COMING ATTRACTIONS IN MUSIC—3RD NINE WEEKS
Welcome to our second semester! The traditions of singing, moving, playing
interactive music games, learning songs of many cultures, performing on
classroom instruments, and learning music notation will continue. Since
music includes basic skills that are repeated and enhanced every year, the
concepts are the same, but reinforced with increasing difficulty.
Kindergarten will be:
Learning about the families of the orchestra and orchestral instruments
(focus on woodwinds)
Identify orchestral instruments visually (woodwinds)
Continuing practice with steady beat by using: unpitched percussion
instruments; locomotor movement; body percussion; bilateral movements
Move to long and short sounds
Listening to a song for directions
Continuing identifying comparatives (fast/slow; loud/soft; high/low;
same/different)
Reviewing previously learned concepts
First grade will be:
Learning about families of the orchestr and orchestral instruments (focus on
woodwinds and brass)
Identify orchestral instruments aurally and visually (focus on woodwinds and
brass)
Describing sounds of instruments as higher or lower
Performing movements to show the difference between long and short sounds
Matching vocal contours to visuals
Playing a singing game
Reading and performing rhythms using quarter and eighth notes and quarter rest
Learning a folk dance
Reviewing previously learned concepts
Second grade will be:
Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families
Identify orchestral instruments visually and aurally (focus on woodwinds and
brass)
Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into
families
Clapping rhythmic patterns with a listening selection
Learning a folk dance
Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, half, whole
notes and quarter rest
Expanding their study of melody on the staff (absolute pitch names)
Reviewing previously learned concepts
Third grade will be:
Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families
Identify orchestral instruments visually and aurally (focus on woodwinds,
brass, string
Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into
families
Learning a folk dance
Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, sixteenth,
half, dotted half and whole notes, and quarter, half and whole rest
Expanding their study of absolute pitch names
Continuing singing in pentatonic scale
Compare and describe rhythm durations
Learning about relationship between math and note values
Fourth Grade will be:
Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families
Identify instruments visually and aurally (brass, woodwind, string,
percussion)
Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into
families
Preparing for their field trip to the symphony
Learning about different forms in music
Learning a folk dance
Reading, writing and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth, sixteenth,
eighth and sixteenth combinations, half, dotted half and whole notes, and
quarter, half and whole rest
Continuing learning about relationship between math and note values
Reading pentatonic phrases with absolute pitch names
Continuing singing in a major scale
Writing music on the staff
Playing instruments: pitched and unpitched
Review previously learned concepts
Fifth grade will be:
Learning about orchestral instruments and categorizing them into families
Identify instruments visually and aurally (brass, woodwind, string,
percussion)
Learning about some world instruments and how they are categorized into
families
Learning a folk dance
Reading, writing, creating and performing rhythms using quarter, eighth,
sixteenth, eighth and sixteenth combinations, half, dotted half and whole
notes, and quarter, half and whole rest
Continuing their study of absolute pitch names
Reading and singing pentatonic and diatonic phrases with absolute pitch names
Writing music on the staff
Playing instruments: pitched and unpitched
Learning drum techniques
Learning new music terminology
Review previously learned concepts
