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Kindergarten:
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Students learn to keep a steady beat.
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Students will sing a varitey of songs from many cultures.
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Students will learn to play basic instruments correctly.
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Students will identify musical elements such as loud/soft, fast/slow and high/low.
1st Grade:
- Students continue to build a repetroire of folk songs from around the world.
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Students routinely play percussion instruments in the music room.
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Students begin to identify the musical element of long/short and continue with high/low.
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Students understand that silence is a musical element.
2nd Grade:
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Students learn rhythmic symbols such as the quarter note, quarter rest and eighth notes.
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Students read and play rhythmic patterns on simple instruments.
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Students study the brass family of instruments.
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Students identify high/low sounds as so/mi.
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Students sing songs with so, mi and la pitches. |
3rd Grade:
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Students begin to notate rhythms from dictation.
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Students aquire the half note, half rest, whole note and whole rest.
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Students begin to read pitches on a five line music staff (do, re, mi, so & la).
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Students begin to play a simple wind instrument called recorder.
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Students are encouraged to participate in after school piano keyboard lessons and the school chorus.
4th Grade:
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Students continue with the recorder.
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Students aquire sixteenth notes and a syncopated rhythm.
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Students sing and play the following pitches: do, re, mi, so, la, ti & high do
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Students are encouraged to participate in after school piano keyboard lessons and the school chorus.
5th Grade:
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Students are preparing for middle school by continuing their recorder studies.
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Students are encouraged to participate in after school piano keyboard lessons and the school chorus.
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Students participate in a musical based on the ballet of the "Nutcracker". |
