Recorder Karate!
Students in third 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 third 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, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
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 third 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, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
Third 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 third grade. The following describes what the students will be learning for each nine weeks of school.
First Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Experience Listening/singing 8 note range songs E-E1 Rhythm – sixteenth, eighth, quarter, half notes, quarter rests Melody – melodic direction, mi, re, do Timbre – solo & group vocals Expression – dynamics (piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte) Form – AB form Texture/Harmony – rhythmic ostinatos Applications to Life – appropriate behaviors and responses Second Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Performance Rhythm – syncopation Melody – skips/steps/repeats, low la Timbre – stringed instruments Expression – articulation, tempo changes Form – ABA with D.C. al Fine Texture/Harmony – call & response | Third Nine Weeks:
Emphasis: Improvisation Rhythm – meter in 3 Melody –Do & high Do Timbre – keyboards, percussion Expression – crescendo, decrescendo, p, f Form – introduction & coda Texture/Harmony – partner songs Fourth Nine Weeks: Emphasis: Composition Rhythm – meter in 2, 3, & 4 Melody – letter names Timbre – electronics, brass & woodwinds Expression – dynamics, tempo Form – AABA, rondo Texture/Harmony – canon, chords |
