FIRST GRADE General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each Content Outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS Use thinking skills in music: classify, decide, compare
B. GOAL SETTING & ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach them by following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan,
organize, don’t give up
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk about music using music words
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and performing music (plan, draft, analyze, revise,
evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able to create and improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional and physical manner
E. Be able to use available technology to create and perform music
F. Understand the interrelationship between music and history and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and materials in a respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME: BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE
ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a performer and audience member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention to the performance of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances, (yours and others), and develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT OUTCOMES
1. SINGING: BE ABLE TO USE THE SINGING VOICE
A. Be able to identify the singing voice in self and others
B. Be able to use the singing voice in a group
C. Be able to sit straight when you sing
2. RHYTHM: BE ABLE TO HEAR, READ AND PERFORM PATTERNS OF BEATS AND SILENT BEATS
A. Be able to perform steady beat while singing and listening
B. Be able to follow pictures/symbols of beat while singing and listening
C. Be able to read and perform beat and silent beat from pictures/symbols
3. MELODY: UNDERSTAND THAT SOUNDS GO UP, DOWN AND STAY THE SAME
A. Be able to sing and vocalize from visual cues up, down and stay the same
B. Be able to sing sol-mi patterns from visual cues
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO SING WITH A VARIETY OF ACCOMPANIMENTS
A. Be able to sing with guitar/autoharp accompaniment
B. Be able to sing with piano accompaniment
5. FORM: UNDERSTAND SAME AND DIFFERENT
A. Know when melodic and rhythmic patterns sound the same or different
B. Know the difference between verse and refrain
6. TONE COLOR: BE ABLE TO HEAR DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSICAL SOUNDS
A. Be able to identify classroom percussion instruments by sight and sound
B. Know piano, flute, violin, trumpet, voice, guitar, and cymbals by sight and sound
C. Be able to hear and differentiate child voice, adult male and adult female voices
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY UNPITCHED CLASSROOM PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
A. Be able to play the triangle
B. Be able to play the finger cymbals
C. Be able to play a single maraca
D. Be able to play the tambourine
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORLD MUSIC
A. Be able to perform songs and singing games from four different cultures or countries
B. Know the story and musical themes from “Peter and the Wolf ”
SECOND GRADE General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each Content Outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS Use thinking skills in music: classify, decide, compare
B. GOAL SETTING & ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach them by following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan,
organize, don’t give up
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk about music using music words
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and performing music (plan, draft, analyze, revise,
evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able to create and improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional and physical manner
E. Be able to use available technology to create and perform music
F. Understand the interrelationship between music and history and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and materials in a respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME: BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE
ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a performer and audience member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention to the performance of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances, (yours and others), and develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT OUTCOMES
1. SINGING: KNOW TUNEFUL SINGING
A. Be able to sing familiar songs tunefully in a group
B. Be able to sing with good seated and standing posture
C. Know when two voices make the same sound/tune (pitch)
D. Be able to improvise using sol and mi
E. Be able to sing resting tone (tonic) for familiar songs in major and minor tonalities
2. RHYTHM: BE ABLE TO HEAR, READ, WRITE AND PERFORM PATTERNS OF SOUNDS
A. Be able to read, write and perform rhythm patterns using the Kodaly rhythm syllables ta (quarter note),
ti-ti (two connected eighth notes ), rest (quarter rest)
B. Understand the difference between beat and rhythm
C. Be able to walk and move to the steady beat at various speeds
D. Be able to hear and write rhythm patterns using quarter notes, two connected eighth notes and quarter rests
E. Be able to hear and respond to strong beat for music with beats grouped in twos and threes
F. Be able to perform an ostinato (repeated pattern) using quarter notes and quarter rests
3. MELODY: KNOW THAT DIFFERENT NOTES SHOW DIFFERENT SOUNDS
A. Be able to read and sing solfege patterns using sol, mi, and la
B. Be able to hear and write note heads for patterns of sol and mi
C. Be able to differentiate line and space notes
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO MAKE HARMONY
A. Be able to play an ostinato (repeated pattern) with a familiar song
B. Know the difference between melody and accompaniment
5. FORM: KNOW THAT MUSIC HAS FORM
A. Know when sections sound the same or different
B. Know forms using A and B sections
C. Be able to say how the A and B sections are different
6. TONE COLOR: KNOW FAMILIES AND GROUPS OF INSTRUMENTS
