and I look forward to seeing/hearing them! For music class, we'll take it easy and use this week to review any of the songs we've done on the recorder so far. Pick your favorite one and perform it on Flipgrid for us to hear! You'll need to login with your school email to access the FlipGrid. Have fun sharing!!! https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
Week 5
My friends, Ms. Boland (Shallowford Falls Elementary) and Mr. Homer (Argyle Elementary) have been working together to plan lessons for our students. Here is Mr. Homer with a dynamics and rhythm lesson for you. You'll need something from your home that you can use as a drum. (Ex. Cardboard box, bucket or plastic tub.) ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. a. Perform rhythmic patterns with body percussion and a variety of instruments using appropriate technique. ESGM4.RE.1 Listen to, analyze, and describe music. b. Describe music using appropriate vocabulary (e.g. fortissimo/pianissimo)
This is mostly a BAG song, but it includes a new note- High D. After you complete the warm-up and learn the song, post it on the Tritt Recorder FlipGrid. https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
This one has a new note (high D). You can play this note like B, but take your thumb off the back hole. You may choose to play this new note when you get to it or just stay on B for that part. *Remember to take steps in learning a song like we do in the classroom. Make sure you can do the fingers correctly before you play! Also use gentle air and cover your holes all the way. Following these tips will save your parents' ears! ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. c. Perform simple major/minor melodic patterns with appropriate technique. d. Perform multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures.
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FlipGrid
I now have a FlipGrid for you to share your recorder performances. You'll need to login with your school email to access the FlipGrid. Have fun sharing!!! https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
Week 6
Play a Rhythm Kahoot! made by Mr. Homer. Please use your real first name and last initial. I want to know who you are! Have fun! :) ESGM4.PR.3 Read and Notate music. a. Read, notate, and identify, in various meters, iconic or standard notation (e.g. quarter notes, quarter rests, barred eighth notes, half notes, half rests, dotted half notes, barred sixteenth notes, whole notes, whole rests).
Go to Music Play Online and learn about the Instruments of the Orchestra. This link will take you to a unit about the instruments. Click on the picture that looks like the one I have here. You are welcome to do more than this activity, if you want. ESGM4.RE.1 Listen to, analyze, and describe music. c. Identify and classify (e.g. families, ensembles) classroom, orchestral, American folk, and world instruments by sight and sound. d. Aurally distinguish between various ensembles.
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FlipGrid
Remember, you can still record yourself playing a recorder song you know! Have fun sharing!!! https://flipgrid.com/trittrecorder
Week 7
Learn a Body Percussion piece. ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. a. Perform rhythmic patterns with body percussion and a variety of instruments using appropriate technique.
Hot Cross Buns and Variations Review
I've noticed some mistakes in the videos some of you have sent so I wanted to make a review for you. This way you can refresh your memory and play all of these correctly. Post your favorite (or all of them) on the Tritt Recorder FlipGrid.
*Use gentle air and cover your holes all the way. Following these tips will save your parents' ears! ESGM4.PR.2 Perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others. c. Perform simple major/minor melodic patterns with appropriate technique. d. Perform multiple songs representing various genres, tonalities, meters, and cultures.
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May the 4th Be With You! I thought this might be a fun and timely way to see and hear some instruments. You can use your cursor to see around the orchestra. ESGM4.RE.1 Listen to, analyze, and describe music. c. Identify and classify (e.g. families, ensembles) classroom, orchestral, American folk, and world instruments by sight and sound. d. Aurally distinguish between various ensembles.
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Week 8
Play What Instrument Is This? made by Mr. Homer at Argyle Elementary School. (We've been working together on these lessons for you!) Please use your real first name and last initial. I want to know who you are! Have fun! :) ESGM4.RE.1 Listen to, analyze, and describe music. c. Identify and classify (e.g. families, ensembles) classroom, orchestral, American folk, and world instruments by sight and sound.
"What a Wonderful World" Listen to me sing this well-known classic song and enjoy the pictures in the book. If you know it, sing along! ESGM4.PR.1 Sing a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others. a. Sing accompanied and unaccompanied melodies within an appropriate range using head voice. c. Sing multiple songs representing various genres.
Feel free to go back and review or catch up on any of the songs or activities! Load a recorder song onto my FlipGrid. I'd love to see you play! I look forward to seeing you all again and making music with you in person!!! - Mrs. Yunek