Class Overview: 

Pre-k/Kindergarten

• Explore sound and music through singing movement, listening and playing piano.

• Explore concept of steady BEAT.

• Develop motor skills with singing and dancing.

• singing and clapping and building a repertoire of age-appropriate songs.

• Explore the concept of fast and slow/loud and soft.

First Grade

• Introduce concept of music notation using visual Aides and movement.

• Explore the concept of steady Beat, Melody, and Rhythm by participating in a variety of activities

• Experience playing a variety of different sounds on piano including assorted percussion sounded instruments.

• Improvises a simple rhythmic or melodic pattern using voices or sounded instruments.

Second Grade

*Explores music literacy by reading and writing rhythms and basic music symbols

* Explore the concepts of steady Beat, Melody, Rhythm and form participating in a variety of activities, including singing games, activities involving dance and movement, and playing assorted percussion sounded instruments.

* Develop singing voices and build a repertoire of age-appropriate songs.

*Develop ensemble skills through participation in various group music making activities, that promote and foster teamwork, respect, tolerance, problem-solving, and creativity, as well as singing and instrumental techniques

* Create their own rhythmic or melodic patterns while practicing warmups, exercises and body percussion/techniques

*Develop music vocabulary

Third Grade

• Continues to explore music literacy by reading and writing rhythms, melodies and basic music symbols.

• Explore the concepts of steady beat, melody, rhythm and form by participating in a variety of activities, including singing games, activities involving dance and movement and playing assorted piano sounded instruments.

• Aurally and visually identifies instrument families and folk instruments.

• Develop singing voices and build a repertoire of age- appropriate songs.

• Create their own rhythmic or melodic patterns through improvisation while playing instruments or using body percussion (pat, clap, stamp).

• Develop music vocabulary.