Relate to other arts: Students will connect music to dance and theater. Performing: Students can perform for the class, at a concert, or be videotaped.Д¬omposing Students will create new music.ДЄnalyzing/Describing: Students will describe what the see and hear using musical terms.Д®valuate: Students will evaluate the elements of the music they hear and the moves they see. Notation: Students can notate their compositions, or read the compositions of others using traditional or non-traditional notation. Music Vocabulary Tempo, crescendo, forte, legato, etc., using body percussion to demonstrate and practice. World music/culture: Teach clave patterns, cascara, bell rhythms, Highlife, and other world music patterns with body percussion.

Melody Students can sing along with their rhythms Improvisation: Students take turns improvising new sounds and new patterns.Дynamics: Students use various dynamic changes to create original music. Students rehearse and perform these rhythms in groups and as solos. Meter: Perform body percussion in common time, triple meter, compound meter.Д®nsemble Skills. Steady beat: Gross motor movements enable kids to feel steady pulse much more easily that sax playing Timbre: use various sounds and different versions of the same move, will make a different sound Perform body percussions as a Symphony (a whole group working together) a Concerto ( a soloist with the group doing backup) a Concerto Grosso ( a small group doing the solo with the large group backing up) The possibilities are endless.

Form : Moving the various segments around, layering patterns, working in a round.

Music math creating a clapping symphany