2nd 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

2nd Grade Music Activities

Semester 1

Moving to the steady Beat of a drum rhythm

• clap together when the drum stops.

• feet on the steady beat.

Rhythm Name Review

• clap and say echo

• rhythm cards

Cobbler Cobbler Rhyme

• Decode steady beat and rhythm of the words

• Transfer steady beat and rhythm to unpitched percussion.

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