2024-2025 Archway Music Info

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Grade Music 
2024-2025
Mrs. Carpenter
Email: pcarpenter@archwaychandler.org
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 Welcome back to school, Knights! I am so excited to start another wonderful year of music with your scholars. The 2024-2025 school year will be my 11^th year at Archway Chandler and 16^th year teaching music. I’m thrilled to announce that I will be teaching all scholars again this year: K-5^th grade. I was the first Archway music teacher in the Great Hearts network and am proud to have played a significant role in creating the elementary music curriculum that is taught today in multiple states. The first Archway campus to offer strings outside of the curriculum, I currently oversee and direct the extra-curricular strings ensembles at Chandler. I graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Music Education degree with an emphasis in piano and a minor in Spanish. In my spare time, I enjoy volunteering at my church in Tempe and spending quality time with my husband, three children, and two crazy pups. Other interests include playing the piano for fun, munching on chips and salsa, watching movies, and reading.

Required Student Materials

	Consumables
K-1 Scholars	None
2nd Grade Scholars	"Theory Time for Grade 2" ISBN: 1890348023
3rd Grade Scholars	"Theory Time for Grade 3" ISBN: 1890348031
4th Grade Scholars	"Theory Time Grade 4" ISBN: 189034804X
5th Grade Scholars	"Theory Time Grade 5" ISBN: 1890348058

 

2nd Grade Books and Consumables

3rd Grade Books and Consumables

4th Grade Books and Consumables

5th Grade Books and Consumables

Music History/Listening Overview

The 2^nd-5^th grade scholars will be introduced to a variety of genres of music as well as learn the history of composers. Picture glyphs, listening guides, google slides, and class discussions will assist students in understanding the sounds of each piece and its correlation to the time period in which it was composed. Composers the students will listen to this year include J.S. Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saens. Kinder and 1^st grade scholars will be learning traditional folk songs, using their bodies, instruments, and even art to imitate sounds of the music and discuss music terminology.

Music Listening/History	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4
K-1 Scholars	Folk Songs, composer highlight- Mozart	Movements from "The Nutrcracker", by Tchaikovsky	Folk Songs, composer highlights- Beethoven and Prokoviev	Folk Songs, composer highlights- Saint-Saens
2nd Grade Scholars	Families of the Orchestra, "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokoviev	Movements from "The Nutrcracker", by Tchaikovsky	Seasonal Listening: composer highlights- Strauss, Haydn, Ravel	Seasonal Listening: composer highlights- Debussy, Schumann, Schubert
3rd-5th Grade Scholars	Baroque Period: composer highlights- Bach, Vivaldi,  Scarlatti	Early Classical Period: composer highlight- Mozart	Late Classical Period: composer highlight- Beethoven	Romantic/Contemporary Period: composer highlights-  Schumann, Chopin, Ravel

 

Music Theory/Sight-Singing Overview

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of basic music theory. Each grade level’s curriculum builds upon knowledge attained from the previous year. If your scholar is new to Archway, do not worry! We will begin the year reviewing all the necessary content. We will utilize classroom instruments throughout the school year to reinforce music theory and sightreading concepts. Theory books will be left in the music room during the school year. I will not be asking students to complete homework as all work will be done in class. 

Sight-reading is a time for students to put their knowledge of the fundamentals of music theory to practice. This is a great way to reinforce good reading habits (left to right; associating symbols with sounds/pitches) as well as practice the hand signs that correspond with the pitches.  

 

Music Theory/ Sight-Reading	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4
K-1 Scholars	Sight-Reading: Quarter note/rest, pair of eighth notes, half note, La-Sol-Mi    Theory: High/Low, Fast/Slow, ABA Form	Sight-Reading: Whole note, dotted half note, Do    Theory: Line note/Space note, Staff, Dynamics	Sight-Reading: Half rest/Whole rest, Re      Theory: Treble note names, Tempo	Sight-Reading: 3/4 time signature, Ti and High Do        Theory: Articulation markings, review tempo/dynamics, note names
2nd Grade Scholars	Sight-Reading: Quarter note/rest, pair of eighth notes, half note, La-Sol-Mi-Do  Theory: Music alphabet, types of notes, stem rules, time signature	Sight-Reading: Whole note, dotted half note, Re    Theory: Steps, skips, repeats, drawing the treble clef, treble lines and spaces	Sight-Reading: Half rest/Whole rest, Fa      Theory: Drawing bass clef, bass clef lines and spaces	Sight-Reading: 3/4 time signature, Ti and High Do        Theory: Review treble and bass clef names, rests, bar lines, measures, time signature
3rd-5th Grade Scholars  *will vary in difficulty based on grade level	Sight-Reading: Quarter note/rest, pair of eighth notes, half note, La-Sol-Mi-Do  Theory: Music alphabet, types of notes, staff, rests, stem rules, intro to 16th note/rest (5th only)	Sight-Reading: Whole note, dotted half note, Re-Fa    Theory: Drawing treble and bass clefs, naming notes in treble and bass clef, time signatures	Sight-Reading: Half rest/Whole rest, Ti-High Do   Theory: Rests, bar lines, measures, double bar lines, rhythm drills, ledger lines, melodic and harmonic intervals (5th only)	Sight-Reading: 3/4 time signature, Review major scale      Theory: Intervals, halfsteps/whole-steps, sharps and flats, major scale patterns

 

 

2023-2024 CONCERT DATES!

Archway Chandler scholars perform two times a school year in the CPA gym. These performances are mandatory for all students. SAVE THE DATES! Times for each grade level will be announced as we get closer to the event.

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 – Winter Concert

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 – Spring Concert

 

Archway’s Extra-Curricular Strings Ensembles

3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Grade Scholars

1.    Archway Strings: An ensemble intended for beginning strings students (violin, viola, or cello). No experience necessary. Wednesdays from 1:00-2:00

 

2.    NEW-The Knightly Notes Ensemble: Requires 1+ year of experience. Scholars who participated in Archway Strings last year and want to build on fundamentals.                                Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00

 

3.    Strings of the Round Table: Requires 1+ year of experience. Scholars who participated in Archway Strings and/or Strings of the Round Table last year. Music is more advanced.                    Fridays from 7:15-8:00 AM

More info can be found at: Archway Chandler Clubs Information

If you’d like to learn about more ways to support the music program at Archway Chandler, please consider donating to our Archway Music Class Amazon Wish List at this link:

 

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