Kindergarten -- talking
and singing voice; echoing with voice and with rhythm sticks;
small percussion instruments
First grade -- talking
and singing voice; matching pitch; singing games and music from
around the world; keeping the beat
First grade students learned
a folk song from Canada and created their own verses.
Click
here to see MORE verses
Second grade -- matching
pitch; keeping the beat; playing from low to high on the barred
instruments
Third grade -- reading
rhythms--quarter and eighth notes; rhythm dictation; music and
the underground railroad; names of the notes in treble clef
Fourth grade -- reading
rhythms; pioneer and patriotic songs for Heritage School; woodwind
family; playing techniques for percussion instruments; improvisation
on barred instruments
Fifth grade -- identifying
and performing rhythms; playing the conga drum; rondo form;
"scat singing"; improvisation
Sixth grade
-- reading and performing 16th note rhythms; performing and
creating pieces based on nursery rhymes
Sixth grade students have created
pieces based on Nursery Rhymes using repetition, ostinato (repeated
patterns), body percussion and instruments.
