Classroom Expectations

  • Kindergarten:

    Steady Beat

    High and Low

    Loud and Soft

    Beat or Rhythm

    Instrument Families

    Fast and Slow

    Basic notation

    Four voices

     

    First Grade:

    Steady Beat

    Strong and Weak beat

    Meters of 2, 3, 4

    Ostinatos

    Four voices

    Lines and Spaces

    Breathing

    Pitches and Intervals

     

    Second Grade:

     

    Steady Beat

    Strong and Weak beat

    Meters of 2, 3, 4

    Ostinatos

    Four voices

    Lines and Spaces

    Breathing

    Pitches and Intervals

    Writing notes and rests

    Dynamics

     

    Third Grade:

    Steady Beat

    Strong and Weak beat

    Meters of 2, 3, 4

    Ostinatos

    Four voices

    Lines and Spaces

    Breathing

    Pitches and Intervals

    Writing notes and rests

    Dynamics

    Instruments of the orchestra

    Science of Sounds

     

    Fourth Grade

    Triplets

    Sixteenth Notes

    Patriotic Music

    Ascending and Descending Scales

    Major Minor Melodies

    Fretted Instruments

    Playing Fretted Instruments

    Musical Time periods

     

    Fifth Grade

     

    Triplets

    Sixteenth Notes

    Patriotic Music

    Ascending and Descending Scales

    Major Minor Melodies

    Fretted Instruments

    Playing Fretted Instruments

    Musical Time periods