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Mandy Stover
KNOLLWOOD ELEMENTARY
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Greetings Knollwood and Mt. Ulla Parents/Students,

My name is Mrs. Stover and I am the new music teacher for Knollwood Elementary on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.  I teach music at Mt. Ulla Elementary every Wednesday.  This is my eighth year of teaching music to elementary school students and I am very excited to be in Rowan County!  Below are a few things that we will be covering in music from 10-13-09 to 11-15-09:



Kindergarten and 1st Grade
  • Move to show the steady beat at different tempos
  • Recognize the difference between beat and rhythm
  • Identify high, low, short, and long sounds
  • Walk, skip, and gallop to the beat
  • Sing songs about animals, Autumn, colors, counting, and in different languages
  • Play unpitched instruments along with the beat
  • Vocabulary: upwards, downwards, tempo, beat, rhythm, high, low, long, short, flute, and tuba
2nd and 3rd Grade
  • Identify forms in music
  • Create choreography to a song
  • Read and play rhythm patterns containing quarter notes, eighth notes, half notes, and quarter rests
  • Sing do, re, mi, and la
  • Move to show strong beats in 2/4 and 3/4
  • Sing songs about butterflys, community helping, Autumn
  • Vocabulary: treble clef, meter signature, form, section, choreography, bar lines, measure, staff, and counter melody 
4th and 5th Grade
  •  Perform quarter notes, eighth notes, half notes, sixteenth note patterns, dotted quarter note patterns and quarter rests from notation
  • read and sing pentatonic melodies
  • Sing songs from NC and other countries
  • Perform rhythms with 3 and 4 sounds to a beat
  • Vocabulary: rhythm, beat, canon, round, lullabies, petatonic scale, tonal center, ledgerlines, woodwinds, octave, spiritual, range, key, triple meter, 3/4 meter, tie, harmony, and ensemble 


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