1st Grade
In 1st Grade, students continue to learn to be tuneful, beatful, artful, and playful. We refine musical skills and build upon music literacy concepts in rhythm and pitch as we learn that making music takes time and skill. ACTIVE music making remains an integral part of music class in first grade. I believe active music making inspires a love of music in everyone and is the most important part of any music curriculum. Active music making provides opportunity for creativity and allows children to perform at their individual ability levels.
Major curriculum goals in 1st Grade include identifying steady beat or no steady beat in music, differentiating and identifying the four voices (speaking, singing, whispering, and calling), understanding and reading quarter notes (ta) and quarter rests (sh), and understanding and reading so and mi solfa pitches. Students will also begin building independence in singing, compose original rhythms and melodies with instruments and voices, understand that people can communicate through music by telling stories, and understand that music is created for many purposes. As time allows during the year, we will also extend musical literacy goals to include reading and understanding eighth notes as well as the solfa pitch la.
Major curriculum goals in 1st Grade include identifying steady beat or no steady beat in music, differentiating and identifying the four voices (speaking, singing, whispering, and calling), understanding and reading quarter notes (ta) and quarter rests (sh), and understanding and reading so and mi solfa pitches. Students will also begin building independence in singing, compose original rhythms and melodies with instruments and voices, understand that people can communicate through music by telling stories, and understand that music is created for many purposes. As time allows during the year, we will also extend musical literacy goals to include reading and understanding eighth notes as well as the solfa pitch la.