This week, students are performing the sound stories and timbre projects that they have been working on. As soon as we are finished, I will post the performance videos.
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Students are spending this week exploring the different timbres available to them for the epic sound stories they are creating. We are using music to enhance literature while we explore pitch, timbre and rhythm.tim·bre ˈtambər/ noun
Autumn is a wonderful time for our 4th graders to explore timbre. Students will be enhancing literature with different sounds they create throughout the months of September and October. On Sept. 11 at 1:45, Big Shanty Intermediate would like to invite all community and family members out to our blacktop for a small presentation to thank our local First Responders. Please feel free to join us in singing and speaking about how thankful we are for their hard work and dedication to our community.
This 9 weeks our major topic of discussion is musical form. We will be utilizing listening activities, movement activities and vocal/percussion activities to practice and to gain a deeper understand of musical form.
For the first 9 weeks, I will be focusing and assessing the following- Applies knowledge of music concepts through singing and playing instruments M4GM.1a,c,d M4GM.2a,c,d; Sings in head voice OR plays with appropriate tone using dynamics and phrasing with and without accompaniment in songs of various cultures Reads and notates music M4GM.3a,b; Reads AND notates half, quarter, eighth, dotted half, whole notes and rests using traditional symbols in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter Describes and analyzes music M4GM.6a Accurately distinguishes simple formal structures - AB, ABA, rondo, Introduction, and Coda The Cobb County School District will implement Student Learning Objective Assessments (SLOs) during the 2015-2016 school year. These assessments consist of a pre-test in August/September and a post-test in April/May.
SLOs are subject-specific learning objectives that provide growth measures for student learning. Teams of Cobb County teachers from throughout the district developed the SLO assessments that we will administer this year. Our class will take the SLO assessments for Reading and Math. OR Our class will take the SLO assessments for Physical Education, Art, and Music. OR My 4th grade students will take the Advanced Learning Program SLO assessment. For the 2015-2016 school year, the SLO implementation requires teachers to use assessments to determine student growth over the course of the year. The results of these assessments ensure that students, teachers, and schools are moving toward a common vision of exemplary instruction and high levels of student academic growth. I am so proud of our 4th graders and how awesome they did at our performance. They are awesomely talented!
In class we are off to the races with Recorder. Some students are working hard to earn the Black Belt level. We are about to start an orff and drum unit to really get the last 9 weeks rockin'. And our students are off to the races to earn black belts this year. Learning how to read music through playing the recorders is something that many of our students enjoy.
Here are the belts for 4th graders White Belt- No. 16 High Dive Yellow Belt- No. 18 Apple for the Teacher Orange Belt- No. 24 French Fries Green Belt- No. 37 Stodola Pumpa Purple Belt- No. 41 Aura Lee Blue Belt- No. 43 Little Cabin in the Woods Red Belt- No. 45 Polly Wolly Doodle Brown Belt- No. 60 Bach Minuet Balck Please click the following link to practice our musical music at home. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0gCV6z7h3NZNy0xc01sTmEyQ2c&authuser=0 Here are the words
The Talent Show information will be sent home this week in Thursday folders. If you missed it, here it is.
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