Long Term Plans:

Musical concepts and skills become more nuanced and intricate; so all topics are continually spiraled and developed.

Kinder Music Long Term Plan March/April 2022

Unit Core Activities Specifics Standards Supplies
Knowledge
Unit: Class Culture Chants: -Friends Friends Friends
-Got it Got it/Got it Good
Trying new things -Joy -Repeat after me MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore
-Student
and working as a -Hands on Top and experience music concepts (such
Autonomy -Macaroni Cheese
team! -Collaboration Navigating Entrance Chant:"Find a Square and Take a Seat" as beat and melodic contour).
(5 instructional days, 4 Classroom Carpet Squares:
weeks) Physical Staying in assigned seats for class and freeze
MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate
Environment dance
Library: When Music class is “just too much” musical ideas (such as movements or
Calm Down: When life is “just too much”
motives).
Audiate! Welcome to Major Tonality (Duple Meter, familiar patterns)
Music Class

Dorian Tune Dorian Tonality (Triple Meter, familiar patterns)

MU:Pr4.1.Ka With guidance,
Rhythm Time!) Duple and Triple A/A (macro micro) demonstrate and state personal
Songs! Dorian Dorian Tonality (Triple Meter, familiar patterns) interest in varied musical selections. Ukulele
Tune

Well I Want Major Tonality (Duple Meter, basic harmonic Rainbow

structure)
MU:Pr4.3.Ka With guidance, Mallets
to Be
demonstrate awareness of expressive
Strong
(Major) qualities (such as voice quality, Egg Shakers
dynamics, and tempo) that support the
Student TBD creators’ expressive intent Synth
Composed
Song for
Promotion
Teamwork! Pass the Evaluating actions of a "good teammate"
MU:Pr6.1.Ka With guidance, perform
(growing awareness of one's own actions)
Egg
music with expression.
Body
Percussion Coming together as a team to work as one
(growing awareness of other teammates
actions)

Instruments Body
Percussion,
Rainbow
Mallets, Egg
Shakers
First Grade Music Long Term Plan March/April 2022
Unit Core Knowledge Activities Power Standards Supplies

Unit: Class Culture Fair is not Equal

-Joy Leadership
Trying new things and Delayed Consequences MU:Cr1.1b With limited guidance, generate
-Student Autonomy
working as a team! -Collaboration
How to Solve Problems musical ideas in multiple tonalities (such as
Empathy
(5 instructional days, 4 major and minor) and meters (such as duple
weeks) Systems & Routines Entrance/Exit
(how will class work) Carpet and triple).
Instruments
Reflection Space
Mindfulness Breathing MU:Pr4.2.1a With limited guidance,
demonstrate knowledge of music concepts Ukulele
(such as beat and melodic contour) in music
Audiate! Music Class Rules (Major)
Dorian Tune (Dorian) from a variety of cultures selected for Rainbow Mallets
performance.
Chanting (duple & triple)
Rhythm Time: Repeating and Egg Shakers
improving patterns

Songs Music Class Rules (Major) Synth

Dorian Tune (Dorian)
Well I Want to Be Strong (Major)

Move Continuous flow, Free,

Beginning Beat

Teamwork Pass the Egg

Body Percussion
Instruments Body percussion, rainbow
mallets, boomwhackers,
Egg Shakers

Second Grade Music Long Term Plan March/April 2022

Unit Core Knowledge Activities Power Standards Supplies
Unit: Class Culture Fair is not Equal MU:Cr1.1.2b Generate musical patterns and ideas within
-Joy Leadership the context of a given tonality (such as major and minor)
Trying new things and Delayed Consequences
-Student Autonomy and meter (such as duple and triple).
first class song! -Collaboration
How to Solve Problems
Empathy
(5 instructional days, 4 MU:Pr4.2.2a Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts
weeks) Systems & Routines Entrance/Exit
(how will class work) Carpet (such as tonality and meter) in music from a variety of
Instruments cultures selected for performance.
Reflection Space
Mindfulness Breathing

Ukulele
Audiate! Music Class Rules (Major)
Dorian Tune (Dorian)
Rainbow Mallets
Chanting (duple & triple)
Rhythm Time: Repeating and
improving patterns Steel Drums

Songs Welcome Song (Major)

Synth
Dorian Tune (Dorian)
Well I Want to Be Strong (Major)
Student-composed Steel Drum
Tune

Move Continuous flow, Free, Beat

Instruments Steel Drum, Body Percussion

Third Grade Music Long Term Plan March/April 2022
Unit Core Knowledge Activities Power Standards Supplies

Unit: Class Culture Fair is not Equal MU:Cr1.1.3b Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms
-Joy Leadership and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.
Honing in our craft! Delayed Consequences
-Student Autonomy
(5 instructional days, 4 How to Solve Problems (Giving
-Collaboration and Receiving Feedback)
weeks)
Empathy
Systems & Routines Entrance/Exit
(how will class work) Carpet Steel Drums
Instruments
Reflection Space Rhythm Section
Mindfulness Breathing
(Bass, Guitar, Keys,
Drums, Auxiliary
Audiate! Voice exploration Percussion)
Whole Pattern (A/A)

