2nd Grade
Following Students Interest through Inquiry into Conducting
National Core Arts Standards: Connecting (CN11)
Lesson Notes: During a transition one day in music class, students started conducting. They expressed they were interested in learning more about conducting. So we switched gears and did a "first think" to collect what pre-knowledge students already had. Then we brainstormed questions we still had and how we could answer our questions as "investigators". The students expressed interviewing conductors, trying to conduct, and hearing what an ensemble without a conductor sounded like. I worked with the High School & Middle School Orchestra and Band directors to set up an experience where students could interview & try out conducting with the HS & MS ensembles.
Student's First Thinks
Conductor Journals
Student Generated Questions
2D Conducting Questions.pdf2nd Conducting 2.MOV2nd Conducting.MOV2nd & 3rd Grade Level Concert Performance Clip
Students presented songs that they had learned within the music curriculum for family and fellow students. My teaching coworker and I collaborated together to choose songs from the curriculum and organize rehearsals.
Pass the Pumpkin
National Core Arts Standards: Performing (PR4.2.2b)
Objectives:
Students will be able to perform the melody of "Pass the Pumpkin" on xylophones as an ensemble.
Lesson Notes: Students play the game a rotate through the instruments each time they sing the song. The melody is broken up into 3 parts and each instrument plays a different part of the melody. After students exit the instrument rotation, they become "ghosts" and practice creative movement with scarves.
Movie Music Group Composition Project on GarageBand
Creating (CR1.1.2b, CR2.1.2B, CR3.2.2a), Responding (RE8.1.2a)
Objectives:
Students will be able to make musical choices based on the emotion they want to convey to their audience.
Students will be able to use GarageBand Live Loops to compose and record music to accompany their chosen cartoon clip.
Unit Notes: First students learned about movie music and explored how music affects movies from the audience's point of view. Then, students worked in groups to choose a movie clip and brainstorm what they wanted their music to sound like. Using GarageBand's Live Loops feature, they chose a genre that fit the mood they wanted the audience to feel and made a plan for which loops they would use. Finally, they recorded their work and presented their movie clips & music to each other.
Live Loops Recording Garageband.movExamples of Student Compositions
Caterpillar 2BG1C.mp4Toast Video 2CG6T.mp4Dust Bunnies Video 2AG1DB.mp4Movie Composition Worksheet.pdfMovie Composition Reflection.pdfFalling Leaves
National Core Arts Standards: Performing (PR4.2.2b, PR6.1.2b)
Objectives:
Students will be able to perform a 2-part accompaniment while singing the song "Falling Leaves".
Students will be able to perform a broken bordon.
Students will be able to perform an ostinato part with rests.
Lesson Notes: After learning the song "Falling Leaves" and performing the song in canon, students practice the two-part accompaniment using body percussion before transferring to xylophone.
Who's That Improvisation.MOVXylophone Improvisation
National Core Arts Standards: Creating (CR1.1.2a)
Objectives:
Students will be able to improvise a melodic pattern using so, la and mi.
Lesson Notes: Using a set rhythmic pattern, students improvised and chose how they wanted to play the rhythm using specific solfege pitches.
Engine Engine 2nd.MOVEngine Engine
National Core Arts Standard: Performing (PR6.1.2a)
Objectives:
Students will be able to perform music with many parts.
Students will be able to perform a steady beat bordon on the xylophone.
Students will be able to perform rhythmic ostinatos.
Lesson Notes: Students learned all parts through notation and body percussion. Then they rotated through each instrument to practice performing multiple parts as an ensemble.
1234 Fish.MOV1 2 3 4 Fish Song
National Core Arts Standard: Performing (PR6.1.2a)
Objectives:
Students will be able to perform a melody on the xylophone.
Students will be able to perform as an ensemble.
Lesson Notes: Students worked as a group to make final decisions on how to perform after learning the melody. Some of the kids knew a second verse to the poem which they taught to the rest of the class after expressing that they wanted to add it to the performance.
Centers Rhythm Assessment
National Core Arts Standard: Performing (PR4.2.2b)
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify, read, and perform 4-beat rhythm patterns using grade level rhythmic concepts (quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note, half note, half rest, and sixteenth notes).
Lesson Notes: Students were rotating through music centers. At this center, students were assessed on their ability to read and perform grade level rhythmic patterns.
seesaw rhythm.mp4Seesaw Rhythm Writing & Performance Assessment
National Core Arts Standard: Creating (CR2.1.2b) & Performing (PR4.2.3b)
Objectives:
Students will be able to compose, notate and perform an 8-beat pattern using quarter note, quarter rest and eighth note.
Lesson Notes: Students submitted their compositions to Seesaw for assessment.
Pokemon Rhythms.MOVPokemon Rhythm Composition & Performance
National Core Arts Standard: Creating (CR2.1.2b)
Objectives:
Students will be able notate and perform an 8-beat pattern using Pokemon manipulates (quarter note, quarter rest and eighth note).
Spanish Fish Movement.MOVSpanish Fish Composition & Movement Creation
National Core Arts Standard: Creating (CR2.1.2b)
Objectives:
Students will be able notate and perform an 16-beat pattern using Spanish fish rhythms (quarter note, quarter rest and eighth note).