Recorder Karate!
Students in fourth 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 fourth 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, and When The Saints Go Marching In.
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 fourth 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, and When The Saints Go Marching In.
Fourth 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 fourth 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 (D-F1) Rhythm – sixteenth, eighth, quarter, half, dotted-half notes, quarter rests Melody – pentatonic scale, tonal center Timbre – vocal Expression – dynamics (p, mp, mf, f) Form – call & response Texture/Harmony – multi-layer ostinato accompaniments, chords Applications to Life –behaviors/responses Second Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Performance Rhythm – syncopation, meter in 4 Melody – notes in treble clef Timbre – wind instruments Expression – articulation, tempo changes Form – verse & refrain Texture/Harmony – melodic ostinato | Third Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Improvisation Rhythm – sixteenth/eighth combinations Melody – tonality, major scale Timbre – string instruments Expression – sudden tempo changes Form – AABA Texture/Harmony – layers of sound, countermelody Fourth Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Composition Rhythm – dotted quarter notes Melody – melodic sequence Timbre – ensembles Expression – dynamics, tempo, accents Form – theme & variations Texture/Harmony – 2 chord accompaniment (I & IV) |
