Students in grades 1-5 have music for one forty-minute
period each week. While in music,
students participate in movement activities, learn patriotic songs, and play
percussion instruments during music class.
Lessons are planned to address the national and NH state frameworks, and
to incorporate seasonal activities. For
example, songs at the beginning of the school year may be about returning to
school, apple picking, or other fall activities.
All students in grades 1-5 also have the opportunity
to perform in the school
Readiness & First Grade
·
Songs: 4 Seasons, Month Songs, Tony Chestnut, Copy
Cat, Raking Leaves, Ev’rybody Says, Very Fine Turkey etc.
Second Grade
·
Songs: Month Songs, Raking Leaves, Dr. Seuss We
Love You, Lone Star Trail, Five Fat Turkeys, Martin Luther King Chant, etc.
Third Grade
·
Songs: Canoe Song, The Tiny Boat, Land of the
Silver Birch, Four White Horses, Mail Myself To You, etc.
·
Learn about the
instrument families through the use of videos, pictures, and “The Four Corners”
game
Fourth Grade
·
Songs: October Rocktober, Turkey Shoot, You’ve Got
a Friend in Me, Autumn Leaves etc.
·
Mussorgsky & Night
On Bald Mountain
·
Aaron Copland & His
Use of American Folk Songs
·
Rhythms/Rockin’ Body
Rhythms
·
Recorder
Fifth Grade
·
Songs: Yankee Doodle, You’ve Got a Friend in Me, I
Got Rhythm, October Rocktober
·
Note Naming: Treble & Bass Clef
·
Rhythms/Rockin’ Body
Rhythms
·
George Gershwin
·
Review Instrument
Families
· The Banshee (Henry Cowell)