Grade 2

Our Music 

For families interested in singing our classroom songs at home take a look at these Albums they are on Spotify!:

• There's a Hole in the Bucket

• Old Joe Clark

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3aCSkY96xs58GtXxFeFbCe 

2nd grade students continue to develop their singing voices and build on the foundation created in previous years. Using curriculums such as First Steps in Music, conversational solfege, and many other resources, students are introduced to a variety of repertoire including songs and music cultures from around the world. Students build on their foundational understanding of rhythm patterns through improvisation and beginning to read and write in notation. Students will use instruments and their singing voices to perform bass lines of simple melodies. 

Unique Aspects of the First Steps in Music Curriculum by John Feierabend

• The curriculum is based on folk and traditional songs and rhymes because of their ablity to connect generations and because of their natural melodic expressiveness, natural flow of the language, and texts filled with wonder. 

• The curriculm is based on eary childhood research related to the development of: 

  1. Music intelligence

  2. Singing skills

  3. Sensitivity to the beat and beat groups

  4. Expressive movement

  5. Musical memory 

  6. Preference and

  7. Neurological Connections 

Goals for Children : To experience activities that will prepare children for development of 

• 1. Accurate rhythmic skills

  2. Accurate singing skills 

  3. Sensitivity to the expressive qualities in music. 

Our Musical Workout (like an aerobics class") 

1. Pitched Exploration (Vocal Warm up) 

2. Song Fragments

   • Echo Song 

   • Call and Response Songs

3. Simple Song

4. Arioso (Child-created Tunes)

5. Movement Explorations (Movement Warm-up)

6. Movement for Form and Expression

   • Fingerplays/Action Songs/Circle Games

   • With Recorded Music

7. Beat Motions

   • Songs/Rhymes

   • With Recorded music

8. Song Tales