Grade 1

1st Quarter: start off the year with songs for our Opening School Mass! Especially focus on a song that represents our theme. Continue to explore music concepts through songs from our Music Connection book & recordings and from Essential Elements Music Class. 

2nd Quarter: begin rehearsing for our Christmas Concert performances! Always an exciting time to teach the songs and narrations that we will be using for the concert! See dates and times of performances in the Christmas Concert tab on this website. Our Christmas Concert songs are from the program, "The Very Hopeless Camel - see lyrics and link to audio tracks below!

3rd Quarter: introduce and explore a variety of classroom instruments, for example, boomwhackers, hand drums, maracas, tambourines, rhythm sticks, marimbas & xylophones. Play the instruments in songs that we sing in class. 

4th Quarter: focus on the children's story of "Peter and the Wolf" and learn to listen for specific instruments: the strings (mainly, the violin), flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, timpani (kettledrums), woodwinds and how the represent the characters in the story. 

To view weekly lesson plans, please click here for Planbook