During the month of February,  the 1st grade music students will be working on their new unit about learning to read different rhythms and melodies. Students will be learning to identify, read, and perform rhythms with quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes, as well as melodies with the pitches Do, Mi, So, and La. At the beginning of March, there will be a short unit assessment. This unit will directly address Standard E-1.a Demonstrate melodic patterns that include same/different and three-pitch melodies; Standard E-1.b Demonstrate rhythmic patterns that include quarter note, paired eighth notes, and quarter rest; Standard C-1.b Improvise short patterns using learned pitches and rhythms; Standard T-1.a Melody: Identify and demonstrate same/different patterns, three-pitch patterns; and Standard T-1.b Rhythm: Identify and demonstrate rhythmic patterns that include one sound for one beat, two equal sounds for one beat, and one silent beat (quarter note/rest, paired eighth notes, steady beat, strong/weak, beat vs rhythm, same/different).