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