Grades 3-5








During these years of development students will start exploring deeper elements of music such as learning to read notated sheet music, exploration of musical instruments, and more.

The core topics that will be focused on in class are rhythm, beat, and melody.

Beat:

-Performing a steady beat

-Identifying different tempo speeds

-Identifying different complex time signatures

Rhythm:

-Replicating simple whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note rhythms.

-Performing rhythmic patterns using instruments

-Identifying rhythmic musical notation

Melody:

-Performing simple melodies with unison singing

-Evaluating pitch changing in a melody

-Understanding solfege syllables

-Identifying melodic musical notation