Miss Lenhart's Music Class
K-4 General Music | St. Joseph Elementary School | St. Joseph, Illinois
Miss Lenhart's Music Class
Recorder unit preparation:
Recent Activities
The 4th grade students are busy with their typical curricular tasks in order to continue to build their skills in preparation for the beginning of their Recorder unit in January. This unit is the first time the students will be responsible for their own personal instrument, music, and practicing habits. The unit will culminate in individual class performances in the music room in the Spring. Performance dates have yet to be announced.
More information about the Recorder unit to come soon.
4th Grade Curriculum:
Musical Experiences
The students as St. Joseph Grade school participate in an interactive and stimulating General Music curriculum that utilizes the Orff-Schulwerk approach. This approach encourages a learning atmosphere that is developmentally appropriate for the students as well as creates an interactive, creative, and engaging environment. This approach also led to the development of specialized melody instruments that are appropriate for the elementary-aged child to perform on. These melody instruments include: wooden xylophones, metal metallophones, and metal glockenspiels. When these instruments are played together in an ensemble, this helps the children become sensitive listeners and considerate participants.
A typical daily lesson consists of a variety of activities that reinforce the lesson’s primary musical objectives. These activities may include: movement/dance, songs/rhymes/poems/chants, singing games, or performance opportunities on either upitched percussion or melodic Orff instruments. Each activity is planned and developed in order to provide the students with several opportunities to experience the musical concept on a visual, aural, and kinesthetic level.
At the 4th grade level the students focus on these primary musical objectives throughout the year:
♫ Solfege: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do', Low Sol, Low La, Major Scale
♫ Rhythms: Quarter, Eighth, Half, Dotted Half, and Whole notes and rests, Syncopation, Sixteenth notes, Triplet
♫ Form: AB, ABA, Rondo, Q & A, Additive Form, Extended Form, Ostinato, Cannon, Phrase
♫ Dynamics: pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo/decrescendo
♫ Notation: reading and writing standard music notation
♫ Performing Technique: independant and ensemble performances
♫ Melody/Harmony: by providing accompaniments for selves on Orff instruments
♫ Music Analysis
♫ Composition
♫ Orchestral Instruments
♫ Unpitched Instrument Technique
♫ Pitched Instrument Technique
In addition to the typical daily lesson, the students at St. Joseph also participate in a variety of musical experiences throughout the year. This includes several specific units of study that culminate in either a student performance or the attendance of a performance.
Some of this year's experiences include:
♫ Recorder Unit **Information Coming Soon!**
♫ 4th grade Recorder Program
♫ CUSO In-School Music Education Concert
♫ Thomas Metcalf "OrffCats" assembly
♫ Heart of Illinois Orff Chapter Honor's Day Festival in Normal, IL
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