RHYTHM

• Identify and express an accurate steady beat in speech, movement, singing, and playing instruments

• Explore, improvise, and perform rhythms and identify rhythm as being different from the beat

• Explore, improvise, read, compose, identify, and perform the rhythmic values of quarter note (walk), eighth notes (running), and quarter rest

• Experience music in duple and triple meter

• Begin to explore traditional rhythmic notation

MELODY

• Continue to practice vocal pitch mating as individuals and in a group

• Explore and identify melodic patterns: sol-mi, sol-mi-la through singing, playing, and reading/notating on a 2-line staff

• Develop a repertoire of pentatonic folk songs

• Explore the C pentatonic scale (c, d, e, g, a) on mallet percussion instruments through melodic playing and improvising

HARMONY

• Perform and understand a simple chord drone and simple broken drone accompaniment in C pentatonic

• Sing or speak while playing a simple drone accompaniment

MOVEMENT

• Creative Movement Curriculum (Nat'l Standards)

• Elements of Dance

• Folk Dance List

TEXTURE

• Combine elements of rhythm and pitch through singing, moving, and playing

• Explore and identify crescendo and decrescendo, mezzo piano and mezzo forte

• Perform vocal or instrumental melodies with one accompaniment part

FORM

• Identify patterns in music as “same” and “different”

• Create, identify, and perform pattern in music through the use of the repeat symbol