Artistic learning best develops when children are doing things; therefore, the music program will emphasize the development of skills through active participation.

 

These musical skills include:

Vocal

Creative Movement/Dancing

Instrumental (Orff/Recorder/Ukulele)

Aural Skills (Rhythm & Melody Reading/Writing)

Listening

 

These skills also include processing skills needed in any learning, such as describing, reflecting, analyzing, problem solving and decision making, and cooperating.

 

In Kindergarten, students will identify higher and lower pitches, recall and repeat familiar songs, identify basic percussion instruments by sight and by sound, respond to different movements played on a hand drum (eg. hop, skip, walk, run), and identify feelings evoked through the mood of music (eg. happy, sad, angry).

 

In Grade One, students will identify higher and lower pitches, develop their ability to sing on pitch, distinguish between beat and rhythm in simple songs, perform on basic percussion instruments as well as body parts, recognize mood in musical compositions, and enjoy creative movement activities.

 

In Grade Two, students will distinguish between beat and rhythm in a variety of musical examples, identify rhythmic patterns in learned songs, identify higher and lower pitches in a familiar melody, develop their ability to sing on pitch, demonstrate an aural understanding of accented notes in rhythmic passages, and enjoy creative movement activities.

 

In Grade Three, students will demonstrate an understanding of the difference between the terms beat and rhythm, identify the beat, rhythm, melodic contour, dynamics, and tempo in familiar pieces of music, begin study on the soprano recorder, and enjoy creative movement activities.

 

In Grade Four, students will recognize absolute note names (treble clef) and play same on the soprano recorder, distinguish between the movement of a step and the movement of a skip, identify the form verse-chorus in familiar songs, and demonstrate the ability to conduct 4/4 time.

 

In Grade Five, students will read simple musical notation both vocally and also on the soprano recorder, communicate their response to music through creative movement and visual art activities, demonstrate and understand the meaning of sharp and recognize all sharp key signatures, interpret correctly whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes (and the corresponding rests) through the use of time signatures, and identify the form introduction-verse-chorus in learned songs.   

 

 

 

THE ARTS:  MUSIC 

Grades K-5           Mrs. Norbury

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