6M

6M February 2011 Week 1 We will be setting up our music portfolios by creating four sections (Entry, Terms, Theory & Exit). Music portfolios will remain in the music room at all times. We will also begin our first unit, Canadian Music from Coast to Coast. We will also begin researching our first assignment, Do you have a Canadian on your iPod?, in the P21 room. One of our entry cards will help us understand how music surrounds our daily lives; we will draft a survey on music in our lives and build graphs to visualize our findings. Week 2 We will continue with our unit of Canadian Music from Coast to Coast by listening to examples of music from the West Coast and Northern Canada. Our iPod assignment is due on Friday. We will also be beginning our unit on dance and vocals. We will begin learning a choreographed dance to Firework by Kate Perry and practice sustaining notes on pitch while enunciating lyrics clearly. Week 3 We will conclude our unit of Canadian Music from Coast to Coast by discussing the EMCAs. We will introduce a new project that will allow us to demonstrate what we have learned about dance and vocals (FMS Idol). We will be learning our vocal range and how to harmonize as a group as well as how to perform classical dances (waltz). Week 4 We will conclude the month preparing for FMS Idol and will also begin to conclude our work with dance and vocals. As we transition, we will expand our musical focus from Canada to the world. We will begin a percussion unit with a class project of creating rain sticks. Supplies needed will be paint, wrapping paper rolls, straws/stir sticks, and rice.