1st Grade Objectives

1st Six-Weeks Vocal

Development Aurally identifies

speaking/singing voices

Demonstrates singing voice

Echo-sings mi-sol patterns on pitch

Understanding opposites:

Identifies high/low extremes

Identifies fast/slow steady beat

Understanding and responding to steady beat:

Demonstrates use of shared v. personal space

Responds to beat by stepping accurately

Responds to beat by patting accurately.

Identifies Notation:

Identifies staff, treble clef, bass clef

2nd Six-Weeks Vocal

Development: Produces sound

moving higher/lower

Demonstrates singing voice

Matches mi-sol patterns on pitch

Understanding Music Notation:

Identifies and notates high/low sounds

Notates strong beats with an accent

Understanding and responding to steady beat:

Responds to beat by stepping and patting accurately

Plays steady beat on an instrument

Performs strong/weak beats while singing

Identifies Instruments:

Identifies unpitched percussion by sight.

3rd Six-Weeks Vocal

Development: Produced sound

moving higher/lower

Demonstrates singing voice

Matches sol-mi patterns on pitch

Understanding Music Notation:

Identifies and notates high/low pitches at octave and fifth

Performs and notates strong/weak beats (quarter notes with accents)

Notates quarter rest as a beat of silence.

Takes four beat dictation accurately

Understanding and responding to steady beat:

Responds to beat by stepping & patting accurately.

Identifies Instruments:

Identifies unpitched percussion by sound.

4th Six-Weeks Vocal

Development: Produces sounds

moving higher/lower

Demonstrates singing voice

Matches sol-mi patterns on pitch

Understanding Music Notation:

Identifies rhythm as “the way the words go”

Notates one or two sounds on a beat

Uses beamed eighth notes as two sounds on a beat

Takes four-beat dictation accurately

Understanding and responding to rhythm:

Responds to beat by stepping and patting accurately

Plays steady beat on a barred instrument (simple bordun)

Chants ostinati with a song.

5th Six-Weeks Vocal

Development: Demonstrates

singing voice Echo-sing mi-sol

patterns on pitch

Aural Discrimination

Identifies and performs sol-mi patterns

Understanding Music Notation:

Sight-sings mi-sol melodies from the 2-line staff

Notates mi-sol melodies on a two-line staff

Understanding and Responding to Rhythm:

Takes four-beat dictation accurately

Performs ostinati with songs

Differentiates between beat and rhythm

6th Six-Weeks Vocal

Development: Demonstrates

singing voice Echo-sing mi-sol-la

patterns

Aural Discrimination:

Identifies and performs mi-sol-la patterns

Aurally identifies same/step/skip/leap pitches

Understanding Music Notation:

Notates same/step/skip/leap pitches

Sight-sings mi-sol-la melodies from five-line staff

Notates mi-sol-la melodies on five-line staff

Understanding and Responding to Rhythm:

Takes 8-beat dictation accurately