Valentine's Day is in the air!

We're still focusing on our standards with a little twist of Valentine's celebration this week!

Kindergarten:
- Listening to "America the Beautiful"
- Creative movement to Saint-Saens "The Aviary" from The Carnival of the Animals using scarves
- Singing game with "Wild Birds"
- Valentine song and rhythm game: "I Hope I Get a Letter!"

1st Grade:
- Introduction to musical form using shapes
- Playing so-mi pitches on the glockenspiel to accompany "Valentine"
- Valentine song and rhythm game: "I Hope I Get a Letter!"
- Preparing "la" through the song "Lucy Locket"

2nd Grade:
- Playing mi-re-do on the barred Orff instruments to the song "It's Mi-Re-Do"
- Valentine song and dance: "Do You Love Me?"
- Identifying and classifying unpitched percussion instruments into categories: metals, woods, and skins
- Listening to and identifying "America the Beautiful" as a Patriotic song

3rd Grade:
- Learning and dancing the "Doudlebska Polka", a Folk dance from the former county of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic)
- Accompanying the song "Love Somebody" on barred Orff instruments and unpitched percussion instruments
- Introduction to low "la"
- Creative movement/exploration in response to the rhyme, "Letters and Shapes" (Students form different letters and shapes with their bodies as specified by the teacher.

4th Grade:
- Recorder- students learn and play a two measure melody for teacher (This helps me to assess student's understanding of music notation as they individually play for me)
- American folk song, "John Kanakanaka", with partner drum game.

5th Grade:
- Continuation of Recorder Karate
Several students have already passed off the Brown belt level of Recorder Karate, so next week 5th grade will have some Black Belt Stars! Students achieving the Black belt level will become peer teachers to help classmates with various levels of Recorder Karate.
Encourage your child to use the internet "Recorder Karate Dojo" on the Music K-8 web-site to practice. Students who are utilizing this resource at home are well-prepared for their "belt tests". A username and password for this resource were given to the students when Recorder Karate began in January. Please e-mail me if your child has misplaced the username and/or password, and I'll send it to you.