My Music Journal Music Teaching Method For Fourth Grade

Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards, and it has been adopted in many states across the United States. The music textbook for Fourth Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook. The teacher receives a curriculum outline and approximately 150 questions for Fourth Grade assessments.Students gradually learn about rhythm, melody, tempo, tone color, dynamics, forms, harmony, texture, and style in each music textbook of My Music Journal K-8. In addition, students learn about music composers, music of other countries, orchestra instruments, sight-sing solfege, compose short melodies and rhythms, write music notation. Each textbook begins with a review of the previous years musical concepts to bring students up to speed.Check out the Table of Contents. Each musical concept, such as Rhythm, Melody, Tone Color, Tempo, Dynamics, Forms, e.t.c, has a set number of lessons. There are 36 lessons, which correlate to the 36 weeks of a school year.In this textbook, students will expand upon their previously learned knowledge of time signatures and meters, studying the differences in 2s, 3s, 4s, common time, and cut time, and learning to recognize these from both visual and audio standpoints. Students will learn the concepts of syncopation, upbeat, downbeat, triplets, ties, and slurs, and will summarize this knowledge with that of notes and beats to fully understand the concept of rhythms and beats. This textbook will teach the concepts of octave, phrase, and melodic contour, as well as learning to draw the melodic contour of a phrase.Students will be able to fully distinguish the difference between major and minor keys and chords, and will apply their knowledge of melodies by playing on classroom instruments, such as a recorder, from a score. Students will continue their education on musical symbols and markings, culminating in the ability to play simple pieces from a score. Basic chord patterns, such as I-V and I-IV-V, will be taught and students will participate in experimenting with these patterns to create musical works.