2nd Grade

Echo/Call and Response Songs: These songs give students the opportunity to sing a varied repertoire of music without spending too much time learning the song. (Example: Down By The Bay, My Aunt Came Back)

Rounds: Rounds are a great introduction to part singing.

Circle Games, Singing Games, and Play Parties: These songs with movements take advantage of the idea that many students learn better when they are moving. Students' music repertoire is expanded while working on feeling through movement the expressiveness phrasing, or steady beat in the song. (Example: Lucky Locket, If You're Happy and You Know It)

Music Literacy: In second grade we begin learning to read standard music notation through the Conversational Solfège method developed by Dr. John Feierabend (formerly of the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford). This method is a variation of the Kodály method (named after pedagogue Zoltán Kodály) wherein children are taught to recognize common musical rhythmic or melodic patterns through songs and movement activities before learning to visually recognize or notate those same patterns.