A Thoughtful and Engaging Music Curriculum by Don Dupont and Brian Hiller.
The goal of this series is to provide curriculum tools and resources to teach skills and concepts in an aesthetic and creative class environment.Repertoire and activities to teach elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, texture, and timbre are carefully selected and sequenced to allow the concepts to spiral and build with each new piece. Book includes lesson plans and songs, and CD-ROM has colorful visual aids to project or print. Spiral Paperback & CD-ROM
Kindergarten sets the stage for joyful music explorations throughout school. Singing games, movement and dance, differentiating speak/sing voices, discovering timbres of instruments, learning to distinguish monophonic and polyphonic music, keeping a steady beat are all part of this fun stage. 28 songs with lesson plans and assessment.
Grade 1 students begin linking words and music aided by repetition, rhyme and pattern, learn to differentiate steady beat and rhythm, discover quarter notes/rests and double eighths, manipulate them to poems, rhymes and story songs, and transfer the rhythms to percussion. 27 songs
