Curriculum Maps
Kindergarten
What do students learn in music class? Keep reading to find out what units your student will discover in each grade, targeted transfer goals, big ideas, vocabulary, and more! Each grade level is carefully sequenced and planned to build on exciting background knowledge and create excitement and appreciation for the musical arts.
Beat and Pattern
Experiences and exposure to steady beat internalization. Playing, Reading, and Creating Rhythmic Patterns using Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, and Beamed Eighths. Fast and Slow. Using Count sequence.
High / Low
High and Low. Sol and Mi. Line and Space. Pitch Matching, Voice Types.
Adventures in Nursery Rhyme Land
Combining elements of rhythm and pitch to create melody through game play. Building foundational repertoire. Language connections.
First Grade
Beat and Pattern
Steady Beat Awareness and Application. Playing, Reading, and Creating Rhythmic Patterns using Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, and Beamed Eighths. Rhythm in Language.
Dynamics
​Loud and Soft. Italian Words for Dynamics. Piano and Forte. Applying Dynamics to singing and playing in music. Continuation of Rhythmic Pattern Building. Dynamics in Language/Literary Text.
Pitch
​High and Low Pitch. Singing High/Low. Voice Types. Singing Solfege based on Scale Degrees with hand signs. Reading pitch on the staff. Performance Preparations.
Second Grade
Rhythm Beat and Meter
​hythm Notation and elements of literacy using quarter, beamed eighths, quarter rest. Playing, Reading, and Creating Rhythmic Patterns.
Pitch
Singing and Tone. Pitches F A G E C D on the treble clef. Reading Melodies in F and C major. Singing and Hearing Solfege Patterns with hand signs.
Timbre
​How sounds are produced. Categorizing instruments. Dynamics and Literacy Connections.
Third Grade
Rhythm Beat and Meter
​Rhythm Notation and elements of math and fractions using quarter, quarter rest, beamed eighths, beamed sixteenths, and 6/8 dotted, dotted half and dotted eighths in 6/8 time.
Pitch
​Singing, Reading, and Writing Pitch Notation of C major Scale tones on the Treble Clef
The Orchestra
Instruments of the Orchestra and Composers: Mozart, Vivaldi, Grieg, Sousa, Prokofiev
Fourth Grade
Rhythm Beat and Meter
Rhythm Notation and elements of math and fractions using quarter, quarter rest, beamed eighths, beamed sixteenths, and 6/8 dotted, dotted half and dotted eighths in 6/8 time. Combining eighths and sixteenths to make a beat.
Pitch and Recorder
Reading G A B on the treble clef, recorder playing. Breathing technique.
Orff Ensemble
Playing Ensemble Music together. Rote memory stimulation, elements of form.
Classical Composers
Beethoven, Schubert, Sousa,, Mozart, Haydn, Handel. Listening, evaluating, conducting, interpretation, performance.
Fifth Grade
Music Literacy
Exploring elements of musical literacy using Boom Whackers and Orff instruments. Reading pitch on the grand staff. Accented and syncopated sixteenth rhythms.
Dulcimers
Introduction to playing the Appalachian Dulcimer. Students will be able to play simple songs on the melody strings and basic chords in the key of D major and d minor. Reading in the key of D major. Reading rhythms and strum patterns.