Curriculum Skills
ON-line and IN-person Courses
PreWindsongs
K5-1st grade
PreW Skills List:
- Long and short rhythm patterns using auditory methods only
- Long and short rhythm patterns using visual icons
- Long and short rhythm patterns using music symbols for 'ta' quarter notes, 'ti-ti' eighth notes, and 'rest' quarter rests
- Read and perform 4-beat patterns using music note symbols
- Match vocal pitch
- Use one's singing voice appropriately (whispering, singing, shouting, and speaking) with various songs and rhymes
- Respond appropriately to music with movement
- Understand and identify the dynamics forte and piano
- Express emotion in music through listening, singing, and movement
- Use solfege hand signs while singing solfege: 'so, mi, la'
Curriculum includes:
- 3 teaching stories (focused on pitch and movement exploration)
- 5 Solfege teaching stories 'so, mi, la'
- 6 "Sing To Read" books (connecting music to reading)
- 10 rhymes
- 14 listening selections (including all of Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns)
- 25 songs
PreW class/course is taught ON-line and IN-person.
IN-person students also learn one patriotic song and one Praise and Worship song and songs from the Musical Play in the spring.
Performance: IN-Person students have 2 formal performances during the year. ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Windsongs 1
1st-2nd grade
W1 class/course is taught
ON-line and IN-person.
No course Prerequisite
W1 Skill List:
- Understand the difference between heartbeat and rhythm
-Play the precorder using proper technique
- Read, play, and sing music using whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rest ('taaaa', 'taa', 'ta', 'ti-ti', and 'rest')
- Read and understand the difference between 2-beat and 4-beat meter
- Show an understanding of music vocabulary and concepts: music staff, bar line, double bar line, repeat sign, measure, and time signature
- Identify aurally and visually the pitches and hand signs for 'mi re do', and 'so mi la'
- Use all known solfege in the learning and singing of new songs
-Read the notes B, A, and G in the music staff and play the songs on the precorder
- Understand and perform harmony
- Identify rhythms that are heard but not seen
- Use inner hearing to recognize known songs from teacher-given silent solfege
Curriculum includes:
- 1 self-composed song using original rhythm and melody
- 3 Ear-Training Game Songs
- 4 Solfege teaching books
- 7 classical themes studied from 6 different composers
- 8 singing songs and rhymes
- 17 precorder song
IN-Person W1 students perform in a Musical play!
(Play rotation of Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and Little Red Riding Hood)
IN-person students also learn one patriotic song and one Praise and Worship song and songs from the Musical Play in the spring.
Performance: IN-Person students have 2 formal performances during the year. ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Prerequisite: Completion of W1 or W1 ACC
Windsongs 2
2nd/3rd grade
W2 class/course is taught ON-line and IN-person
W2 Skill List:
- Identify and play notes that are tied
- Write rhythm patterns from aural dictation
- Read, play, and sing music using: Sixteenth notes, combination of eighth and sixteenth notes, single eighth note, eighth rest, dotted half note ('tikatika',ti-tika, tika-ti, 'ti', 'taaa')
- Play, count, and sing in three-beat meter
- Identify and play new notes: E and D
- Develop an understanding of solfege in songs in the key of G and C
- Continue using all known solfege in the learning and singing of new songs in the key of G and C: do, re, mi, so, la
- Create an ostinato
- Create a rhythm that correctly matches the syllables in words
Curriculum includes:
- Introduction of the instruments of the band and orchestra
- 2 self-composed songs using original rhythm and melody
- 2 Ear-Training songs (game/movement songs)
- 5 solfege teaching books
- 7 singing and game songs
- 7 classical themes studied from 5 different composers
- 21 precorder songs
IN-person students also learn one patriotic song and one Praise and Worship song and songs from the Musical Play in the spring.
