1st Grade
Text: Share the Music (Macmillian); Making Music (Silver Burdett); Spotlight on Music (Macmillan) Quavers (online)
September
(continued throughout the year)
PATRIOTIC
MUSIC
FORM
Naming form
Echo
Call and Response
AB
Letter forms
SC Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3,4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 6.4
October
(continued throughout the year)
RHYTHM
Steady Beat
Long/Short sounds
Quarter Rest
Read ta, ti ti, q.rest
Rhythmic Composition
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise Upp.
SC Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 4.5,4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.3, 6.3, 6.4
November
(continued throughout the year)
Continue
RHYTHM
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise Upp.
Meter of 2
Meter of 3
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.3, 6.3, 6.4
Begin
INSTRUMENT
SOUNDS
Categories of percussion instruments
Drums, Metals, Shakers and Scrapers, Woods
SC Standards:
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.2, 2.4, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
December
(continued throughout the year)
Continue
INSTRUMENT
SOUNDS
Categories of percussion instruments
Drums, Metals, Shakers and Scrapers, Woods
Seasonal songs
Nutcracker-
Creative Mvt
SC Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 1.8,
4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2
January
(continued throughout the year)
EXPRESSION
Dynamics –Piano and forte
Changing dynamics
Tempo- fast and slow
Changing tempo
Articulation- Smooth and detached
Mood- Variety of moods
MUSIC STYLES
Spirituals
Ragtime
Jazz
Blues
Dixie Land
Big Band
(Black Music History)
SC Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
February
(continued throughout the year)
PITCH
Match Pitch
Sol, Mi, La,
Melodic Direction
Improvisation
Play PP
Simple Bordun
SC Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 2.2, 2.4,
3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6,4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
March
(continued throughout the year)
Continue Pitch Unit
Composition
Tonic Ostinato
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 2.2, 2.4,
3.2, 3.3, 3.4,
4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6,4.7, 4.8, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
April
(continued throughout the year)
Composers/
World Music
Standards:
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2
May
Year in Review
Folk Songs
(testing)
Standards:
Review of all standards covered within the year.