Grade Four Year Plan

Month
September

October

Theme

Activities

Getting to Know You

Ms. Thorlaksons Expectations
(Incorporate waste and our world)
(Sep 7-30 7
classes)
Thanksgiving and Halloween (Oct 3- 31 7 classes)
-

Follow the Leader

Up the Ladder
Rhythm Game
Frere Jacques
Rig a Jig Jig
AB Form in Movement
Listen
Now All the Woods are Waking
Recorder Karate

Tah/ti-ti/tah-ah/tahah-ah-ah note and

rest review
Rounds and partner
songs (2 melodies
at once with the
same harmony)

R9 Beats and silences have specific

duration(ta/ti-ti/ta-a/ta-a-a-a)
H5 Two or more melodies can occur
simultaneously (rounds, partner songs,
descants)
M11 Move to round or cannon form
S14 Sing two-part rounds and simple
descants
S18 Sing partner and nonsense songs

Follow the Leader

Thanksgiving Round
5 rules for recorder success
Teach B
Goldilocks
Echo rhythm game (B, A, G,
separately and together)
Teach A
Oh We are Pirates
Red River Valley
Teach G
Shu-u-u
Recorder Karate
Old Tom White (white)
Au Clare de la Lune (Yellow)

Review 2/4, 3/4,

and 4/4 meter
Meter can change
within a piece
Tempo Terms:
ritardando,
accelerando,
allegro, and
andante

Follow the Leader

Let There be Peace on Earth
Oh We are Pirates
Au Clare de la Lune (Yellow)
Teach E
The Big Black Bug
My Paddle
Who has Seen the Wind?
(Orange)
Land of the Silver Birch
BAGE mad minute
Teach D
Mary Mac
Two Canadian Folk Songs
Jolly Old St. Nicholas (Green)

Introduce sixteenth
notes
Rondo form
(ABACA)
Legato/Staccato

R11 Beats may be grouped in 2s or 3s

R13 A time signature tells how beats are
grouped in a measure
RW19 Recognize 4/4 time signature
E12 Terms such as ritardando,
accelerando, allegro, and andante refer
to tempo
S21 Sing two and three part rounds and
descants
S22 Respond to changes in tempo,
dynamics, and mood while singing
H10 Melodies having the same harmonic
structure may be combined
R15 metre changes may occur within a
piece of music
R16 Duration concepts are extended to
include sixteenth notes
F9 Sections may be identified by letters
ABACA
E13 Legato and staccato are two terms
that indicate how music may be
performed
L20 Identify rondo form ABACA
RW24 Recognize sixteenth notes and
rests
S19 Continue vocal development (legato
and staccato)

November

Remembrance Day(Nov 1-23 7

classes)
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Concepts/Skill
s

Curriculum

December

Christmas and
Winter
Celebrations (Nov
28-Dec 23 8
classes)
Hanukah
Christmas
Secular
Kwanzaa
Winter Solstice
New Years Day

Follow the Leader

Here we come A Wassailing
Note Naming Game
BAGED mad minute
Jolly Old St. Nicholas (Green)
Christmas Bells
The Holly and the Ivy
Christmas Round
Sleigh Ride
Huron Carol

Introduce fa and
ti into solfege
training

S20 Extend the use of sol-fa training with

hand signals to include fa and ti
RW22 Extend the use of sol-fa training to
include fa and ti