During the second grading period, all 2nd Grade students are preparing for their annual Christmas Program.  During each music class, students are learning and rehearsing their program songs and speaking parts.   Songs are learned through rote and echo singing.   Students read the lyrics as they learn the songs.  Movement is added to the song to enhance the performance as well.  Speaking parts are used to help tell the story of the musical.  

2023 Indiana State Music Standards

• Anchor Standard 1: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.

  • • Cn.1.2.1 Explore how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions, and discuss personal preference for different musical works.

• Anchor Standard 2: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

  • • Cn.2.2.1 Identify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.

• Anchor Standard 3: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.

  • • Cn.3.2.1 Apply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed

• Anchor Standard 4: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by music audiation

  • • Lr.4.2.1 Audiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities.

• Anchor Standard 5: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components

  • • Lr.5.2.1 Demonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary.

    • Lr.5.2.2 Apply learned criteria to perceive accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

• Anchor Standard 6: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement

  • • Lr.6.2.1 Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements to demonstrate and maintain a consistent steady beat in both simple and compound meters

    • Lr.6.2.2 Apply gross and fine motor movement to show upward and downward melodies

    • Lr.6.2.3 Identify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances

• Anchor Standard 7: Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation

  • • P.7.2.1 Sing independently and in groups using head voice and appropriate posture, with accurate pitch and rhythm

    • P.7.2.2 Sing simple songs with expressive qualities, varied tonalities, and meters

    • P.7.2.3 Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences and purposes

• Anchor Standard 8: Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation

  • • P.8.2.1 Accurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique

    • P.8.2.2 Echo and read a variety of rhythmic and/or melodic patterns, and maintain a consistent steady beat while playing an instrument

• Anchor Standard 9: Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

  • • Cr.9.2.1 Improvise by singing a simple melody using self-created text.

    • Cr.9.2.2 Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

• Anchor Standard 10: Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiation and aurally perceived music.

  • • Cr.10.2.1 Create movement patterns and describe their relationships to audiation and/or aurally perceived songs.

• Anchor Standard 11: Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation

  • • Cr.11.2.1 Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to represent simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns of rhymes and songs

    • Cr.11.2.2 Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to demonstrate simple melodies and melodic patterns of rhymes and songs.