This ongoing course is a weekly exercise in musical fluency at a beginning level.  Two new folk songs will be introduced each week.  One song will serve as material for solfege learning, xylophone playing, and note reading.  The other songs will be more fun to sing and will have a game associated with it that will be played at the end of class.  Each lesson will follow a five-part structure: playback/performance of last week's song (optional), xylophone and staff geography (determined by that week's song), solfege (c major) and song learning, rhythm reading and singing and interactive games.  In rhythm, students will clap back rhythms using ta/ti solemnization.  Most classes will close with an interactive game that is played while we sing that week's second song.   

Prerequisite:  Students should know how to read to take this class.  This class is the same level as my beginning Kodaly class, but there is less focus on singing and more focus on xylophone playing, so songs will be learned in the key of C.  Additionally, concepts are not scaffolded to allow for the ongoing format.  All notes for each week's songs are taught that week.  All rhythms will use the same simple note values.   

Curriculum: 
Sept. 12: C, D, E "Hot Cross buns," "Go Round the Mountain"
Sept. 19: D, E, G, A "Great Big House," "Whose Bag Has My Gold Ring?"
Sept. 26: C, E, G "Fuzzy Wuzzy,"  "Mouse, Mousie"
Oct. 3: E, G, A "Engine, Engine," "Lucy Locket"
Oct. 10: C, D, E, G "Rain Come Wet Me" "Here Comes Bluebird"
Oct. 17: C, D, E, G, A  "Grizzly Bear" "Seminole Duck Dance"
Oct. 24: E, G, A "Bounce High,"  "Icka Backa Soda Cracker" 
Oct.  31: E, G "Fall is Here," "Old Mother Witch"
Nov. 7: C, D, E, G "Deedle Deedle Dumpling" "Tea Without Sugar"