Ten Days with the Sixth Graders

GOALS

1. Not Bore Children

2. Procedures
a. Lockers
b. Logistical vs. Musical
c. Turning in stuff
d. Entering the room
e. Which Room theyre in
i. Flutes and F horns in one room
ii. Everyone else in the other room
f. When to wet oboe and bassoon reeds
3. Rhythms up to Eighth notes
4. Lines and Spaces, Treble and Bass
5. Posture and Breathing
6. Reinforcing stuff

WEEK 1

Day 1 Handbook, Turning in stuff

Day 2 Handbook, entering the room

Day 3 Entering room, Posture and Breathing

Day 4 Entering the room, Rhythms

Day 5 (Straight to the room), Rhythms

WEEK 2

DAY 6 Locks and lockers

Day 7 Locks and Lockers

Day 8 Enter room, Locks and lockers

Day 9-10 Rhythm and Music Notation

Questions

1. Why the slight pause between breathing in and out?