The 1st and 2nd Grade Concert will be TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 2023 at 6:30 PM in the Josephine Tope Community Auditorium! Please plan on having your student there by 6:20 PM!
John Feierabend's First Steps in Music
In Kindergarten and First Grade students focus on a curriculum based on John Feierabend's "First Steps In Music".
Feierabend's philosophy is to create "tuneful, beatful, and artful" music students who can be independent musicians.
Each lesson allows for students to do a vocal warm, an echo song, independent and group singing on simple songs, improvisation (self created) songs about familiar things, movement to the form and expression of orchestral music, play instruments to orchestral music, and song stories.
Feierabend's philosophy is to create "tuneful, beatful, and artful" music students who can be independent musicians.
Each lesson allows for students to do a vocal warm, an echo song, independent and group singing on simple songs, improvisation (self created) songs about familiar things, movement to the form and expression of orchestral music, play instruments to orchestral music, and song stories.
1st Grade
Ask your student about the following songs and poems we are working on in music:
"Down by the Bay"
"Long-Legged Sailor"
"When I was One"
"Haul Away Joe"
"A Sailor Went to Sea"
"My Ship Sailed from China"
"Charlie Over the Ocean"
"it's Raining, It's Pouring"
"Wake Up You Lazy Bones"
"Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater"
"There Was an Old Woman"
"Our Gallant Ship/Penny Over the Water"
Self Creation Songs:
"This is My Singing Voice"
"My Birthday"
"Sing about the Fall"
Orchestral Music that we dance and play instruments to:
"Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium"
"Water Music - Allegro"
"Carnival of the Animals: Swans"
"Water Music - Minuet"
"Four Sea Interludes - Sunday Morning"
"Swan Lake: Spanish Dance"
"Down by the Bay"
"Long-Legged Sailor"
"When I was One"
"Haul Away Joe"
"A Sailor Went to Sea"
"My Ship Sailed from China"
"Charlie Over the Ocean"
"it's Raining, It's Pouring"
"Wake Up You Lazy Bones"
"Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater"
"There Was an Old Woman"
"Our Gallant Ship/Penny Over the Water"
Self Creation Songs:
"This is My Singing Voice"
"My Birthday"
"Sing about the Fall"
Orchestral Music that we dance and play instruments to:
"Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium"
"Water Music - Allegro"
"Carnival of the Animals: Swans"
"Water Music - Minuet"
"Four Sea Interludes - Sunday Morning"
"Swan Lake: Spanish Dance"