Schedule
Music class is located in the downstairs music room at Corinth..
- Corinth Mondays
- 11:45 K-5
- 12:45 1st
- 11:45 2nd
- Corinth Wednesdays
- 10:30 3rd
- 19:30 4th
- Souls Harbor
Wednesdays
- 12:45 5th
- 11:50 6th-7th
K-5 Lesson Plans
The students in K-5 are learning the importance of a strong beat, through a ball game. We form a circle and verbally count a steady 4 beats together. I then throw the ball to each child and they in turn throw it back to me, while we continue the steady 4 beat count. This idea continues around the circle until completed. I often repeat the same idea in other forms. Even though a simple game, it proves to be very effective when it comes to transferring the idea to Flash Cards. Students then see their 4 beats changed into note form and they begin to read music. They then progress from one note to another kind of note and its relationship is explained. I then proceed to add the relative note rest. These given rhythms on Flash Cards are both verbalized and clapped by the students, perhaps for a couple of lessons and then rhythm sticks are used, since they have a clean cut sound. Errors are easily detectable! Following the use of rhythm sticks, we progress to un-pitched instruments of choice. Students love this part of any lesson!! I then place two or three Flash Cards together for them to play, with both notes and rests. I never under-estimate how much a 5 year old can learn. If they are keen….I push!
1st Grade Lesson Plans
1st Grade students are in the process of learning note names on the Treble Clef. They have learned a couple of rhymes to help them remember both line and space notes. Since they have learned note value, they are now in the process of combinng “reading and writing” with “creative and improvisation”. Given a Time Signature, they have to create a 6 – bar melody using the notes B, A, and G only, but with a combination of all “kinds” of notes learned. They then play their “composition” on xylophones, both as a class and individually, if they wish. Creating their own class compositions gives them a sense of accomplishment. To aid this type of lesson, we have also played Musical Mathematics, which is a fun game, where students are required to balance note values with numbers using the addition and subtraction signs.
Note From Mrs. Su: I know some of you have been asked to create your own musical instrument. I don’t suggest a huge project such as this, but someone shared it with me today and I thought it was really cool. Hope you enjoy these videos from http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/organ/organ.html
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