First Grade Music

Music Reading Readiness & Musical Movement

In the general music program, first grade students begin to create, perform and respond to music through a variety of appropriate grade level games and songs. Students develop music through a variety of appropriate grade level games and songs. Students develop skills in singing, music reading and notating. Students learn solfege syllables and corresponding hand signals for sol and mi. Students learn to read and perform quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests in music by sight and sound. Movement games and listening activities enforce steady beat and grade level rhythms. Integration of literacy is stressed. Classes meet once a week for 45 minutes. 

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In first grade, we are learning to move our bodies using locomotor and non-locomotor movements, creating simple sol-mi songs, and singing.  Ask your musician to teach you about Oliver Twist, sing Pizza Pizza, and create a sol-mi pattern with you.