Grade Five Year Plan

Month

Theme

Activities

Concepts/Skills

Septembe
r

Getting to Know Canada

(Sep 7-30 7 classes)

Concentration
A Poor Lone Girl in Saskatchewan
The Pink Panther
The Capitals
Rufus Rustus (Partner)
Chicken (Partner)
Roll On, Columbia
An Apple A Day
Men of the Royal Mounted

Review sixteenth
notes/rests
Rounds and partner songs
(2 melodies at once)
Improvisation is part of
many forms of music

October

Thanksgiving and
Halloween (Oct 3-31 8
classes)

Follow the Leader

For Health and Strength
An Apple a Day
Review Recorder Basics
Red River Valley
My Paddle
Oh We are Pirates
The Big Black Bug
Shu-u-u
Note Naming Game
Land of the Silver Birch
BAGE mad minute
Skin and Bones
My Paddle (on recorder)
Follow the Leader
My Paddle (sung)
Land of the Silver Birch
Partner Song
Ballad of Frank Slide
Oh We Are Pirates
My Paddle (on recorder)
Putting together both My Paddles
Land of the Silver Birch with both
My Paddles
Teach D
Echo Game
Name/Play the Note Game
Sea Lion Woman
The Composer is Dead mini-unit

Review 2/4, , and 4/4

meter

November

Remembrance (Nov 1-23

7 classes)

Identify human voice

categories: soprano,
contralto, tenor, and
bass

Curriculum
R16 Duration concepts are
extended to include sixteenth
notes
RW24 Recognize sixteenth
notes and rests
H10 Melodies having the same
harmonic structure may be
combined (partner songs)
F11 Improvisation is part of
many forms of music
C13 Add original descants to
songs
R11 Beats may be grouped in
2s or 3s
R13 A time signature tells how
beats are grouped in a
measure
RW19 Recognize 4/4 time
signature

H11 Voices with different pitch

ranges can be combined to
create harmony
L25 Identify the human voice
categories: soprano, contralto,
tenor, bass
S25 Sing three and four part
rounds and two part soprano,
alto songs
RW31 Develop ability to read
parts while singing (soprano,
alto)

December

Christmas and Winter

Celebrations (Nov 28-Dec
23 8 classes)
(Incorporate Winter
celebration songs from
across Canada)

Follow the Leader

The Composer is Dead mini-unit
Christmas Round
Thank You for the Christmas
Christmas is Here
Partner song with the last two
Oh We Are Pirates
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Dans les Chantiers Nous
Hivernerons
Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like
Christmas
Auld Lang Syne

Introduce sight singing

using solfege knowledge

S24 Use sol-fa skills in reading

music and sight singing