The focus of music at Smithton School is to provide students with many enjoyable experiences in music and opportunity to learn and develop a variety of music-related skills. Through singing, playing, listening, and reading, your student will experience the various elements of music. In class, students will be introduced to various styles and kinds of music.

Students will have many opportunities to excel in musical performance, reading music and musical literature, and evaluating musical form with varying structures.

In music class we will:

• Sing, play, and evaluate music

• Listen to music from various musical eras

• Learn to sing on pitch

• Play classroom instruments, recorder, ukulele and others

• Perform singing activities that will help your student to grow in sight-reading, pitch-matching, and harmony performance

• Learn to sing solfege and sign pitches.

• Learn to become life-long lovers of music!