First Grade

In First Grade, students will build upon previously learned concepts. In addition, grade one students will:

* Sing songs internally (a.k.a audiation)

* Sing with dynamic contrast (loud/soft)

* Identify one sound (quarter note) and two sounds (eighth notes) per beat

* Read and understand quarter-notes, eighth notes and quarter rests

* Demonstrate the ability to play a steady beat and simple rhythmic patterns on percussion and melodic instruments

* Improvise musical answers on percussion and melodic instruments

* Compose using known rhythms

* Respond to music using known music vocabulary

* Introduction to the music of Ghana and Japan