Activities by Purpose Green Turtle Shells Principle purpose(s) Secondary purposes(s)
Activities by Purpose Green Turtle Shells Let’s Play Music DO is Home Turtle Shells Kit Kat Keyboard Bubble Hands Chords in Pieces Primary Chords song Spring Bees Pick a Bale o’ Cotton Horsey, Horsey Hurry, Hurry, Drive the Firetruck Row, Row, Row Your Boat Old Paint Solfeg Seafriends Sally Go ‘Round the Sun Halloween is Coming Blue Sky Hoedown Echo Edna Can’t Bug Me Johnny’s Hammers Bunny’s Birdhouse Jingle Bells The Farmer in the Dell Brown Jug Taking Baby Steps Principle purpose(s) Secondary purposes(s) Staff Notation Pattern identification Develop relative pitch Internalize sound of middle C Interval sound, notation, playing Keyboard geography Correct hand position Chord ear training through individual note study Primary chord ear training and function Classical form familiarity Major and minor tonality Solfeg patterning: (SLTD) Cadence patterning Solfeg syllables and hand sings Ear training Harmony singing through countermelody Play SFMRD Individual finger strength Red/Yellow chord transition Playing the red chord Ear training hearing layers of sound Harmony using canon Staff notation, identifying “Performing” as a group Major/minor chord Blue chord notation, playing Classical form familiarity Staff to keyboard relationship, Sight reading steps and skips Rhythm notation reading Rhythm pattern identification Yellow chord notation, playing Staff reading, staff position Red/yellow chord transition Red/ yellow and red/blue transition Cadence patterning (MRD) Anticipate the beat Notation of a baby step 119 Middle C notation Names of keys Finger numbers Audiation Introduce inversion concept Playing primary chords Primary chord notation Loud and soft dynamics Finger independence Pattern notation SFMRD Steady beat Playing as an ensemble Ear training hearing layers of sound Anticipating the beat Blue chord function Ear training Staccato and legato differentiation Solfeg pattern recognition C position Performing as an ensemble Quarter note and half note chords Middle C notation Ear training Self accompanying Work and ‘perform’ as a group Playing steps on the piano Activities by Purpose Yellow Arrows Let’s Play Music Principle purpose(s) Lullaby and Goodnight Gotta Shake How to Skip Oh When the Saints Go Marching In Don’t Put Your Trash Tinga Layo Staff notation Pattern identification Develop relative pitch Interval sound, notation, playing Familiarity with music alphabet Keyboard geography Correct hand position Finger numbers Play as part of an ensemble Harmony through a round Dotted quarter/eighth note pattern Independent finger strength Correct technique, position Prepare to play broken chord Solfeg patterning (SMD) Harmony through broken chords Classical form familiarity Solfeg patterning (SMD) Play chords from notation Follow given tempo Play in parallel motion Play major scale Introduce ‘rest’ Staff to keyboard relationship, Sight reading steps and skips Rhythm notation reading Rhythm pattern identification Chord stylizing & improvisation Play ‘rest’ Play skips from staff to keyboard Learn ‘downbeat’ Chord stylizing: marching chord Harmony through countermelody Chord stylizing: calypso beat Bug Scale March of the Gnomes The Wheels on the Bus Practice Every Day This Old Man Chamniamo Gogo Major scale: ‘tuck under’ Major/minor themes Solfeg pattern (SMD) Play 2 hands independently Add a chord to a melody Have fun and be silly! DO is Home Turtle Shells Music Alphabet Bubble Hands Snowflakes are Falling I’m an Indian Caterpillar Song Block and Broken Go to Sleep Pirate Ship Girls and Boys Love Somebody Hickory Dickory Dock Do Re Mi Old MacDonald Echo Edna Can’t Bug Me 191 Secondary purposes(s) Cadence patterning Solfeg syllables and hand sings Internalize sound of middle C Bass clef/left hand intervals Names of keys Introduce staff note names Independent finger strength Final ‘do’ for red chord resolution Playing 5ths Playing independent hand motion Middle C position Rhythmic pattern recognition/playing Finger independence Chord variations for improvising Major/minor themes Introduce ‘cross over’ Solfeg pattern recognition C position Performing as an ensemble Play on the downbeat Play on the downbeat Ear training, layers of sound Play on the downbeat Feel rhythmic ostinato Review bug rhythms Downbeat Read notes from staff Review function of primary chords
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