What Can I expect from Music Class?
Kindergarten
Students in Kindergarten Music class enter the room quietly and sit on a letter on the alphabet rug. Students are expected to stay in their seat/on their letter at all times. Students sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. Students who need to be repeatedly reminded of expectations are asked to sit out of our games and songs after three reminders.
In Kindergarten Music we learn about musical opposites (high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow, AB Form), how to use our head voice for singing, how to keep a steady beat, and the names/sounds of many orchestral instruments.
First Grade
Students in First Grade Music class enter the room quietly and sit in an assigned chair in the music room. Students are expected to go directly to their seats and sit quietly until class begins. Students are expected to stay in their seat and sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. In First Grade music, each students has their name written on a clothespin that can be moved up or down on the "Rockin' Behavior" chart at the front of the room. A picture of the chart is included below. Each level of the chart is associated with a reward or consequence.
In First Grade Music, students learn more content specific vocabulary in relation to the opposites they learned in Kindergarten. They also begin their first unit of Conversational Solfege (a research based Music Literacy program) and usually complete the unit by the end of the year. In first grade we learn about more instruments of the orchestra. Students need a folder for First Grade Music class.
Second Grade
Students in Second Grade Music class enter the room quietly and sit in an assigned chair in the music room. Students are expected to go directly to their seats and sit quietly until class begins. Students are expected to stay in their seat and sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. In Second Grade music, each students has their name written on a clothespin that can be moved up or down on the "Rockin' Behavior" chart at the front of the room. A picture of the chart is included below. Each level of the chart is associated with a reward or consequence.
Second grade classes are participate in "Brownie Points" - a contest for Grades 2-6 where the class earns points for specific behavior. The class with the most points at the end of the quarter will get brownies!
In Second Grade Music, students complete Unit 2 of Conversational Solfege and learn about families of the orchestra. We also use classroom instruments to create orchestrations of books and play as an ensemble.
Students in Kindergarten Music class enter the room quietly and sit on a letter on the alphabet rug. Students are expected to stay in their seat/on their letter at all times. Students sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. Students who need to be repeatedly reminded of expectations are asked to sit out of our games and songs after three reminders.
In Kindergarten Music we learn about musical opposites (high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow, AB Form), how to use our head voice for singing, how to keep a steady beat, and the names/sounds of many orchestral instruments.
First Grade
Students in First Grade Music class enter the room quietly and sit in an assigned chair in the music room. Students are expected to go directly to their seats and sit quietly until class begins. Students are expected to stay in their seat and sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. In First Grade music, each students has their name written on a clothespin that can be moved up or down on the "Rockin' Behavior" chart at the front of the room. A picture of the chart is included below. Each level of the chart is associated with a reward or consequence.
In First Grade Music, students learn more content specific vocabulary in relation to the opposites they learned in Kindergarten. They also begin their first unit of Conversational Solfege (a research based Music Literacy program) and usually complete the unit by the end of the year. In first grade we learn about more instruments of the orchestra. Students need a folder for First Grade Music class.
Second Grade
Students in Second Grade Music class enter the room quietly and sit in an assigned chair in the music room. Students are expected to go directly to their seats and sit quietly until class begins. Students are expected to stay in their seat and sit quietly, using their eyes and ears to listen to the teacher. Students raise their hands to ask a question and actively participate in our music games and songs. In Second Grade music, each students has their name written on a clothespin that can be moved up or down on the "Rockin' Behavior" chart at the front of the room. A picture of the chart is included below. Each level of the chart is associated with a reward or consequence.
Second grade classes are participate in "Brownie Points" - a contest for Grades 2-6 where the class earns points for specific behavior. The class with the most points at the end of the quarter will get brownies!
In Second Grade Music, students complete Unit 2 of Conversational Solfege and learn about families of the orchestra. We also use classroom instruments to create orchestrations of books and play as an ensemble.
Music Achievement Awards for K-2
Students in grades K-2 are elligible for the following music awards at Moving Up Day:
K-4 Excellence in Music Award
The K-6 Excellence in Music Award is awarded to the students in each class that have achieved an overall class grade of a 4. If no students have an overall grade of a 4, then students who achieved a grade of a 4 for any one of the quarters can be given the award.
K-4 Excellence in Music Award
The K-6 Excellence in Music Award is awarded to the students in each class that have achieved an overall class grade of a 4. If no students have an overall grade of a 4, then students who achieved a grade of a 4 for any one of the quarters can be given the award.