Welcome to W'R' Hatfield Music Department

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Welcome to W.R. Hatfield Music Department
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Who Is a Music Teacher?

• Her name is Mrs. Naoko Harada
• She is from Osaka, Japan (She visited her family
  in Japan this summer!)
• She is married and has three cats.
• She lives in Keller.
• She is a singer.
• Her favorite things to do
• Gardening
• Going to Symphony Orchestra, Operas, or Musicals.
  
• Teaching herself to play Ukulele
• Spending time with her husband
• Shopping

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What we are going to do in music class?

• Singing
• Playing recorder (only 4th and 5th graders)
• Movement
• Locomotor and Non-locomotor skills
• Folk Dance
• Body Percussion
• Chanting
• Playing Orff Instruments (introducing in 1st
  grade after Christmas through 5th grade)
• Playing more instruments - pitched and unpitched
  instruments
• Music Field Trip to Bass Performance Hall
• Distance Learning through Bass Performance Hall

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About W.R. Hatfield Choir

• We are very active!
• PTO Music Programs in December and May
• Holiday in the Park at Six Flags Over Texas?
• Visit Longmeadow Healthcare in December
• Cluster District Concert at Pike Middle School
• Concerts for school

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What will each grade level learn in Music
Department this year?

• Kindergarten
• Echo singing
• Steady beat
• Locomotor/Non-locomotor movement
• Loud/Soft
• Fast/Slow
• Playing unpictched instruments
• Voices Speaking, Whispering, Singing, Shouting
• Solfege Sol and Mi
• Rhythm

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• 1st Grade
• Environment Sound
• Steady beat
• Identify instruments from woodwind, percussion,
  brass, and string family. Carnival of the
  Animals
• High/Low
• Fast/Slow
• Loud/Soft
• Solfege Sol, Mi, La, and preparing Do (Tonic)
• Playing unpitched instruments
• Start playing Orff Instruments (Xylophone,
  Glockenspiel, and Metalophone).
• Rhythm
• 1st grade will have a music program!

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• 2nd Grade
• Group/Independent Sinign or playing
• Rhythm
• Solfege Sol, Mi, La, Do on 5 lines
• AB and ABA form
• Loud (f) and Soft (p)
• Music Notes
• Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
• Review percussion Family

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• 3rd Grade
• Orchestra focus on Woodwind and Brass Family
• AB and ABA form
• Solfege S,L,M,R,D
• Orff Instruments Ostinato, simple bordun, C
  pentatonic.
• Verse and Refrain
• Round Song
• Dynamics mp (mezzo piano) and mf (mezzo forte)
• Composer Tchaikovsky March from the
  Nutcracker
• Composer Strauss Waltz
• 4 beat and 8 beat patterns
• 4 beat and 8 beast dictation
• Syncopa

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• 4th Grade
• Review Orchestra String, Woodwind and
  Percussion family
• Playing Recorder!
• Music Notes
• Solfege L,S,D,R,M,D (Pentatonic) and
  introducing F and T
• 8 beat patterns
• 8 beat dictation
• Orff Instruments C, F, and G pentatonic,
  Ostinato, Bordun
• Musical forms AB, ABA, Rondo
• Duple and Triple meter
• Composer Aaron Copland
• Composer Giaccino Rossini Opera
• Texas Music
• Voices Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass

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• 5th Grade
• Review - 4 families in the Orchestra
• Musical forms
• Recorder and Orff Instruments
• Composers
• Gershwin
• Bach
• Handel
• Jazz
• Music notes and rests
• 16 beat pattern
• 16 beat dictation
• Theme and Variation
• Music Terms Ex. Slur, legato, staccato,
  accents, farmata, D.C. al fine, or D.C. al coda)