Fifth Grade Outline

Welcome to the Fifth Grade page! Here you will find our yearly outline for Music class!

First Quarter Focus: Rhythm

Unit 1: Note and Rest Names

Concepts: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, connecting eighth notes, single eighth, connecting sixteenth, single sixteenth, whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth rest

Unit 2: Note and Rest Values

Concepts: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, connecting eighth notes, single eighth, connecting sixteenth, single sixteenth, whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth rest

Unit 3: Time Signature

Concepts: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8 Rhythm Counts

Unit 4: Rhythm Composition

Concept: Review

Second Quarter Focus: Melody

Unit 1: Solfege, Singing, Listening

Concepts: Major Scale, Minor Scale, Singing Technique, Harmony, 3-part, 4-part

Unit 2: Treble Clef and Bass Clef

Concepts: Treble: E, G, B, D, F and F, A, C, E, Bass: G, B, D, F, A and A, C, E, G

Unit 3: Recorder

Concepts: Technique, Anaylsis, Pitches, Performance

Third Quarter Focus: Music Understanding

Unit 1: Sight-Reading

Concepts: Rhythmic Patterns

Unit 2: Sight-Reading

Concept: Melodic Patterns

Unit 3: Improvisation

Concept: Tempo, Time Signautures

Unit 3: Review

Concept: Applying Third Quarter Concepts in Performance

Fourth Quarter Focus: Music Notation

Unit 1: Composition (Finale Project)

Concepts: Melodic and Rhythmic

Unit 2: Continue Composition

Concept: Dynamics

Unit 3: Continue Composition

Concept: Performance

Unit 4: End of the Year

Concept: Combination of All