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Fourth Grade Music

Note: Fourth grade students are expected to bring a folder with clips and paper and a pencil to music class every time!

In fourth grade music classes we have to learn our music concepts and symbols so that we can play our recorders second semester!

· We will practice all our solfege syllables in the fall, starting by singing “Do, Re, Mi!”

· We will then learn to name the pitches on the staff, we need lots of practice with this!

· We will practice with reading and clapping/playing different rhythms from notation.

· We will learn about opera this year, which is also music theatre.

· We will study Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Bach, hopefully even Handel and Beethoven this year.

· We will be presenting T. C. Martin’s Winter Program, “Holiday Wishes”.

· Second semester we will get our recorders and learn to play songs together on them!

· We will continue to review orchestra instruments and their sounds so that we know something about them when we have to decide whether we want to study one in fifth grade!

Your child will be expected to keep up with his/her classwork and to make up work missed when absent. Please help your child with this responsibility, it is really good preparation for future school work.

Here is a picture of our fourth graders 2 years ago in “The Unity Tree”