Second Grade Music
- Practice steady beat bordun on Orff (xylophones)
- Learn half note, whole note, half rest, whole rest
- Learn do, re, mi, so, la, high do using hand signs and staff notation
- Practice singing on pitch
- Learn AB form in music
- Learn various signs and symbols (staff, treble clef, bar lines, measure, time signature, line/space notes, repeat signs, fermata, D.C. al Fine)
- Experience the string family of instruments
September Songs & Concepts:
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Practicing their animal rhythms to the song "Bought Me a Cat"
Playing a fun stick passing game to the song "Me Stone"
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October Songs & Concepts:
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Showing AB form in the song "Moulinet (Polka)"
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November Songs & Concepts:
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December Songs & Concepts:
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Second graders singing "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" at our annual sing-along :)
Showing their hand signs!
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January Songs & Concepts:
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February Songs & Concepts:
- "Sheep Shearing" (crescendo)
- "Sag du noko" (dynamics)
- "Symphonic Dances, Op. 64, No. 4" by Edvard Grieg (listening dynamics)
- "Skinnamarink" (singing/actions/ABA form)
- "You Are My Sunshine" (singing/melody)
- "Who Chopped the Cherry Tree Down?" (singing independently)
- "Hello, Hello There" (dotted half note)
- "Chapanecas (Ladies of Chiapas)" (dotted half note)
- Rhythm Square Game (review known rhythms: quarter note, quarter rest, half note, half rest, dotted half note)
- Rhythm writing practice (review known rhythms: quarter note, quarter rest, half note, half rest, dotted half note)
March Songs & Concepts:
- "Old Woman and the Pig" (Re)
- "There's a Hole in the Bucket" (Re)
- "Hot Cross Buns" (Do, Re, Mi)
- "Hop Old Squirrel" (Do, Re, Mi)
- "Who's That Tapping at the Window" (Do, Re, Mi, So, La)
- Playing a song on xylophones (using half notes and melodic pitches)
April Songs & Concepts:
- "Who's That Tapping at the Window?" (Do, Re, Mi, So, La, Do')
- Review known signs and symbols in music
- "Baby Beluga" (signs & symbols/piano & forte)
- "Everything Grows" (signs & symbols/crescendo, decrescendo, D.C. al Fine)
- "Shoo Fly" (signs & symbols/fermata)
- "Tiki Tiki Room" (signs & symbols/D.C. al Fine, coda)
May/June Songs & Concepts:
- Test on signs and symbols in music
- Four instrument families (strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion)
- Experience the string family of instruments
- Review rhythms with Rhythm Telephone
- Review favorite songs!