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Course Overview

In General Music, students in grades K-5 will be learning rhythm, melody, expression, singing and instruments. We follow the Game Plan music curriculum and also use Musicplayonline. Grades are entered on a weekly basis on Progress Book.

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten students are learning to keep a steady beat, identifying high and low sounds, and ways to use their voices.

Grade 1

In first grade students are learning about melodic direction, to sing the solfa notes so, la, mi, and how to read and play quarter notes, and eighth notes.

Grade 2

In second grade students are learning about tempo, to sing the solfa notes mi, re, do, and how to read and play half notes.

Grade 3

In third grade students are learning solfa notes on the five line staff, form vocabulary and how to read and play whole notes and dotted half notes.

Grade 4

In fourth grade students are learning to sing partner songs, how to read the notes on the treble clef staff and to read and play syncopated rhythms.

Grade 5

In fifth grade students are learning about dynamics, the instrument families of the orchestra and how to read triplets and eighth sixteenth note rhythms.

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