Recorder Karate!
Students in second 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 second grade students will be learning on the recorders are as follows: Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, Merrily We Roll Along, and It's Raining.
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 second grade students will be learning on the recorders are as follows: Hot Cross Buns, Gently Sleep, Merrily We Roll Along, and It's Raining.
Second 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 second grade. The following describes what the students will be learning for each nine weeks of school.
First Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Experience Listening/Singing - 5 to 7 note range songs Rhythm – steady beat & melodic rhythm Melody – so, mi and la Timbre – vocal & body percussion Expression – dynamics (forte & piano) Form – call & response Texture/Harmony – thin & thick Applications to Life – appropriate behaviors and responses Second Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Performance Rhythm – quarter & eighth notes, quarter rests, meter in 2 Melody – skips, steps & repeated pitches, mi-re-do patterns Timbre – pitched percussion Expression – articulation, accents Form – AAB form Texture/Harmony – mult. layer ostinatos | Third Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Improvisation Rhythm – sixteenth notes, tie, half notes Melody – Do pentatonic Timbre – string instruments Expression – crescendo, decrescendo, p, f Form – AABA, AB & coda, ABACA Texture/Harmony – melodic ostinatos Fourth Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Composition Rhythm – meter in 3 Melody – Tonality Do pentatonic in F, G Timbre – woodwind & brass instruments Expression – fermata Form – question/answer phrases, D.C. al Fine Texture/Harmony – ostinato accompaniments |
