Every child has God-given talents and gifts. Every child has a capacity to create and to appreciate the creativity of others. The music curriculum is designed to help our students develop those capacities and abilities.
Music is an important part of our society and of any school curriculum. It is a part of the aesthetic and intellectual growth of each individual.
Music is also part of our spiritual growth. Them music in the liturgy is very important to the celebration of life.
Kindergarten Music Curriculum:
¨ Learn how to use musical vocabulary in performing steady beat.
¨ Apply knowledge through improvisation
¨ Learn differences in tempo: fast/allegro, medium/andante, slow/largo
¨ Compare/contrast rhythms
¨ Learn songs from other cultures
¨ Learn about dynamics: loud/forte and soft/piano
¨ Four ways we can use our voice: call, speak, whisper, sing
¨ Sing in groups
¨ Play unpitched percussion instruments
¨ Learn how to skip and gallop in rhythm with music
1st grade music curriculum:
¨ Introduce solfege: mi, sol, la
¨ Learn how to respond vocally using loud and soft dynamics
¨ Demonstrate perceptual skills through movement
¨ Use body percussion: snapping, clapping, stomping
¨ Sing and respond to steady beat
¨ Sing in groups and respond to melodic direction
¨ Identify ways in which the Italian language relates to music
2nd grade music curriculum:
¨ Apply music knowledge through improvisation
¨ Respond to music aesthetically, intellectually, and emotionally
¨ Clap rhythmic patterns or play patterns on unpitched instruments
¨ Identify AB form
¨ Respond through purposeful movement to form and rhythmic patterns
¨ Learn movements that help understand melodic direction
3rd grade music curriculum:
¨ Use music knowledge in performance
¨ Sing with appropriate techniques and expression alone and with others
¨ Recognize different styles of music
¨ Critically listening to and analyze music
¨ Perform easy melodic patterns accurately on melodic instruments
¨ Move to show melodic direction and pitch patterns
¨ Read quarter and eighth notes in music
¨ Participate in a school performance
4th grade music curriculum:
¨ Identify note names on staff in treble clef
¨ Identify ABA form in a listening sections
¨ Identify eighth, quarter, half, and whole notes
¨ Learn to properly hold recorder, how to produce good tone, and play appropriate rhythms
¨ Show understanding of note values when performing in groups during class.
¨ Learn Solfege: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti do
¨ Participate in school performance
5th grade music curriculum:
¨ Identify note names on staff in both treble clef and bass clef
¨ Read, listen, and describe music as it relates to history
¨ Listen and tell the difference between major and minor tonality
¨ Time signature
¨ Syncopation
¨ Even and uneven rhythm patterns
¨ Strong and weak beats
¨ Feel relative duration of quarter notes, quarter rests, and half notes
¨ Play rhythm patterns that use quarter, eights, and dotted quarter notes
¨ Participate in a school performance
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