Page 9 - First Note Teacher's Manual

Steady Beat • Keep a steady beat with bodies and an instrument

12 Western Rhythm Sticks Dr. Foster High-Low • Analyze songs and poems
American Piano Drum Mary Wore Her Red Descending • Sing and move bodies to show high and low sounds
Conductor • Create motions to the words of a song/rhyme
Shakers Dress • Compose using percussion instruments
Looby Loo

Improvise • Experience improvising on the piano

• Keep a steady beat with body and an instrument

13 African American Slide Whistle Apples, Peaches, Pears Steady Beat • Analyze songs and poems
Voice & Plums High-Low • Sing and move bodies to show high and low sounds
Harmony • Create motions to the words of a song/rhyme
Walk Daniel • Learn the months in a year and identify birth month

Kye Kye Kule Rhyme • Review Ghanan call & response song
• Experience voice and harmony from the African American

tradition

Steady Beat • Keep a steady beat with body and an instrument

14 Chinese Slide Whistle Starlight, Starbright High-Low • Use speaking and singing voice
Flautist Guitar Teddy Bear Ensemble • Analyze songs and poems
Flute Goodnight Accompany • Use bodies to show high and low pitches
• Create motions to the words of a song/rhyme

Lullaby • Experience the flute

15 Northeast Tambourine Apples, Peaches, Pears Steady Beat • Keep a steady beat with bodies and an instrument
American Shakers & Plums High-Low • Analyze songs and poems
Dulcimer Syllables • Recognize syllables
Rhythm Sticks Mary Wore Her Red • Review months in the year and identify birth month
Dress • Sing and move bodies to show high and low sounds

Dulcimer Goodnight Accompany • Create motions to the words of a song/rhyme
Walk Daniel • Experience the Appalachian dulcimer

Drum Rhythm Steady Beat • Keep a steady beat with bodies and an instrument
• Analyze songs and poems
16 American Jazz: Sticks Violin My Father Was A High-Low • Sing and move bodies to show high and low sounds
Trumpet Slide Whistle Butcher Rhyme • Create motions to the words of a song/rhyme
Flugelhorn Rhythm • Recognize rhythmic patterns
Step Bells This Old Man • Experience the jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, and different
Trumpet Looby Loo

Flugelhorn Repeat mutes that change the sound