1st Grade Music Learning Targets

Create

• Compose, arrange, improvise music

• Notate Music

Perform

• Sing and play a variety of instruments 

• Move to music for variety of purposes

• Read music notation 

Respond

• Listen to, decode, analyze, and describe music 

• Evaluate music and music performances.

Connect

• Understand the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

• Understand music in relation to history and cultures

1st Grade Music Activities

Semester 1

Reaction Game with the Tambourine

• Moving our feet with the steady beat.

Criss-Cross Applesauce chant

• Practice different ways to sit

• Exploring rhythms of favorite foods

Bee Beat

• Following the steady beat of music with different body instruments and body actions.

Burnie Bee Rhyme

• expressing the steady beat and rhythm with body instruments.

• notating the rhythms of the words

• Playing unpitched percussion instruments for the steady beat and rhythm fot he words.

World Music Connections:

• Native American Heritage Month Music

• Diwali

• Hispanic Heritage Month Music

Composers of the Month:

• Lin Manuel Meranda

• Edvard Greig

  • Hall of the Mt. King music and story

• Peter Tchaikovsky

  • Music of the Nutcracker

Sleigh Ride body Percussion Piece