1. Welcome to W.R. Hatfield Music Department

2. Who Is a Music Teacher? Her name is Mrs. Naoko Harada She is from Osaka, Japan (She visited her family in Japan this summer!) She is married and has three cats. She lives in Keller. She is a singer. Her favorite things to do… –Gardening –Going to Symphony Orchestra, Operas, or Musicals. –Teaching herself to play Ukulele –Spending time with her husband –Shopping

3. What we are going to do in music class? Singing Playing recorder (only 4 th and 5 th graders) Movement Locomotor and Non-locomotor skills Folk Dance Body Percussion Chanting Playing Orff Instruments (introducing in 1 st grade after Christmas through 5 th grade) Playing more instruments - pitched and unpitched instruments Music Field Trip to Bass Performance Hall Distance Learning through Bass Performance Hall

4. About W.R. Hatfield Choir We are very active! PTO Music Programs in December and May Holiday in the Park at Six Flags Over Texas? Visit Longmeadow Healthcare in December Cluster District Concert at Pike Middle School Concerts for school

5. What will each grade level learn in Music Department this year?  Kindergarten  Echo singing  Steady beat  Locomotor/Non-locomotor movement  Loud/Soft  Fast/Slow  Playing unpictched instruments  Voices – Speaking, Whispering, Singing, Shouting  Solfege – Sol and Mi  Rhythm

6. Continue…  1 st Grade  Environment Sound  Steady beat  Identify instruments from woodwind, percussion, brass, and string family. “Carnival of the Animals”  High/Low  Fast/Slow  Loud/Soft  Solfege – Sol, Mi, La, and preparing Do (Tonic)  Playing unpitched instruments  Start playing Orff Instruments (Xylophone, Glockenspiel, and Metalophone).  Rhythm  1 st grade will have a music program!

7. Continue…  2 nd Grade  Group/Independent Sinign or playing  Rhythm  Solfege – Sol, Mi, La, Do on 5 lines  AB and ABA form  Loud (f) and Soft (p)  Music Notes  Composer – Ludwig van Beethoven  Review percussion Family

8. Continue…  3 rd Grade  Orchestra – focus on Woodwind and Brass Family  AB and ABA form  Solfege – S,L,M,R,D  Orff Instruments – Ostinato, simple bordun, C pentatonic.  Verse and Refrain  Round Song  Dynamics – mp (mezzo piano) and mf (mezzo forte)  Composer – Tchaikovsky “March” from the Nutcracker  Composer – Strauss “Waltz”  4 beat and 8 beat patterns  4 beat and 8 beast dictation  Syncopa

9. Continue…  4 th Grade  Review Orchestra – String, Woodwind and Percussion family  Playing Recorder!  Music Notes  Solfege – L,S,D,R,M,D’ (Pentatonic) and introducing F and T  8 beat patterns  8 beat dictation  Orff Instruments – C, F, and G pentatonic, Ostinato, Bordun  Musical forms – AB, ABA, Rondo  Duple and Triple meter  Composer – Aaron Copland  Composer – Giaccino Rossini “Opera”  Texas Music  Voices – Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass

10. Continue…  5 th Grade  Review - 4 families in the Orchestra  Musical forms  Recorder and Orff Instruments  Composers  Gershwin  Bach  Handel  Jazz  Music notes and rests  16 beat pattern  16 beat dictation  Theme and Variation  Music Terms – Ex. Slur, legato, staccato, accents, farmata, D.C. al fine, or D.C. al coda)