Kids in Lakeville experience music in kindergarten 2 times per week and in grades 1-5, one time per week.

During music, we sing, dance, play instruments and games to expand our learning in diverse ways. Each grade level has a special performance or informance at some point during the school year.  

Kindergarten Essential Learnings

Perform high and low sounds

Create and perform a short rhythmic pattern.

Identify the difference between solo and group

Identify the difference between pitched and unpitched sounds

Identify visually high and low sound objects and sounds

Perform long and short sounds

Identify aurally high and low sounds.

Perform steady beat

Create and perform a short melodic pattern.

Listen to and identify music from various cultures and time periods

1st Grade Essential Learnings

Show Kodaly hand signs to demonstrate Solfege syllable

Perform steady beat

Listen to and identify music from various cultures and time periods

Identify visually that melody moves up, down and stays the same

Identify steady beat

Perform music from various cultures and time periods

Identify visually high and low sounds. (S, M, L)

Create a short rhythmic pattern

Create a short melody

Differentiate between long and short sounds and silences (Ta, Ti Ti, Shh)

Perform Ta, Ti Ti, and Shh

Differentiate between steady beat and rhythm

2nd Grade Essential Learnings

Analyze Melodic direction and contour

Perform 4 beat rhythm patterns using notation

Perform a Round

Listen to, identify and describe music from various cultures and time periods

Identify ABA

Perform Pentatonic Solfege

Identify patterns of strong a weak beats in different meters

Define "Round"

Perform in heavy and light voice registers 

Create a short Melody

Create a short rhythmc patterm

Identify accompanied vs. Unaccompanied 

Identify heavy and light voice registers 

Identify Phrases

Identify half note and half rest 

Identify instrument families

Identify Repeat sign

identify four beat rhtyhm patterns using notation

Idenftify percussion Instruments 

Identify Pentatonic Solfege 

3rd Grade Essential Learnings

Demonstrate duple and triple meter

Differentiate between unison and harmony

Identify brass (emphasize by sight and sound)

Identify letter names of notes on the treble clef

Identify duple and triple meter

Distinguish between major and minor tonalities

Listen to, identify and describe music from various cultures and time periods

Show Solfege scale using Kodaly hand signs. Add low La. So, and high Do

Create a short rhythmic pattern

Sing rounds and partner songs

Perform music from various cultures and time periods

Define D.C al fine

Create rhythm patterns using standard notation in various meters

Define Coda

Identify standard music notation for whole note, whole rest and sixteenth notes.

Create a short melody

Perform D.C al fine

Perform Coda

4th Grade Essential Learnings

Create a short melody

Perform dotted rhythms 

Identify major and minor

Identify woodwind instruments 

Identify tempo vocabulary- Largo, Andante, Presto

Perform Dynamics 

Peform rondo form

Identify all solfege 

Identify meter

Identify dynamics and new vocabulary- crescendo, decrescendo

Perform theme and variation 

Perform melodies on recorder

Perform in various meters

Define Rondo forms

Perform all soflege 

Create a short rhythmic pattern

Define Theme and Variation

5th Grade Essential Learnings

Perform simple melodic/harmonic patterns on classroom instruments

Demonstrate syncopation

Accompany melody with ostinato

Analyze individual and group performances, compositions, arrangements and improvisations.

Perform tempo

Define 12 Bar Blues form

Improvise melodies using classroom instruments, voice or both

Identify syncopation

Improvise harmonic patterns on classroom instruments

Listen to, identify and describe music from various cultures and time periods.

Identify vocabulary for tempo-accelerando, ritardando, a tempo.

Perform 12 Bar Blues form

Identify scales and chords

Explore meters with a variety of beat notes

Improvise accompaniments using classroom instruments, voice or both.

Perform music from various cultures and time periods.

Identify tempo

Identify chord changes through guitar

Create a short rhythmic and/or melodic pattern

Identify string instruments by sight and sound

Create a short rhythmic and/or melodic pattern

Interpret rhythms through numerical counting

Identify instruments of the band and orchestra

Perform rhythmic patterns using written notation