2nd Grade

SECOND GRADE MUSIC

2016-2017

You may be wondering what your child is expected to learn or accomplish in a 2^nd Grade music class. The answer is… SO MUCH! My goal is to shape your child into a Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful musician.

Your child has spent the last 2 years learning how to sing tunefully, feel the pulse (beat) of music, and to be an artful musician. Your child knows how to read and write the most basic rhythmic and melodic elements and is learning how to experience a connection with the music that is “below the surface.” This year, we will continue these things and build on them to add to their musical knowledge!

To achieve these goals, the students will experience a “musical workout” that includes plenty of movement, singing, vocal exploration, games, and a balance of repetition and variety to be both effective and interesting.

The long term goal, a 30 year goal, is to help students grow into their full musical potential, and thus enrich their lives, through carefully sequenced, fun, artful, research based, and developmentally appropriate experiences. Participation in our musical community is encouraged and fun is sure to be had by all!

NOTE: Please have your child wear tennis shoes on their assigned Music day.

TEKS Objectives:

· Identify choral voices, including unison vs. ensemble

· Identify visually and aurally the instrument families

· Use music terminology for to explain musical examples of tempo and dynamics

· Identify and label simple forms in music

· Read, write, and reproduce rhythmic and melodic patterns using standard notation

· Sing tunefully and play classroom instruments independently or in groups, including rhythmic and melodic patterns (from diverse cultures and styles)

· Move alone or with others to a varied repertoire of music using gross and fine locomotor and non-locomotor movement

· Perform simple part-work, including rhythmic ostinati and vocal exploration

· Perform music using learned tempo and dynamics

· Create rhythmic phrases using known rhythms

· Create melodic phrases using known pitches

· Explore new musical ideas in phrases using singing voice and classroom instruments

· Sing songs and play musical games, including patriotic music, folk music, and seasonal music

· Examine short musical excerpts from various periods or times in history and diverse and local cultures

· Identify simple interdisciplinary concepts relating to music

· Begin to practice appropriate audience behavior during live or recorded performances

· Recognize known rhythmic and melodic elements in simple aural examples

· Distinguish between rhythms, higher/lower pitches, louder/softer dynamics, faster/slower tempos, and simple patterns in musical performances

· Respond verbally or through movement to short musical examples

MUSIC ROOM RULES: Please discuss these with your child

M ind your manners.

U se your best singing voice.

S it and stand up tall.

I nvolve yourself in all activities.

C elebrate successes (and mistakes!)