CURRICULUM
Big Ideas
Learning Targets
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Perform music by singing and playing instruments
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Create music by improvising and composing
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respond to music by listening, evaluating and understanding how it connects to other areas of life
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Students will singa variety of classic folk songs that will encourage pitch matching.
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Students will play the steady beat on an unpitched instrument.
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Students will play simple melodic patterns on a pitched instrument.
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With guidance and support from the teacher, students will recall information from a song's lyrics.
Music Vocabulary
Rhythm
rhythm
beat vs. rhythm
quarter note
quarter rest
2 eighth notes
3 eighth notes
dotted quarter note
dotted quarter rest
Instruments
Movement
Form
Melody
Theory
pattern
solfege
sol - mi
la -sol - mi
call and response
introduction
AB form
ABA form
staff
line/space notes
repeat
dynamics
forte
piano
percussion
xylophone
bordun
recorder
forward/backward
energy
beat vs. no beat
pathways
left/right