Update: Due to limited and reallocated space in the elementary school there will be no public performances in the 2023-2024 school year. 

A balance between literacy, creativity and performance.

Kindergarten

• Steady beat

• Exploring our voices

• Movement with music

• Instruments: classroom percussion

• Nursery rhymes & folk songs

First Grade

• Refine steady beat

• Introduced to basic notation (Quarter Notes – “ta” & Eighth Notes “Ti-ti”)

• Introduction to solfege 

• Movement with music continued 

• Musical careers

• Instruments: classroom percussion & boomwhackers

• Expansion of folk music repertoire. 

Second Grade

• Refine steady beat

• Notation expansion (Quarter Notes, Eighth Notes, Half Notes, Whole Notes)

• Solfege expanded

• Instruments: Orff, boomwhackers & classroom percussion 

• Instruments of the orchestra
  
  

Third Grade

• Refine steady beat & tempo 

• Notation expansion (Quarter Notes, Eighth Notes, Half Notes, Whole Notes, Dotted Half Note, Rests)

• Introduction to reading the treble clef staff

• Perform with solfege & Curwin hand signs

• Instruments: keyboards, Orff, boomwhackers & classroom percussion 

• Study of melody 

• Topics: Music History & World Music 

Fourth Grade

• Refine steady beat & tempo

• Review the treble clef staff & melody

• Notation Review (Quarter Notes, Eighth Notes, Half Notes, Whole Notes, Dotted Half Note, Rests)

• Introduction to harmony 

• Perform with solfege & Curwin hand signs

• Instruments: Ukuleles, Orff, boomwhackers & classroom percussion 

• Topics: Music History & World Music