For each grade you will find the Trimester Forecast listed below.

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First Trimester

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Second Trimester

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Third Trimester

Kindergarten  First Trimester

• Learning the elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, expressive elements, form, tone color (timbre)
• Learning correct singing technique
• Playing pitched/unpitched instruments
• Distinguishing between loud and soft
• Identifying tempo as fast or slow
• Identifying the steady beat
• Distinguishing between high and low
• Identifying same and different sections of music

First Grade First Trimester

• Expressive Qualities - loud/soft sounds, getting faster/slower
• Tone Color/Sound - high/low instruments
• Duration - steady beat/ no steady beat, longer/shorter sounds, notation for eighth notes/ quarter note
• Pitch - higher/lower
• Creation/Performance - beat/rhythm on unpitched instruments

Second GradeFirst Trimester

• Identifying beat and no beat
• Rhythm of words
• Notation for quarter note, eighth notes, half note and quarter rest
• Rhythm patterns for quarter note, eighth notes, and quarter rest
• Higher and lower pitches
• Mi So La pitches on staff
• Do Mi So pitches with hand signs
• Unpitched instrument families

Third GradeFirst Trimester

• Differentiating between steady beat and rhythms in duple meter
• Identifying eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, and quarter rests
• Identifying do, re, mi, so, and la pitches
• Differentiating between vocal and instrumental tone color (sound)
• Moving in response to melodic direction
• Identifying verse-refrain (AB form)
• Recognizing dynamic changes
• Recognizing tempo changes
• Accompanying three-chord songs on autoharp
• Playing body percussion
• Playing Orff orchestration
• Singing with correct vocal technique

Fourth GradeFirst Trimester

• Read rhythms in duple and triple meters
• Play pitched instruments to show duple and triple meters
• Read eighth note, quarter note, half note, and quarter rest rhythms
• Identify sixteenth notes
• Recognize patterns using do, re, mi, so, and la pitches
• Identify phrases
• Practice good posture and diaphragmatic breathing
• Sing with pitch letter names D, E, G, A, and B
• Sing repeated notes, steps, skips
• See graphic notation for melodic contours
• Identify tonal center: tonic, subdominant, dominant
• Recognize harmonic changes
• Identify families of instruments

Fifth GradeFirst Trimester

• Recognize various tempos - allegro, andante, largo
• Identify quarter note, eighth note, quarter rest, half note, half rest, syncopation, and dotted rhythms
• Identify melodic direction
• Identify C, D, E, F, G, A, and B pitches on staff
• Identify and play tonic, subdominant, and dominant seventh chord structures
• Play Orff orchestrations
• Perform melodic and rhythmic ostinatos
• Create rhythmic interludes
• Identify changed and unchanged voices
• Identify major and minor
• Play body percussion
• Sing utilizing correct vocal technique