2nd Grade

Quarter 2

Weeks 1 and 2:

Music Theory: Review Treble Clef note names and the identification of steps vs. skips

 

Music Listening: 

Identify instruments of the "Keyboard Family": piano, harpsichord, organ

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 3 and 4:

Music Theory: 

Treble Clef Lines and Spaces

Music Listening: 

Dalcroze/Orff Movement Piece: "Let's Take a Walk" 

Edvard Grieg: "In the Hall of the Mountain King", J.S. Bach: "Tocatta and Fugue in d minor"

"Monster Mash" Boomwhackers

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 5 and 6:

Music Theory: Treble Clef Lines and Spaces Continued

 

Music Listening: 

Peter Tchaikovsky's Biography and "Overture" to The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky's "March" from The Nutcracker

 

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 7 - 9:

Concert Prep: Rehearse, memorize, and polish concert songs for performance on December 11.

Weeks 10-11:

Reflect on Concert and Play Music Games, Listen to remaining movements of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"

Quarter 1

Weeks 1 and 2:

• Notation/Melody – 

• Week 1: Review Sol and Mi using the song “Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands”; sight-read the song “Bluebird” using pictures, then music notes on a music staff, and finally perform on boomwhackers.

• Week 2: - Continue review sol and mi, add la in Mystery Melody.

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• Week 1: Review ta, ti-ti-, and sh (quarter note, pair of eighth notes, and quarter rest) with claps and mystery rhythm. 

• Week 2: “We’re Goin’ Back to School”, ta’s and ti-ti’s (quarter notes and pairs of eighth notes)

• Theory – 

• Week 1: “Music Alphabet”, pg. 1, identify 2 and 3 black key patterns on the keyboard.

• Week 2: “Music Alphabet”, pg. 2, introduce lines/spaces of treble clef notes on the staff

• Boomwhackers/Science of Sound:

• Week 1: Introduce music staff with boomwhackers, “Boombox”: perform twelve, eight-beat “boxes” of patterns with the boomwhackers.

• Week 2: Identify high/low sounds due to the size of the instrument

• Music Listening:

• Week 2: Strings Family, Listen to “Pizzicato Polka” by Johann Strauss

Weeks 3 and 4:

·        Continue working on Sol-Mi-La patterns in our daily Mystery Melodies. 

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• “We’re Goin’ to the Zoo” and “We’re Goin’ to the Pet Store”: Ta’s (quarter notes), Ti-Ti’s (pairs of eighth notes), and Sh (quarter rests) using animal themes. 

• Daily Mystery Rhythms – continue to practice ta’s, ti-ti’s, quarter rests, and ti-ri-ti-ri’s (groups of four sixteenth notes).

• Students clap rhythms or play them on classroom percussion instruments. 

• Theory – 

• Week 3: “Rhythm”, pg. 3

• Week 4: “Stem Rules”, pg. 4

• Boomwhackers/Science of Sound:

• Identify term “vibration”.

• Play “Sound Partner Game” to identify correlating sounds. 

• Music Listening:

• Week 3: Woodwind Family, Listen to “Little Fugue in G Minor”, by J.S. Bach

• Week 4: Brass Family, Listen to “Fanfare for the Common Man”, by Aaron Copland

Weeks 5 and 6:

·        Continue working on Sol-Mi-La patterns in our daily Mystery Melodies. 

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• “We’re Goin’ to Ocean” and "We're Goin' to the Farm": Ta’s (quarter notes), Ti-Ti’s (pairs of eighth notes), and Sh (quarter rests) using animal themes. 

• Daily Mystery Rhythms – continue to practice ta’s, ti-ti’s, quarter rests, and ti-ri-ti-ri’s (groups of four sixteenth notes).

• Students clap rhythms or play them on classroom percussion instruments. 

• Theory – 

• Week 5: “Stem Rules”, pg. 4

• Week 6: "Stem Rules continued", pg. 5

• Science of Sound:

• Identify term "pitch", "volume", and "ribbon waves"

• Music Listening:

• Week 5: Percussion Family, Listen to "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", by Benjamin Britten

• Week 6: Keyboard Family, Listen to “Pathetique" by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Concert Preparation:
• Continue to work on our Holiday and Winter music for our big concert on December 11!

Weeks 7 - 10:

• Notation/Melody – 

• Sol, Mi, La

• Students to sight-read varying patterns of the SML pattern.

• Notation/Rhythm – 

• Daily Mystery Rhythms include of variety of the following rhythmic symbols: quarter note, pair of eighth notes,  and quarter rest.

• Theory – 

• "Step/Skip" pg. 7 (Read the book "Step and Skip")

• "Treble Clef Note Names", pg. 8

• "Fun Sheet" (Review), pg. 9

• Music Listening:

• Keyboard Family: Listen to "Aria and Variation" by Bach (harpsichord), "Fur Elise" by Beethoven (piano) and "Toccata and Fugue in d minor" by Bach (organ)

• Orchestra Family Jeopardy

• Watch "Peter and the Wolf"

• Science of Sound:
• Identify the terms;
• Pitch
• Volume
• Sound Waves
• Concert Preparation: Continue to practice our holiday and winter songs for our concert on December 11!