A. Know the instrument families by sight
B. Be able to group similar musical sounds together and say how they are alike and different
C. Know how to create different musical sounds (i.e., shake, hit)
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY MALLET PERCUSSION
A. Be able to hold mallets properly
B. Be able to bounce mallet on mallet percussion to make a ringing sound
C. Be able to play using single hand and hands together
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORLD MUSIC
A. Know examples of African American music, songs, singing games, and spirituals
B. Know the music from “Carnival of the Animals ”
C. Know the story and musical themes from the “Nutcracker” ballet
THIRD GRADE General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each Content Outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS Use thinking skills in music: classify, decide, compare, analyze, predict,
generalize
B. GOAL SETTING & ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach them by following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan,
organize, don’t give up
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk and write about music using music vocabulary
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and performing music (plan, draft, analyze, revise,
evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able to create and improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional and physical manner
E. Be able to use available technology to create and perform music
F. Understand the interrelationship between music and history and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and materials in a respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME: BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE
ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a performer and audience member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention to the performance of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances, (yours and others), and develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT OUTCOMES
1. SINGING: BE ABLE TO SING TUNEFULLY
A. Be able to sing tunefully, alone and with others
B. Be able to sing loud and soft tunefully
C. Be able to improvise using sol, mi, and do
2. RHYTHM: BE ABLE TO HEAR, READ, WRITE AND PERFORM RHYTHM PATTERNS
A. Know paired eighth notes, quarter note, quarter rest, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note and
whole rest
B. Be able to read, write and perform rhythm patterns using the required notes and rests
C. Be able to hear and write one measure using paired eighth notes, quarter notes, quarter rest, half notes
D. Be able to read and perform four measures of rhythm
E. Be able to improvise a rhythmic ostinato (repeated pattern)
3. MELODY: UNDERSTAND THE NOTES ON THE TREBLE STAFF
A. Be able to follow a melody written on the treble staff
B. Be able to read and sing major tonic patterns (do, mi, sol) and major dominant patterns (sol, fa, re, ti)
C. Be able to hear and write note heads for solfege patterns of sol, mi, do
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO MAKE HARMONY
A. Be able to sing a two-part round
B. Be able to sing an ostinato (repeated pattern) with a familiar song
C. Be able to sing tonic and dominant as the root bass line to a familiar melody
5. FORM: BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE FORM OF MUSICAL PHRASES AND SECTIONS
A. Be able to see and hear phrases and sections that are the same or different
B. Be able to say how phrases are different
6. TONE COLOR: BE ABLE TO HEAR TIMBRE OF INSTRUMENTS
A. Know the instrument families by sound
B. Know the name and sound of the highest and lowest instrument in each family
C. Know four American folk instruments by sight and sound
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY MELODIC MALLET PERCUSSION (ORFF)
A. Be able to perform patterns using alternating mallets
B. Be able to play an ostinato (repeated pattern) on mallet percussion
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF WORLD MUSIC
A. Be able to sing the first verse of four American patriotic songs from memory
B. Know examples of American folk songs and dances, including basic square dance steps
C. Know examples of music, songs, and instruments from one country/culture studied in the social studies
curriculum, including where, how, and by whom they are traditionally performed
D. Know about one American composer, including basic facts and musical examples
FOURTH GRADE General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each Content Outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS Use thinking skills in music: classify, decide, compare, analyze, predict,
generalize
B. GOAL SETTING & ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach them by following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan,
organize, don’t give up
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk and write about music using music vocabulary
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and performing music (plan, draft, analyze, revise,
evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able to create and improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional and physical manner
E. Be able to use available technology to create and perform music
F. Understand the interrelationship between music and history and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and materials in a respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME: BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE
ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a performer and audience member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention to the performance of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances, (yours and others), and develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT OUTCOMES
1. SINGING: BE ABLE TO SING MUSICALLY
A. Be able to sing tunefully alone and with others
B. Be able to breathe musically
C. Be able to blend your voice with others
2. RHYTHM: UNDERSTAND METER
A. Be able to hear and write two measures of rhythm using familiar notes, rests, and meter
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