Performance: IN-Person students have 2 formal performances during the year. ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
No course Prerequisite
W1 ACC Skill List:
-Play the precorder using proper technique
- Read, play, and sing music using whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rest ('taaaa', 'taa', 'ta', 'ti-ti', and 'rest')
- Read and understand the difference between 2-beat and 4-beat meter
- Show an understanding of music vocabulary and concepts: music staff, bar line, double bar line, repeat sign, measure, and time signature
- Identify aurally and visually the pitches and hand signs for 'mi re do', and 'so mi la'
- Use all known solfege in the learning and singing of new songs
-Read the notes B, A, and G in the music staff and play the songs on the precorder
- Understand and perform harmony
- Identify rhythms that are heard but not seen
- Use inner hearing to recognize known songs from teacher-given silent solfege
Curriculum includes:
- 1 Solfege teaching book
- 1 self-composed song using original rhythm and melody
- 3 Ear-Training songs
- 4 classical themes studied from 4 different composers
- 14 precorder songs
Windsongs 1
ACCelerated
3rd-5th grade
W1 ACC course is only taught ON-line
Performance: ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Windsongs 2 ACC
3rd/4th/5th grade
Prerequisite: Completion of W1 or W1ACC
W2 ACC Skill List:
- Identify and play notes that are tied
- Write rhythm patterns from aural dictation
- Read, play, and sing music using: Sixteenth notes, combination of eighth and sixteenth notes, single eighth note, eighth rest, dotted half note ('tikatika',ti-tika, tika-ti, 'ti', 'taaa')
- Play, count, and sing in three-beat meter
- Identify and play new notes: E and D
- Develop an understanding of solfege in songs in the key of G and C
- Continue using all known solfege in the learning and singing of new songs in the key of G and C: do, re, mi, so, la
- Create ostinato
- Create a rhythm that correctly matches the syllables in words
Curriculum includes:
- Introduction to the instruments of the band and orchestra
- 2 self-composed songs using original rhythm and melody
- 2 solfege teaching books
- 4 Ear-Training songs (game/movement songs)
- 5 classical themes studied from 3 different composers
- 21 precorder songs
W2 ACC course is only taught ON-line
ON-Line - enrollment
Performance: ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Prerequisite: Completion of W2 or W2 ACC or on approval of Mrs. Jackie
Windsongs 3
3rd-5th grade
W3 class/course is taught ON-line and IN-person
W3 Skill List:
-Play the soprano recorder using proper technique
-Play Rounds and Canons
-Play and read new recorder notes C (high), C (low), D (high)
-Use new solfege pitch and hand sign - 'fa'
-Count and correctly play the rhythm of 'tam ti' dotted quarter-eighth, and 'ti tam' eighth dotted quarter
-Understand that solfege pitches are relative to the 'key' of the piece of music (moveable 'do')
- Sing solfege in the keys of G and C using: do, re, mi, fa, so, la
-Play songs with D.C. al Fine
-Create and play an Ostinato
-Play and sing using written dynamics
-Understand and play songs that start with an anacrusis (pick-up)
-Identify and play the G major half scale
-Identify and play the C major half scale
Curriculum includes:
- Review of the instruments of the band and the orchestra
- 1 self-composed song using original rhythm and melody
- 2 Solfege teaching book
- 4 Ear-Training songs (included in game songs)
- 5 Songs/Song Games
- 8 classical themes studied from 5 different composers
- 22 recorder songs
IN-Person and Hybrid - enrollment
contact: jshellabarger@gmail.com
ON-Line - enrollment
contact: HomeSchoolMusicClass@gmail.com
IN-person students also learn one patriotic song and one Praise and Worship song and songs from the Musical Play in the spring.
Performance: IN-Person students have 2 formal performances during the year. ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Prerequisite: Completion of W3 or on approval of Mrs. Jackie
Windsongs 4
4th/5th grade
W4 class/course is taught ON-line and IN-person
W4 Skill List:
Singing and Recorder:
-Play, sing and read songs that use the syncopation rhythm pattern - 'ti ta_ ti' (eighth- quarter -eighth)
-Play, sing and read songs that use the rhythm of 'tim-ri' and 'ri-tim' (dotted eighth-sixteenth and sixteenth-dotted eighth)
-Play and read the new notes high E, and F#, and show the related solfege pitches
-Continued practice of singing using solfege pitches: do, re, mi, fa, so, la
-Play songs with 1st and 2nd endings
Dulcimer:
-Play the dulcimer with proper technique and appropriate strum patterns
Curriculum includes:
- 1 self-composed song using original rhythm and melody
- 3 Ear-Training songs
- 6 dulcimer songs
- 7 Classical themes studied from 6 different composers
- 24 recorder songs
IN-Person and Hybrid - enrollment
contact: jshellabarger@gmail.com
ON-Line - enrollment
contact: HomeSchoolMusicClass@gmail.com
IN-person students also learn one patriotic song and one Praise and Worship song and songs from the Musical Play in the spring.
Performance: IN-Person students have 2 formal performances during the year. ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.
Recorder Essentials Plus
(REP)
6th-12th grade
REP class/course is only taught ON-line
No course Prerequisite
REP Skill List:
-Play the recorder with proper technique
-Read and play the notes: High C, Low D, E, F, F#, G, A, B on recorder
-Correctly count and play the following music rhythms:
quarter note, quarter rest
half note, half rest
eighth notes and single eighth notes
whole note, whole rest
dotted half note
dotted quarter note
-Understand the music terms:
music staff, bar lines, measure
time signature - 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
repeat sign, 1st and 2nd ending
Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Ritardando
D.C. al Fine, Fermata, Staccato
-Correct playing of tied notes
Curriculum includes:
- How to conduct music in the meter of: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
- Composing one's own words to fit the existing rhythm
- Composing one's own melody and rhythm
-4 classical themes studied from 4 different composers
-Lines and songs #1-#110 in the Essential Elements Recorder book, including music from around the world: German, Russian, French, Japanese, American, African American, English, Jazz, Appalachian, Irish, Native American and more
Performance: ON-Line students are encouraged to perform for others.