Resources for Studying Music at Home

We cover many subject matters in our daily music classes.  Below you will find standards that we are working on with each grade level and resources that can help students review what we have discussed in class.

5.CR.1.1 Understand how music has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of the United States.

Our 5th grade music classes have been learning patriotic songs of our country to understand how music is reflected in our culture and history.  Below you will find two videos of songs we have learned in class.

 

4.MR.1.4 Classify instruments into Western orchestral categories of wind, string, percussion, and brass

Fourth grade students at Forestville have been working hard to prepare for our upcoming symphony field trip on November 10th, 2015.  We will be going to Meymandi concert hall to hear the North Carolina symphony perform.  We have been discussing orchestral instruments and how to classify instruments into the correct instrument families. Below you will find a link to a document on the classics for kids website that will help students study each instrument family and the instruments that comprise them.  

Instrument Family Study Resource 

3.ML.2.3 Recognize standard symbols and traditional terms for dynamics, tempo, and articulation.

3.ML.1.1 Apply elemental changes, including changes to dynamics, tempo, timbre, or texture, when singing or playing music.

Third grade students have been learning terms that are used to describe various tempos in music.  They have learned that the term accelerando means to speed up.  In this video, students get to perform an accelerando by moving and singing to the Learning Station's version of "Ram Sam Sam".

 

2.ML.1.2 Use accurate pitch to sing three-pitch patterns.

 

Second grade students have been singing songs that contain the notes mi, so, and la.  Some of these songs include "Lucky Locket", "Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone", and "Acka Backa".  Below you will find a video of the song "Acka Backa".  Students can sing the song on the pitches mi, so, and la while watching the video.

1.MR.1.2 Recognize melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns, dynamics, and forms when presented aurally.

First grade students have been listening to rhythms and matching the rhythms to the correct notation.  Below you will find a link to the game rhythm sound match found at www.musictechteacher.com.  This will allow students to practice recognizing rhythmic patterns when they are presented aurally.

Recognizing Rhythmic Patterns 

K.ML.1.5 Illustrate a steady beat.

Kindergarten students have been learning to keep a steady beat while singing and playing music. Below you will find a video of the song "The Ants Go Marching".  Have your child sing the song with the video while marching to the steady beat of the song.