Chanting (duple & triple, A/A)

Student Composed
Songs Student Composed Songs Songs

Move Student-led dance groups

Instruments Rhythm Section, Steel Drums,

Auxiliary Percussion

Fourth Grade Music Long Term Plan March/April 2022

Unit Core Knowledge Activities Power Standards Supplies

Unit: Class Culture Fair is not Equal MU:Cr1.1.3b Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms
-Joy Leadership and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.
Honing in our craft! Delayed Consequences Steel Drums
-Student Autonomy
(5 instructional days, 4 How to Solve Problems (Giving
-Collaboration and Receiving Feedback)
weeks) Rhythm Section
Empathy
(Bass, Guitar, Keys,
Systems & Routines Entrance/Exit Drums, Auxiliary
(how will class work) Carpet
Instruments Percussion)
Reflection Space
Mindfulness Breathing
Student Composed
Songs
Audiate! Voice exploration
Whole Pattern (A/A)

Chanting (duple & triple, A/A)

Songs Student Composed Songs

Move Student-led dance groups

Instruments Rhythm Section, Steel Drums,

Auxiliary Percussion
Unit:
(4 weeks, 5 classes)
Unit Summary
The first unit of music class for all grades focuses on classroom culture and routines, including self, others and instrument care, working hard, autonomy, consequences,
students solving their own problems and empathy. Musically:
K Kinder music students explore their voice, engaging in new tonalities, practicing rhythmic patterns, and assessing what it means to be a team.
1 First grade music students explore their voice, audiate and sing the resting tone and whole patterns in major and duple. First graders explore what it means to be and act as a team.
2 Second grade music students audiate and sing whole patterns in major, minor, dorian as well as duple and triple using syllables (verbal association). Students will start with first class compositions on the
steel drums.
3 Third grade music students will continue to develop their class composed tunes, focusing on applying the feedback cycle to improve their songs.
4 Fourth grade music students will continue to develop their class composed tunes, focusing on applying the feedback cycle to improve their songs.

Standards
Kinder First Second Third Fourth

MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance,
explore and experience music
concepts (such as beat and
melodic contour).
MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance,
generate musical ideas (such as
movements or motives).
MU:Pr4.1.Ka With guidance,
demonstrate and state personal
interest in varied musical
selections.
MU:Pr4.3.Ka With guidance,
demonstrate awareness of
expressive qualities (such as
voice quality, dynamics, and
tempo) that support the
creators’ expressive intent
MU:Pr6.1.Ka With guidance,
perform music with expression.
MU:Cr1.1b With limited
guidance, generate musical ideas
in multiple tonalities (such as
major and minor) and meters
(such as duple and triple).
MU:Pr4.2.1a With limited
guidance, demonstrate
knowledge of music concepts
(such as beat and melodic
contour) in music from a variety
of cultures selected for
performance.
MU:Cr1.1.2b Generate musical MU:Cr1.1.3b Generate musical MU:Cr1.1.3b Generate musical
patterns and ideas within the ideas (such as rhythms and ideas (such as rhythms and
context of a given tonality (such melodies) within a given tonality melodies) within a given tonality
as major and minor) and meter and/or meter. and/or meter.
(such as duple and triple).
MU:Pr4.2.2a Demonstrate
knowledge of music concepts
(such as tonality and meter) in
music from a variety of cultures
selected for performance.
Performance Tasks/Assessments
Kinder Resting Tone: Major, Dorian (yes or no); Verbal Expression of What it Means to be a Good Teammate, Rating of Collective Class Teamwork
SLA – Resting Tone, Whole Pattern: Major, Dorian, duple (yes or no); Verbal Expression of What it Means to be a Good Teammate, Rating of Collective Class
First Teamwork
SLA - Verbal Association Whole Pattern: Major, Minor, Dorian, duple, triple (yes or no); Works with Class to Create First Composition (Participates, Offers and
Second Takes Feedback, etc.)
Third SLA – Verbal Association: Tonality, Function, Meter (yes or no); Works with Classmates to Develop Class Tunes (Participates, Offers and Takes Feedback, etc.)
SLA -Generalization: Whole Pattern, Tonality, Function, Meter (yes or no); Works with Classmates to Develop Class Tunes (Participates, Offers and Takes
Fourth Feedback, etc.)

MaterialsAdditional Resources
Music Class Rules, Welcome to Music Class –Julius Brown
Dorian Tune, Goodbye Song–Rebecca Mancuso
Jump Right In (for tonal patterns)-- Chris Azzara and Michael Martin
A Contemporary Music Learning Theory (E. Gordon)
Songs and Chants without Words (E. Gordon)
Rainbow Mallets
Egg Shakers
SUPPLEMENTAL
MATERIALS
(Tunes)
Dorian Tune (Self-Composed):
Goodbye Song (Self-Composed):
I Want To Be Strong (Folk Song):