1st Grade

What do we do in 1st Grade Music?

Through a variety of musical activities, students will demonstrate musical standards through creating, performing, and responding.
Students will be able to sing songs of various styles and cultures using their head voice.
Students will be able to play a variety of instruments by echoing the teacher, creating their own patterns, and playing from memory.
Students will be able to create tonal and rhythmic patterns using their voice and instruments.
Students will be able to identify different genres and styles of music and make connections between personal experiences and a musical work.
Students will be able to demonstrate active listening as an audience member.
Students will work towards being tuneful, beatful, and artful in and out of the music classroom.

Pitch Exploration: Warm up our singing/head voices and get ready to sing!
Fragment Songs: Echo or Call and Response songs where students echo or respond after the teacher or a student leader sings.
Simple Songs: Class sings in unison as a class, small groups or even solos!
Arioso Land: Students have a musical conversation with Ellie the Elephant. Ellie can only hear you if you sing to her!
Mr. M's Movement Minute: In MMMM, students will follow the leader as we move our bodies in response to a musical work. In this activity, we work on listening to music and moving our body in an artful way as we respond to what we hear.
Beat Motion Activity: Through either singing a song or listening to a musical work, students follow the leader again but these movements specifically work on being beatful. Beatful means we can feel the beat of the music in our body.
Song Tale: A Song Tale is a short story in song form. Typically in the form of a picture book, students will listen to the teacher share the story and will later sing along and then for the teacher.
If Time... We love to end class with a fun musical game or dance party. But only if we have time after getting through all of the planned activities for the class!