Syllabus

Units of Study

Kindergarten

-Beat

-Whisper, Talk, Shout and Sing

-Rhythm

-Holiday Music

-High and Low

-Up and down

-Meter of 2, 3 and 4

-Instrument families

-Loud and soft

-Fast or slow

-Long and short

1st Grade

-Beat

-Meter of 2,3 and 4

-Rhythm

-Ostinato

-Holiday Music

-4 Voices

-My voice is an instrument

-Lines and spaces

-Pitches and intervals

-Melodic patterns and intervals

-Notes and rests

-Pitches and rhythms

-Tempo

-Dynamics

-Instrument families

-Form

2nd Grade

-Steady Beat

-Meter

-Rhythm

-Ostinato

-My voice

-Solfege

-Baroque period

-Notes and rests

-Dynamics

-Instrument Families

-Composition

-Form

3rd Grade

-Meter

-Ostinato

-Timbre

-Musical Alphabet

-Lines and Spaces

-Melodic Movement

-Classical Period

-Sixteenth notes

-Whole notes and whole rests

-Dynamics

-Holiday Music

-Recorder

-Form

-Holiday Music

4th and 5th Grades

-Triplets

-Sixteenth notes

-Holiday Music

-Meter

-Timbre

-Duration

-Recorder

-Time Periods

*4th: Romantic

*5th: Impressionist

-Instrument Families

-Ukulele

-Steel Drums