WING GENERAL MUSIC CURRICULUM (K-1)
Did your child come home wanting you to "Ask Me" about something they did in music class?
Click one of the links below to find some of the songs, chants, and rhymes that we have been working on in music class!
Click one of the links below to find some of the songs, chants, and rhymes that we have been working on in music class!
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The general music curriculum at Wing Elementary School utilizes the Orff-Schulwerk approach with many activities from Gameplan written by Randy DeLelles and Jeff Kriske as well as an emphasis on music readiness through the use of John Feierabend's First Steps in Music. At the primary level (K-1), lessons that are presented are designed to prepare children to be musical in three different ways:
1. Tuneful - to have tunes in their heads and learn to coordinate their voices to sing those tunes,
2. Beatful - to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either
2s or 3s,
3. Artful - to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful
response
The First Steps in Music curriculum is a musical workout that grows tuneful, beatful and artful individuals. There are eight different activities in each workout. And, like aerobics, in the beginning some participants will likely be clumsy in some aspects of the workout, but if they give it their best, they are bound to improve! And, like an aerobics workout, the more one participates the better the effect. Balancing repetition and variety is key to each workout being effective and interesting.
Following are the 8 musical workout activities:
1. Pitch Exploration (Vocal Warm-ups)
2. Fragment Singing, Echo Songs, Call and Response Songs
3. Simple Songs
4. Arioso (child created tunes)
5. Songtales
6. Movement Exploration
7. Movement for Form and Expression
8. Movement with the Beat
Children who learn to be tuneful, beatful and artful before they leave elementary school will grow to be adults who can benefit from what music can offer. Those that go on to sing in choirs or play an instrument will do so in a more musical manner. Those that do not choose to later sing in choirs or play an instrument will still be enriched by being able to share music in their daily lives.
source/credit: www.feierabendmusic.org
1. Tuneful - to have tunes in their heads and learn to coordinate their voices to sing those tunes,
2. Beatful - to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either
2s or 3s,
3. Artful - to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful
response
The First Steps in Music curriculum is a musical workout that grows tuneful, beatful and artful individuals. There are eight different activities in each workout. And, like aerobics, in the beginning some participants will likely be clumsy in some aspects of the workout, but if they give it their best, they are bound to improve! And, like an aerobics workout, the more one participates the better the effect. Balancing repetition and variety is key to each workout being effective and interesting.
Following are the 8 musical workout activities:
1. Pitch Exploration (Vocal Warm-ups)
2. Fragment Singing, Echo Songs, Call and Response Songs
3. Simple Songs
4. Arioso (child created tunes)
5. Songtales
6. Movement Exploration
7. Movement for Form and Expression
8. Movement with the Beat
Children who learn to be tuneful, beatful and artful before they leave elementary school will grow to be adults who can benefit from what music can offer. Those that go on to sing in choirs or play an instrument will do so in a more musical manner. Those that do not choose to later sing in choirs or play an instrument will still be enriched by being able to share music in their daily lives.
source/credit: www.feierabendmusic.org
