In 2nd Grade , students will continue to learn about the foundations of music, develop, creativity through play and exploration of sound and learn some very basic skills and content. Some things that students will learning in 2nd Grade Music are as follows:

• How to play strong and weak beats in duple and triple meter.

• How to use, identify  and differentiate between a  an adult's and child's singing voice by gender.

• How to aurally analyze and perform the dynamics of a song as forte and piano.

• How to aurally analyze and perform the tempo of a song as presto and largo.

• How to aurally analyze and identify the form of a piece of music. (AB, ABC, ABA)

• How to  describe the mood of a song. (happy, sad, angry, scared, excited ect...)

• Identify similarities and differences between composed music and folk music.

• Classify and play simple classroom percussion instruments by family (woods, metals, membranes and shakers)

• Sing simple songs from a variety of cultures in America and around the world.

• Match pitch and echo and independently read simple melodies in the pentatonic scale using sol feg hand signs and syllables. (Do, Re, Mi, Sol and La)

• Echo and read simple rhythm patterns using music vocabulary with 1 and 2 beat rhythms for half notes, half rests,  quarter notes, paired eighth notes,  quarter rests in duple and triple meter.

• Collaborate with others in a music presentation and use critical thinking to analyze and describe the qualities of their own performances and how to make improvements. 

• Music improvisation through play and exploration of sound, simple instruments and their voice. 

• Identify and describe how music is used in our lives and how we participate in it.

• Create a musical composition that helps bring a story to life.