Recorder Karate!
Students in fifth grade will be learning the recorder this year. Students will be provided with these recorders in class, for at-home practice, and for performances. If your student already owns a recorder, it would be alright for them to bring it to music on our practice days.
Recorder Karate is from Plank Road Publishing and is a highly motivational method for young players. This is a classroom-tested, carefully planned recorder method. At the heart of this method is a positive reward system in which students receive colored "karate belts" to hang from their recorders for each progressively more difficult tune. Although the students will not get to keep their recorders, they will be able to keep their belts at the end of the year. By the way, as cute as this title is, the method does not involve robes, kicking, or breaking lumber.
Some of the songs fifth grade students will be learning on the recorders are as follows: Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, Merrily We Roll Along, It's Raining, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, When The Saints Go Marching In, Amazing Grace, and Ode To Joy.
Recorder Karate is from Plank Road Publishing and is a highly motivational method for young players. This is a classroom-tested, carefully planned recorder method. At the heart of this method is a positive reward system in which students receive colored "karate belts" to hang from their recorders for each progressively more difficult tune. Although the students will not get to keep their recorders, they will be able to keep their belts at the end of the year. By the way, as cute as this title is, the method does not involve robes, kicking, or breaking lumber.
Some of the songs fifth grade students will be learning on the recorders are as follows: Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, Merrily We Roll Along, It's Raining, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, When The Saints Go Marching In, Amazing Grace, and Ode To Joy.
Fifth Grade Curriculum
The students will be taking part in an in depth music program. This program incorporates all of the Florida Sunshine State Standards for fifth grade. The following describes what the students will be learning for each nine weeks of school.
First Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Experience Listening/Singing extended range songs (C-F1) Rhythm – syncopated rhythms Melody – note names, tonality Timbre – vocal production Expression – p, mp, mf, f, subito Form – call & response phrases Texture/Harmony – vocal harmony Applications to Life –behaviors/responses Second Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Performance Rhythm – dotted rhythm patterns Melody – do, re, mi, fa, so, la, sequence Timbre – percussion Expression – crescendo, decrescendo Form – verse & refrain, ABA Texture/Harmony – partner songs, 3-part rounds | Third Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Improvisation Rhythm – dotted eighth sixteenth patterns Melody – melodic patterns with low ti Timbre – ensemble Expression – expressive use of rhythm & timbre Form – rondo Texture/Harmony – countermelody, descant Fourth Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Composition Rhythm – 6/8 meter, meter in 5 Melody – diatonic major & minor scales Timbre – keyboard Expression – accent & slur Form – 12-bar blues Texture/Harmony – I, IV, V7 chord accompaniments |
