First Grade

Current Activities and Objectives:
Shake Those Simmons Down - improvise movement and move musically
John the Rabbit - sing a response
Firefly - vocally improvise lyrics and a melody
Body percussion - perform body percussion in time with the music

Past Activities and Objectives:
You Will Never Find Me - identify dynamics piano/soft and forte/loud
The Water is Wide - sing an echo song
Momma Caught a Flea - identify, chant and notate quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter rest
Sing About Martin - match pitch when singing, sing a solo, identify and echo song
Singing Island - identify high and low sounds, improvise a conversation using a singing voice
10 Little Angels - play woodblocks, spoons, maracas, tambourines, castanets, and boomwhackers
Shoo Turkey - sing a call and response song, play rhythm sticks, spoons, frame drums, guiros, boomwhackers and bells
Brown Bear - match pitch while singing a solo
One Little Spider - move within a phrase, echo minor tonal patterns
Halloween - identify a phrase's contour, play unpitched percussion
Trick or Treat - sing a solo in call and response form
Do As I'm Doing - play rhythm sticks, tap a steady beat, echo rhythm patterns, follow a conductor
xylophones - identify high and low ends, play with correct mallet hold, and at appropriate times within a story
Bubble Gum - tap a steady beat, create shapes
Five Little Muffins - differentiate between singing, speaking, whispering, and calling voices
Hop Old Squirrel- maintain a steady beat, improvise new lyrics, play the bass bar
Name Riddle - pat the beat and improvise a movement