RESOURCES: Various folk song books, Share the Music textbooks, Orff and Kodaly method books and materials from various workshops
I. First Nine Weeks
A. Review Rhythms
1. quarter note and rest
2. half note and rest
3. whole note and rest
4. eighth notes, eighth note and rest
5. dotted half note
6. sixteenth notes
B. Music reading skills
1. bar line
2. measure
3. double bar line
4. repeat sign
5. time signature
C. Change counting from syllables to numbers
D. Teach anacrusis
E. Practice rhythmic dictation
F. Review of Pentatonic Scale
1. So Mi
2. So Mi La
3. So Mi La Do
4. Mi Re Do
5. Do Re Mi So La
G. Practice melodic dictation