Kindergarten students are busy exploring their voices, new instruments, and expression through movement! Some of the standards we are currently focusing on are:
learning to keep a steady beat
echoing rhythm patterns accurately
listening for and performing musical patterns
fast/slow, loud/quiet, and high/low
how to keep a steady beat
being a good audience member
First Grade students are beginning to navigate reading pitches on the 3 line staff, identifying and playing more classroom instruments, and reading rhythms! Some of the standards we are currently focusing on are:
Read, Write and Perform quarter notes and paired eighth notes
Listen for and perform songs in AB form
Creating a musical phrase
Singing with a light, clear tone
Read, write, and perform melodies with sol and mi on the staff
Second Grade students have been hard at work learning about new rhythms, folk dancing, and more complex music reading. Third trimester we will be working on:
Identifying barlines, measures, and double barlines
Identifying and explaining fermatas
Performing and identifying a coda
Staccato and legato
Singing in two part rounds
Identifying and explaining time signatures
Third Graders are cruising along with recorders! We love to use these instruments to dig into reading the treble clef staff and understanding parts of music notation. In addition to recorders we are learning about:
Composing four measures of music on the treble clef staff
Reading, writing, and performing 16th note rhythms & dotted half note rhythms
First and Second endings
Listening for and demonstrating largo and allegro
Songs in rhondo form
I-V chord accompaniments
Reading, writing, and performing extended pentatonic melodies
Fourth Graders are taking their recorder playing to the next level while also digging into the next level of music making. The end of the school year will focus on:
Composing four and eight measure melodies on the treble clef staff
Interludes, D.C. al fine and D.S. al coda
Listen for and perform songs that are in theme and variation form
Using dotted quarter-eighth note rhythms
Mezzo piano and mezzo forte
Performing I-IV-V chord accompaniments
Identifying specific instruments of the band and orchestra
5th Grade just completed a huge project - their 5th Grade Musical! We are off to the races now with the end of their time in elementary quickly approaching. Things are are ending the year with:
ID and describe sharps, flats, and naturals
Describing and performing I-IV-V chord accompaniments in various keys
Reading, writing and performing varied eighth and sixteenth note patterns
Composing and notating eight measure melodies on the treble staff
Listening for, describing, and performing half steps and whole steps
Demonstrating diminuendo and slur