Frost Elementary School
2008 – 2009

General Music Curriculum

Mrs. Lori Winters

Mrs. Winters teaches music at Frost Elementary on Monday and Tuesday and at Beall Elementary on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. If you need to reach her, please do not hesitate to call either school. To reach Mrs. Winters at Frost, please call 301-689-5168, at Beall, please call 301-689-3636.

Music Centers:

1. Computer Center: Music Ace, Kinder Music, Sibelius Programs, and Jump Start Music.


2. Integrated Music/Reading Center: Books for all levels K-5, promoting class visitation with older students reading to younger students in addition to individual quiet time reading or group aloud.


3. Rhythm Instrument Center: Exploring the world of rhythms by integrating Social Studies and different cultures with corresponding types of instruments using call/response, listen/echo, original solo pattern, and reading rhythm cards.


4. Recorder Center (Grade 3): In the fall, parents receive permission forms regarding recorders that are purchased by the school for this unit of study.


5. Hand Chime Center (Grades 4 and 5): We are honored to have these chimes purchased for us by the Board of Education. We plan to use them in our monthly programs that coincide with the PTA meetings.


6. Symbols, Vocabulary, and Definitions Center: Bulletin boards, Word Chart - as they apply to the terms in daily lessons.


7. Music Game Center: BINGO with music symbols, Staff with students writing music using paper notes, flash cards, rhythm cards, Spin and Say identifying symbols and notes and Time Signature and Theory card games.


8. The Dance Floor Center: Move, Grove, and boogie with the beat.


9. The Learning Carpet: with symbol identification exercises.

• Seasonal programs for the 2008-2009 school year will coincide with the monthly PTA meetings.


• Allegany County, aligning with the State Essential Learner Outcomes in addition to the National Standards has put into place an Assessment for Grades 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9-12. Our Assessment for Grades 2 and 4 will be adminstered throughout the year with plenty of review in the classroom.


• Weekly evaluations, in terms of nine-week grades, are based on knowledge of the elements of music being taught that week, i.e., music terms applied in our activities; participation; the ability to follow general rules of the music room, and respect for one another.


• My main objective is that your children have good experiences by having fun, which in turn may raise their self-esteem through classroom and public performance.