4th grade
Tall Tale
Lyrics Out in the garden pickin’ peas, I thought I heard a chicken sneeze. He sneezed so hard with a whoopin’ cough, He sneezed his head and tail right off! I like to use this chant with improvisation and composition …
Recorder Songs DGB
Songs Reveille (Section A) Warm Your Hands (countermelody) See also Recorder Songs & Resources
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Lyrics 1. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king? …
Recorder Songs GBD’
Song In Some Lady’s Garden Trampin’ See also Recorder Songs & Resources
Sibelius lessons
My school has installed the Sibelius music writing program on a few computers that I have in my room. I let the 4th and 5th grade students use it a couple of times per year. I don’t feel like I …
Recorder Assessments
Notes G,A,B Written Assessment Performance Assessment – See Down By the Station Rubrics Notes E,G,A,B Performance Assessment – See Train’s Off the Track Rubrics Notes D,G,A,B Performance Assessment – See Down By the Station Rubrics Notes G,A,B,C’,D’ Performance Assessment – See Ode to Joy Rubrics …
Pre-K / Preschool through 6th Music Lesson Plans
Curricular Charts Pre-K Lessons K-5 Instruments of the Orchestra K – Celebrations K – Melody K – Rhythm 1st – Melody 1st – Rhythm 2nd – Melody 2nd – Rhythm 3rd – Melody 3rd – Rhythm 4th – Melody 4th …
Blues Songs
Songs Backwater Blues Brown’s Ferry Blues City Blues Deep-River Blues Freight Train Blues I’m Going Down the Road Feeling Bad (Lonesome Road Blues) Joe Turner Blues Lonesome House Blues St. Louis Blues Worried Man Blues See also jazz activities
Orchestra: Brasses & Woodwinds
I do a short unit in 4th grade focusing on Brasses and Woodwinds, since those two families are so easy to confuse. Brass & Woodwind Word Search and Assessment See also Brass Family Woodwind Family Orchestra resources Extras …
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Lyrics Mary had a little lamb Little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go …
