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| Pre-K Music meets once a week in the music room. Currently we are singing and moving to songs that deal with the weather -- wind, rain and sun. Finding ways to keep a steady beat with our bodies or percussion instruments give us opportunities to move! |
| Kindergarten meets for music class twice a week, Wednesday and Thursday. Goals for Kindergarten are to move to a steady beat, play it with percussion instruments, and be able to identify steady beats by listening to music. Finding a singing voice is another major goal for primary age students. Currently Kindergarten is practicing songs for their Christmas presentation Dec. 10, 7:00 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. |
| First Grade continues what was begun in Kindergarten -- learning to find a singing voice and match pitch, not only keep and recognize a steady beat but to read basic rhythms using quarter notes and eighth notes, play hand drums, triangles and finger cymbals, and scraper instruments. Bar instruments are special additions on some singing games. |
| Second Grade builds upon the basics learned in Kindergarten and First Grade -- keeping and recognizing steady beat, matching pitch while singing, reading basic rhythms and playing beginning patterns on bar instruments and other percussion instruments. This class sings a lot with their classroom teachers as well, so they are able to do some nice singing for special music in Chapel. They sang a special Thanksgiving song the end of November. They also begin to read notes on the music staff, sol, mi, do and la are the current pitches we are working with. |
| Third Grade transitions into the recorder to prepare for playing instruments in Strings and Band as Fourth Graders. They begin to identify, read and write notes on the treble staff, both rhythms and pitches. We use a recorder method called "Recorder Karate". Students receive a karate "belt" -- colored embroider floss -- to tie on their recorder cases when they pass a new song for each level. |
| Fourth Grade students at Concordia choose between strings and band for the entire year. |
| Fifth Grade General Music Class is designed for students who do not want to continue Band or Strings after their initial year of exploration as fourth graders. Fifth grade music does units centered around various themes -- Elements of Music, Science of Sound, Music of the Colonial Era, Music of the Oregon Trail Era, Jazz, Music of Australia, a Drumming Unit. Some years students are interested in doing more folk dancing, playing more advanced recorder pieces or singing more often for Chapel special music. |