In this classroom, we will be...
Exploring music:
Your child will sing, play instruments and move to music in 2nd grade. They will learn how to keep a beat and tell the difference between loud and soft. These activities introduce artistic, cultural, scientific and mathematical foundations of music.
They will sing songs with words and melody patterns that are repetitive and easy to learn. Many songs will be connected to the holidays.
Your child develops their voice by singing alone and learns to blend their voice with others by singing in a group. They will learn how to sing expressively, on pitch (high and low) and with correct dynamics (loud and soft). They can sing songs from memory.
Learning notes:
They will be recognizing musical notation. They learn to read simple musical notes and use invented symbols to represent a beat.
Listening and moving:
They will be exposed to many different kinds of songs with different beats and rhythms. They will respond to beat, rhythm and qualities of music, such as loud and soft, and fast and slow. Your child skips, hops, marches, claps, tiptoes, steps to the beat and makes creative movements to music, showing their understanding of rhythm, beat and the feeling of the music. This year, I am very excited to bring Folk Dancing to Ohio Street. Learning different songs and dances from around the world. This will take place around the wintertime when kids cannot go outside because of the weather.