Curriculum
Kindergarten
- Pitch matching & Beat Competency
- Rhythm patterns (quarter and half notes)
- Use the singing voice to echo short melodic patterns
- Sing age-appropriate songs from memory
- Identify and describe basic elements in music (high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft)
First Grade
- Begin to read staff notes
- Read rhythm (quarter and half notes, quarter rests)
- Match pitch
- Begin to use singing breath
- Identify simple music forms (phrase, AB, echo)
- Identify common instruments
- Sing age-appropriate songs from memory
- Improvise simple rhythm
- Music cultural heritage
Second Grade
- Read, write and perform simple rhythmic patterns using eighth, quarter, half notes and rests
- Identify ascending/descending melody, even/uneven rhythm, musical forms (verse/refrain, AB, ABA
- Identify wind, string, brass and percussion instruments
- Sing with accuracy and from memory
- Music of different cultures
- Composers
Third Grade
- Read, write, and perform rhythmic patterns using eighth, quarter, half, dotted, whole notes and rests
- Identify visually and aurally the four families of orchestral instruments
- Sing with accuracy age appropriate songs from memory
- Recognize music of different cultures and composers
Fourth Grade
- Read, write and perform melodic, and rhythmic notation
- Using basic music terminology
- Classify variety of instruments from diverse cultures
- Recognize different music forms
- Music and composers of different time periods
- Integrate several art disciplines into a musical performance
Fifth Grade
- Music Notation
- Read and write: notes and rests (to sixteenth); staff, clefs, note names (bass & treble)
- Ear Training, Sight Singing
- Solfege syllables (Major scale) & hand signs; Intervals (Unison, P4, P5, P8, 3rd, 2nd)
- Rhythmic dictation (to 8th notes), Melodic dictation
- Sing simple melodies on solfege; Sing in 2-part harmony Ensembles
- Sing in ensemble in class and at Mass; Band club; Choir club
Sixth Grade
- Music Notation
- Read and write: notes and rests (to sixteenth); staff, clefs, note names (bass & treble)
- Ear Training, Sight Singing
- Solfege syllables (Major scale) & hand signs; Intervals (Unison, P4, P5, P8, 3rd, 2nd)
- Rhythmic dictation (to 8th notes), Melodic dictation
- Sing simple melodies on solfege; Sing in 2-part harmony Ensembles
- Sing in ensemble in class and at Mass; Band club; Choir club; Sound recording ministry
Seventh Grade
- Music Notation
- Read and write: notes and rests (to sixteenth); staff, clefs, note names (bass & treble)
- Ear Training, Sight Singing
- Solfege syllables (Major scale) & hand signs; Intervals (Unison, P4, P5, P8, 3rd, 2nd)
- Rhythmic dictation (to 8th notes), Melodic dictation
- Sing simple melodies on solfege; Sing in 2-part harmony Ensembles
- Sing in ensemble in class and at Mass; Band club; Choir club; Sound recording ministry
Eight Grade
- Music Notation
- Read and write: notes and rests (to sixteenth); staff, clefs, note names (bass & treble)
- Ear Training, Sight Singing
- Solfege syllables (Major scale) & hand signs; Intervals (Unison, P4, P5, P8, 3rd, 2nd)
- Rhythmic dictation (to 8th notes), Melodic dictation
- Sing simple melodies on solfege; Sing in 2-part harmony Ensembles
- Sing in ensemble in class and at Mass; Band club; Choir club; Sound recording ministry