Here is what students can expect to learn in the Music Room this year.  

Pre - K:  Exploring music through games, songs, rhymes, and small instruments.

K: Keeping a steady beat, using our singing voices, exploring melodic direction, and playing handheld rhythm instruments.

1: Keeping a steady beat, reading simple rhythms, matching pitch with our singing voice, beginning solfege, barred instrument basics.

2: Reading and playing simple rhythms, performing melodies on barred instruments, creating harmony through partner songs and ostinati.

3: Reading and playing rhythms, performing melodies and improvising on barred instruments, creating harmony through ostinati, partner songs, and  rounds/canons, ensemble skills.

4: Reading, counting, and playing rhythms and melodies from traditional notation, recorder basics, creating harmony by playing multiple parts on various instruments, ensemble skills.

5: Reading, counting, and playing rhythms and melodies from traditional notation, ukulele basics, creating harmony by playing multiple parts on various instruments, ensemble skills.