• Kindergarten - General Music

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Concepts: tuneful singing, loud and soft, beat, high and low voice, fast and slow, high and low melody, rhythm  

    • Performing 

      • Singing various folk songs, unaccompanied or accompanied by classroom instruments 

      • Playing classroom instruments to the steady beat, loud and soft, fast and slow 

      • Playing classroom instruments to contemporary songs 

    • Listening 

      • Various musical examples that demonstrate loud and soft, high and low, fast and slow 

      • Aural questioning about musical pieces or new songs taught in class 

    • Creating 

      • Creating movements to songs 

      • Improvising musical answers to musical questions  

    • Responding 

      • Answering questions about new songs taught 

      • Evaluating and identifying known concepts in various songs 

    • Connecting 

      • Counting 

      • Colors 

      • Letters  


    List of Primary Texts:

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill    


    Supplementary Software    : MusicPlay Online

     

    First Grade - General Music  

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

      • Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes. 

      • Proper use of classroom instruments. 

      • Folk and simple songs in unison 

    • Listening 

      • Listening and responding to different pieces of music.  Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume. 

    • Creating 

      • Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities 

      • Compositions and improvisation 

    • Responding 

      • Call and response singing and playing  

      • Echoing rhythms and songs  

    • Connecting 

      • Basic sound science  

      • Musical connections to culture and social studies 


    List of Primary Texts:

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill    

       

    Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online  

     

    Second Grade - General Music    

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

      • Rhythms including quarter, and eighth notes, quarter rests and sixteenth notes. 

      • Proper use and technique for classroom instruments. 

      • Folk and simple songs in unison 

    • Listening 

      • Listening and responding to different pieces of music.  Identifying things like mood, speed, and volume. 

    • Creating 

      • Musical crafts and visual rhythm activities 

      • Compositions and improvisation 

      • Movement to respond and correspond with musical sounds 

    • Responding 

      • Call and response singing and playing  

      • Echoing rhythms and songs  

    • Connecting 

      • Basic sound science  

      • Musical connections to culture and social studies 

      • Connections between modern pop music and music history.  Similar concepts, instruments, and sounds and how they have changed. 


    List of Primary Texts:

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill    

     

    Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online  

     

    Third Grade - General Music    

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

      • Recorder unit using Recorder Karate 

      • Pitch identification (note names) 

      • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1 and 2 

        • Introduction of whole note and whole rest 

      • Meter identification (duple and triple) 


    List of Primary Texts:

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill
    Recorder Karate – Plank Road Publishing           


    Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online  

     

    Fourth Grade - General Music    

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

      • Expansion of pentatonic scale to include low ‘so’, low ‘la’, ‘fa’, and high ‘do’ 

      • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-3 

        • Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation 

      • Ukulele unit 

      • Science of Sound unit 

     

    List of Primary Texts:

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill

     

    Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online  

     

    Fifth Grade - General Music    

    List of Main Themes/Units 

    • Students will create, perform, respond, and connect to music through the use of the National Core Arts Standards.  

    • Performing, Listening, Creating, Responding, Connecting 

      • Introduce ‘la’ pentatonic 

      • Review of rhythms taught in Grades 1-4 

      • Introduction of complex rhythms, including sixteenth patterns and syncopation 

      • Ukulele unit 

      • African World Drumming unit 

     

    List of Primary Texts: 

    Spotlight on Music - Copyright 2008 MacMillian/McGraw-Hill 
    Music and You – Silver Burdette Music 

     

    Supplementary Software: MusicPlay Online