Fourth Grade

Current Activities and Objectives:
Recorders - play with gentle tone, accurate rhythm and pitches

Past Activities and Objectives:
Identify note name pitches (ABCDEFG) on the five-line treble-clef staff
music from China - describe music you hear, perform creative movement, identify Dizi and Erhu, tell facts about China
Frame Drums - play frame drums with proper technique
Rhythm Reading - read rhythms with 1 eighth note and 2 sixteenth to a steady beat
Dot Composition - compose and perform a rhythm with quarter notes eighth notes, and sixteenth notes
4 Expectations Rhythms - perform rhythm ostinati together in a group
How Do You Do-Tee? - perform movements at appropriate times; echo rhythm patterns; define and identify chant, phrase, rest

Terms to know:
phrase - musical sentence (may or may not have lyrics)
compose - to write music
improvise - make up your own that fits