Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.2B Grade 2 CPI 2

 

Standard: 1.2 - Creation and Performance

 

Strand: B - Music

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -The student will vocalize the “home tone” of familiar and unfamiliar songs, and demonstrate appropriate posture and breathing technique while performing songs, rounds, or canons in unison and with a partner

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

The Music in Poetry - Select a four line poem, written or projected on the board.
·        Read the poem with the class.
·        Using simple notation, assign rhythmic value to each word.
·        Clap and count the rhythm.
·        Using DO, MI SOL and LA, assign pitches to each rhythm and have students sing the melody.
·        Sing the song.

      ·        Have students improvise an ostinato to accompany the song.

 

Essential Questions:
·        How do everyday words or names have rhythm?
·        How do lyrics influence the shape of the melodic line?

 

Reflective Practice:
·        Spend one day listening to how everyday speech can sound like a song.