2nd Grade
In 2nd grade, students begin to learn much more about how musicians use notation to organize sound. Several music literacy goals are covered including the previous knowledge of rhythm (quarter notes and quarter rests) and pitch (so and mi). Because of this expanding knowledge, students learn that music making takes practice. ACTIVE music making always remains a central focus of the music class. 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 objectives in 2nd grade include reading, writing, singing, and playing rhythm patterns including quarter notes (ta), quarter rests (sh), eighth notes (ta di), and half notes (ta-ah); reading, writing, singing, and playing patterns including mi, so, and la solfege pitches, identifying songs in call and response style, moving to demonstrate AB form, responding to changing tempi, interpreting various dynamic levels in music, and demonstrating an understanding of duple and triple meter. Students will also learn that music helps us understand the world around us, that different people create different kinds of music, that people can choose the music that they enjoy, that music has texture and can be put into categories, and that music plays a huge role in our lives. As time allows this year, I will also expand music literacy goals to include reading and understanding half rests and sixteenth notes as well as the solfege pitches do and re and also four-beat meter in addition to duple and triple.
Major curriculum objectives in 2nd grade include reading, writing, singing, and playing rhythm patterns including quarter notes (ta), quarter rests (sh), eighth notes (ta di), and half notes (ta-ah); reading, writing, singing, and playing patterns including mi, so, and la solfege pitches, identifying songs in call and response style, moving to demonstrate AB form, responding to changing tempi, interpreting various dynamic levels in music, and demonstrating an understanding of duple and triple meter. Students will also learn that music helps us understand the world around us, that different people create different kinds of music, that people can choose the music that they enjoy, that music has texture and can be put into categories, and that music plays a huge role in our lives. As time allows this year, I will also expand music literacy goals to include reading and understanding half rests and sixteenth notes as well as the solfege pitches do and re and also four-beat meter in addition to duple and triple.