Music Week 30

3rd-Recorder Skills

4th-Piano Skills

5th-Guitar/Uke skills, begin learning 5th grade promotion song: Onward, Upward


K-2

Tick Tock(not the pop song)

Objective: Steady beat and playing the steadbeat on orff instruments and temple blocks, solfege objective so, mi, do

1. Teacher sings the song and has students join in when they know the song
2.Continue singing the song until students can sing without teacher
3.Divide class into two groups.
1.Orff instruments
2.Circle game with temple blocks and rhythm sticks

Game:Students sit in a circle. The temple blocks and a containter of rhytm sticks are in the center of the circle. One child is chosen to be the first temple block player. The studets sing the son and pass one bean bag/tennis ball around the circle to the right on the beat. Whoever has the bean bag on the word "song" will be the next temple block player on the next repition of the song. The child who was chosen before the game started plays the first solo. During this solo the orff instruments rotate over one instrument. After playing solo, the first temple block player gets a pari rhythm sticks and retures to his seat in class. When the song begins again, the ball gets passed around and the rhythm stick players keep a steady beat along with the Orff instruments. After all have had a turn at the temple blocks, switch orff instrument with rhythm stick players