Learning Goals
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Kindergarten...
- Echo songs
- Vocal timbre
- High vs. low, loud vs. soft
- Mi and so
- Steady beat
- Improvising movement
- Improvising words
- Shakers
- Unpitched wood percussion
- Beat vs. rhythm
- Phrases: same and different
- Smooth vs. detached
- La
1st Grade...
- Echo songs
- Steady beat
- Louder/softer and faster/slower
- Mi So and La
- Body percussion
- Repeated rhythmic patterns
- Higher/lower
- Beat vs. rhythm
- 1-2 sounds per beat
- Phrase form
- Improvising words (1 beat)
2nd Grade...
- Mi so and la
- Do re mi so and la (pentatonic)
- Ostinato and bordun
- Mallet technique
- Tempo terminology
- Unpitched percussion, including:Woods
- Metals
- Drums
- Shaker/scrapers
- Body percussion
- Simple intervals
- Dynamics
3rd Grade...
- Mi so and la
- Do re mi so and la (pentatonic)
- Mallet technique
- Keyboard instruments
- Rhythmic notation including quarter and eighth notes.
- Legato and staccato
- Pentatonic notation
4th Grade...
- Do re mi so and la (pentatonic)
- High do'
- Brass and woodwind families
- Rounds/canons
- Treble clef notation
- Dynamics
- Rhythmic notation, including quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes
- Intervals
5th Grade...
- Pentatonic and extended pentatonic songs
- Pentatonic improvising
- Intervals
- Rhythmic notation including quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes
- Phrase form
- Section form
- String and percussion families