Introducing the Fun Music Company Grade 6 Music Curriculum
What is the Fun Music Company Grade Six Music Curriculum?
The Fun Music Company Grade 6 music curriculum is a complete music program for sixth grade.
It is specifically designed to meet curriculum requirements, while at the same time making lessons engaging and fun for children.
It does this by structuring activities around the four areas commonly found in every music curriculum in the world: SKILLS, SING & PLAY, COMPOSE and CONNECT.
Benefits of the Fun Music Company Grade Six Music Curriculum
Structured to make it easy to cover your grade 6 curriculum requirements with the minimum of preparation time.
Includes step-by-step videos for you to play in the classroom. Even if you aren’t experienced teaching an activity, all you need to do is play the video and follow the instructions.
Has engaging and fun songs to sing and play, plus a complete composition program which will inspire and motivate children to make music class the best part of their day!
Easy to use with no software to install. All you need is a projector or video screen attached to a computer with internet access. Just login to the members’ area, select the module you want to work with and away you go!
The very first requirement of the Australian curriculum for Grade six is develop listening/aural skills and skills for manipulating elements of music, and there are similar requirements in every major curriculum in the world.
This is what this collection of activities and exercises is designed to do. Using simple warmup activities, students will improve their listening and aural skills.
They will control and manipulate the elements of music such as dynamics and tempo to create expressive effects.
Aural Rhythm and Singing Activities
As in earlier grades, a fundamental part of music instruction is the ability to hear and then reproduce a sound.
Students start with clapping back a pattern. Then, singing back a pattern.
Students will then experience a range of more advanced aural skills activities such as note identification and rhythm pattern games.
Control of the elements of music
Students will do a range of activities designed to help them manipulate and control the elements of music. Dynamics, tempo, pitch and rhythm are all developed in these exercises.
Music Theory Worksheets with Explainer Videos
An important skill to develop in grade six is an awareness of music notation.
Covering only the necessary information, these music theory worksheets provide exactly what is needed for the grade six music curriculum.
An explainer video is included which covers all the musical concepts in the worksheet. Experienced teachers can teach this content themselves and skip straight to the worksheet.
Click for sample explainer video:
Click for sample worksheet:
The SING & PLAY unit in the Grade 6 music curriculum includes two exciting elements:
Marimba Band
Ever want to get grade 6 students to play music and love every minute of it?
Well, that’s impossible. They are year 6s after all!
Still, this the next, best thing. Music that they will enjoy, that they can play, and that will cover the curriculum in a fun way.
MARIMBA BAND is a collection of fun tuned percussion pieces that year 6 students will really enjoy.
Do you have to have marimbas? NO!
These pieces will work with whatever tuned percussion instruments you happen to have. If you call it “marimba band” with grade 6, then that can differentiate it from the xylophone pieces that younger grades are working on.
Every part can be learnt individually.
Students will learn by rote, as the pieces are made up from repeated patterns.
Animations on the screen will help the students find their notes.
A bass part example:
A full score example:
Every piece uses a familiar pattern.
There are three parts: Bass, Harmony and Melody.
Each part is designed to fit within one octave of an instrument. This means that many students can share the marimbas you have. If you have a three octave marimba, three students can play it.
As with all our other materials, we provide complete tutorials for the students to learn the parts.
A grade 6 tutorial video:
A grade 6 ensemble:
Students develop through the pieces, and are able to learn quite complex parts after a while.
As well as MARIMBA BAND, Grade 6 also includes:
Bucket Drumming
There is a difficult truth facing everyone teaching general music at this level:
Sometimes students come in with little or no musical experience, while in the same class there can be those who have been playing an instrument since they were three years old!
How can you provide activities that meet the needs of students with little or NO musical experience, while still providing something for those who have learnt music for several years?
One answer is BUCKET DRUMMING.
Because students can follow the animations and play these pieces with little or no musical experience. At the same time, students with musical experience can shape the musical elements, learn about the composition and form, and add improvisation.
Animations with real notation AND “dropping balls”
The animations in this unit feature “dropping balls”, similar to a video game.
Those without musical experience can follow them and play the piece with relatively little instruction.
There is also real music notation, allowing the musicians in the class to feel this is a real musical activity, and focus on the musical elements they are learning.
Click here for a sample from Grade 6:
Optional tutorials all included
For every piece we have provided all the essential learning in the form of tutorial videos.
Experienced teachers will be able to skip many of these videos, and skip straight to the exercise animations.
However, for those teachers who aren’t familiar with the material the videos can be played in class as needed.
In the COMPOSE unit of Grade 6 children will work with technology and real instruments to record and notate their own compositions.
We use simple and free software solutions, suitable to whatever devices you have available for your students to use.
Students begin with improvisation, then learn to record and notate their improvisation patterns using notation and technology.
Click through some of the activities in this unit:
In the CONNECT unit of Grade 6 students will listen to a wide variety of music from classical, through to jazz, blues and rock.
Through listening to the music in this unit children will identify purpose and meaning in music and discover how the elements of music are used to convey these meanings.
Click through some of the lesson activities in this unit:
What this program is really worth.
This program is unique. It is a complete prepared program of lessons for grade six music classes.
You show up, click the lesson you’re up to, and teach.
If you only got the songs, would it be worth it?
Many teachers have told us that their students LOVE the bucket drumming in this program, and that this program is worth it for that element alone.
And other teachers have said that the marimba band songs are so popular in their classes that it has transformed their teaching.
In this program, you’ll get BOTH. So you have two different ways to reach your students.
If you only got the COMPOSING projects, would it be worth it?
If you only got the LISTENING program, would it be worth it?
Some teachers are running band or choir programs, and so therefore have the practical side of their lessons covered. For them, they really appreciate having the COMPOSE projects set out in a logical, practical way for grade six.
Others are so busy they don’t have time to find listening examples for their classes. For them, the CONNECT listening program which covers all the essential elements and gives them a step-by-step program is invaluable.
Composing and listening represent 50% of the curriculum.
Even if you have the practical side covered with other things, how much would it be worth to you to have those elements of the curriculum just covered?
Here’s everything you get access to today:
MARIMBA BAND program, with tutorials and play-along videos.
Complete SKILLS development program with rhythm, singing and listening.
BUCKET DRUMMING program with animations and tutorials
20 Complete COMPOSE lessons for learning the fundamentals of music.
Complete CONNECT listening program on a variety of musical styles.
All of this content pre-programmed into 40 lessons, set and ready to go!
Get this single grade now:
$199 / year
Package to save!
You can purchase a membership to individual grades, however did you know that you can get access to the complete Fun Music Company Curriculum program in an annual or monthly membership for less than $20 per week?