RHYTHM

• Continue to develop beat competency through singing, speech, movement, body percussion, and instrument playing in a variety of tempi and styles

• Explore, improvise, read, compose, identify, and perform in the meters of 3/4

• Explore, improvise, read, compose, and perform the rhythmic value of: dotted half notes

MELODY

• Review the pentatonic scale and explore pentatonic modes

• Transpose the pentatonic scale to F and G

• Read and write in traditional musical notation on a 5-line staff

• Explore, improvise, read, and perform the notes: C’, A, D’, G on the soprano recorder

HARMONY

• Perform single moving chord drones and single moving broken drones as accompaniment patterns

• Explore and perform bass ostinati using chord roots

MOVEMENT

• Creative Movement Curriculum (Nat'l Standards)

• Elements of Dance

• Folk Dances

TEXTURE

• Perform speech, songs and instrumental pieces in 3-parts

• Perform 2 and 3-part canons

FORM

• Perform and identify four bar phrases in the meters of 2/4, 4/4, and 3/4