Mrs. Jennifer Kaniuka

K-5 Warren district elementary vocal music specialist

Central and Mt. Horeb Schools

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Biography

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Contact information

jkaniuka@warrentboe.org

Central School (home school)

908.753.5300 ext. 6241

Music class schedules and general info:

Mt. Horeb School: Day 1 (am only), Day 2, Day 3

Central School: Day 1 (pm only), Day 4, Day 5, Day 6

All students will come to music class in-person with their class for a 50-minute music lesson once during a 6-day rotation.

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Grade K overview:

Instruction at the kindergarten level is considered “experiential”. Students will learn about their voices and the fundamentals of music through singing and body movement.

Areas of exploration will include:

• Vocal and sound exploration
• Feeling and discovering steady beat
• Fast and slow music
• High and low pitches and instruments
• Breathing awareness and phrases
• Long and short sounds

Grade 1 overview:

Students in grade 1 will be introduced to rhythmic and melodic notation (reading and writing music) using both iconic and standard musical notation.

Students will:

• Isolate short rhythm patterns in a variety of songs and learn notation for:
• Steady beat/ Quarter notes
• Double eighth notes
• Quarter rest
• Isolate short 2-3 note melodic (tune) patterns in a variety of songs and learn syllables, hand signs and staff notation for:
• So and mi
• So, la, mi

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Grade 2 overview:

Students in grade 2 will reinforce (reading and writing music) using both iconic and standard musical notation.

Students will:

• Isolate short rhythm patterns in a variety of songs and learn notation for:
• half-notes
• Triple eighth notes
• Dotted quarter note/ rest
• Isolate short 3- 4 melodic (tune) patterns in a variety of songs and learn syllables, hand signs and staff notation for:
• So, mi-la
• So-do/ So-mi-do
• So- mi- re- do

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Grade 3 overview:

Students in grade 3 will be learning to play the recorder in music class

Students will:

• Isolate rhythm patterns in a variety of songs and learn notation for:
• half-notes
• Triple eighth notes
• Dotted quarter note/ rest
• Isolate short 3- 4 melodic (tune) patterns in a variety of songs and learn syllables, hand signs and staff notation and alphabetic notes for:
• Mi- re- do (B- A- G)
• Do- so, Do- so, -la, (G- E,- D,)
• So- mi- re- do (D- G- A- B)

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Grade 4 overview:

Students in grade 4 will reinforce (reading and writing music) using both iconic and standard musical notation.

Students will:

• Isolate short rhythm patterns in a variety of songs and learn notation for:
• Single eighth notes
• Sixteenth notes
• Syncopated rhythms
• Isolate short 3- 4 melodic (tune) patterns in a variety of songs and learn syllables, hand signs and staff notation for:
• Do-so,/ Do- so,- la,
• So- fa- mi- re- do

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Grade 5 overview:

Students in grade 5 will reinforce (reading and writing music) using both iconic and standard musical notation.

Students will:

• Isolate short rhythm patterns in a variety of songs and learn notation for:
• Single eighth notes
• Sixteenth notes
• Syncopated rhythms
• Isolate short 3- 4 melodic (tune) patterns in a variety of songs and learn syllables, hand signs and staff notation for:
• Do-so,/ Do- so,- la,
• So- fa- mi- re- do

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Click here to read list of music class expectations.

Grading

Student will be holistically assessed in participation/ effort (50% of grade), singing progress (25%), and musical skill progress (25%).

EEX= Exceeds expectations

MEX= Meets expectations

BEX= Below expectations

UG= Ungraded

NG= No grade given

Sing-alongs

Sing-alongs:

• develop and encourage singing.
• reinforce and introduce songs used in lessons.
• present important and enjoyable seasonal and cultural song literature and stories that may not be used during instruction.

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Concerts

Dates for concerts are in the works.

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Grades 1 & 2 will perform in the same concert during school hours

Grades 4 & 5 will perform together in an evening concert (attendance is mandatory and will count as a test grade)

Grade 3 will perform on recorders at the afternoon band concert

Grade K will perform at their moving up ceremony

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In the event that we cannot hold in-person concerts, students will be videoed and performances will be shared with parents.

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