Introducing the Fun Music Company Curriculum Grade 4
What is the Fun Music Company Grade Four Music Curriculum?
The Fun Music Company grade four music curriculum is a complete music program for Primary or Elementary general music classes.
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.
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This grade four music curriculum is designed so that teachers do not have to plan individual lessons.
You simply click the lesson you’re up to, have a quick review of the content, and then click start.
All lesson content and resources required are set and ready to go!
Benefits of the Grade Four Music Curriculum
Structured to make it easy to cover your curriculum requirements for grade four music lessons.
Includes step-by-step videos for you to play in the classroom, so 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!
Students at grade four level need to develop their skills in listening and singing and playing instruments.
This unit is designed to do that, in an easy and fun way.
This unit contains simple warm up exercises, which are usually used at the start of lessons.
Rhythm development
In grade four, students will develop their rhythm skills with a variety of exercises.
Students will begin with echo rhythm, where they echo pattern played by the teacher or the recorded track.
Students will also do rhythm pattern variation, where they will use the elements of music to vary a given rhythm.
They will also love the poison rhythm game, where they will echo rhyhms except if the ‘poison’ rhythm is played.
Pitch development
In this grade students will continue to develop their pitch awareness.
They will sing simple phrases in echo singing.
They will learn pitch control with the pitch roller coasters.
They will identify notes with the note guessing games.
Breathing
Effective breath control is not just a musical skill, its a life skill!
Students will learn to breathe from the diaphragm which will help them with singing and playing wind instruments.
Theory worksheets with explainer videos
In this grade, students need to begin to connect their learning with notation.
Therefore this grade includes a series of music theory worksheets, aligned to the curriculum requirements.
To assist the teacher we provide an explainer video for each worksheet, explaining the underlying concepts.
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The Fun Music Company SING & PLAY unit for Grade 4 contains both folk songs, and a selection of modern songs.
These songs are selected to meet the needs of the curriculum, while also being enjoyable and engaging for children.
There are videos showing each step of the process, from the introduction to the song through to playing as a classroom ensemble.
Singing
In this grade four music curriculum students are going to sing a variety of fun songs.
There are animations with all words on the screen to support their learning.
Students will learn actions and movement along with many of the songs.
Untuned percussion
After learning the singing, students will be able to add untuned percusion rhythm parts to the song.
The parts are flexible and workable with whatever instruments you have in your classroom,.
The music is fun to play and it builds musical skills in the students at the same time.
Tuned instruments
Students can learn some tuned percussion parts appropriate for fourth grade.
In this grade parts can still be learnt by rote, however the students will need to follow the music.
Scrolling animation on the screen helps the students stay in time and on task throughout the process.
In the COMPOSE unit of the grade four music curriculum children will work on manipulating and organising sounds.
They will learn about the elements of music, and how to combine them to create their own music.
They will creating improvisations and then learn to record them with simple notation.
Click through some of the activities in this unit:
In the CONNECT unit of Grade 4 students will listen to a wide variety of music from Mozart to Midnight Oil.
Through listening to a wide variety of 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 lessons in this unit:
You have two choices today …
You have two choices today.
1. Do nothing.
You could do nothing with the information you’ve learned on this page, and leave. You can continue to search the internet for resources for grade four music lessons, and continue planning all lessons yourself.
That choice, although it might save you some dollars in the short term, has its consequences.
You’re going to be spending hours and hours looking for songs, and arranging them suitable for your class.
You’re going to be spending countless hours on the internet, looking for lesson ideas, games and worksheets suitable for grade four music.
You’ll have a Hodge-podge of lesson plans drawn from many different sources. If an administrator asked to see your plan or scope and sequence, you’ll be panicking trying to bring it together into a coherent document to show them.
When. instead, you have a better choice:
2. Take action and join this program today.
For the small investment below you can have a complete prepared program for grade four music lessons.
You’ll have 40 lessons ready to go. You show up, you click the lesson you’re up to, have a quick review, and teach!
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You have nothing to lose, but the stress and the headaches!
Here’s everything you get access to today:
SING & PLAY arrangements, with tutorials and play-along videos.
SKILLS development program for singing and playing instruments.
Complete COMPOSE lesson program 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!
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