September: - Rules and Procedures
- Matching pitches (Tonal Focus: so-mi)
- Playing instruments (Bells)
- Call-and-response
- Beat vs. Rhythm
- Multicultural Music: Ghana
- Exploring the origin of songs and meaning of the words and their importance
October: - Matching pitches (Various tonal patterns and keys)
- Coordination of large motor skills with music
- Improvisation (Making up own words to fit in responses for songs)
- Specific usage of high and low through using so-mipatterns
- Basic notation, using so-mi patterns
- Listening: "The Banshee" by Henry Cowell (Time allowing)
- Responding with singing correct pitches and using complete sentences in songs
November: - Matching pitches
- Basic structure of form (AB/ABC)
- Basic notation
- Creating own movement to songs (Assessment to Form)
- Multicultural Music: Mexico
- Beat vs. Rhythm
December: - Matching pitches
- Form (AB/ABC)
- Holiday Songs
January - Pitches: high, medium, low
- Matching pitches
- Form (AABBA/Figure out other forms)
February-March - Transferring singing pitches to the step bells
- How to unpack/pack step bells
- Proper use of step bells and mallets
- Rhythms: Quarter Note, Eighth Note, Quarter Rest
April-May - Listening: In the Hall of the Mountain King from The Peer Gynt Suite, by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- Connection to Rhythm with the aforementioned listening piece (introduce half note)
- Folk Songs from Other Parts of the World
June - Review of content from the school year
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