Teaching Method For Fifth Grade

Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards, and it has been adopted in many states across the United States. The music textbook for Fifth Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook. The teacher receives a curriculum outline and approximately 150 questions for Fifth Grade assessments.

The Fifth Grade installment of the My Music Journal series of textbooks is a new edition expanding on the material learned in all previous textbooks to continue the students’ musical education throughout grade five. The material in this textbook will continue where the fourth-grade installment ends, and will continue to teach new material based on the students’ previous music education up to that point, providing a solid foundation of knowledge to prepare elementary students for the next phases of their music education and achievements. In this installment, several more advanced concepts of rhythm will be taught, including various meters like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4, a review of common and cut time, and new vocabulary like triplets, ties, and slurs.

Students will continue their education of melodies by learning the differences in naturals, flats, and sharps, differentiating between major and minor keys, building the major scale, and introducing the bass clef. Students will learn a variety of new tone color vocabulary and their applications, such as duet, trio, quartet, chorus, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. The concept of tempo will be expanded on with students learning andante, moderato, allegro, and presto as well as learning the basics and experimenting with a metronome. The concepts of harmony and tone will be expanded upon with students engaging in topics such as thick and thin textures, unison and harmony, new vocabulary like ostinato, partner songs, descants, countermelodies, and rounds, and various chord patterns. Finally, students will continue their education of different musical styles, engaging in various musical pieces from different cultures and time periods and comparing and contrasting these different types of music.