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  Second Trimester

• Learning the elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, expressive elements, tone color, form
• Learning correct singing technique
• Learning to play unpitched instruments
• Developing a steady beat
• Moving to formal rhythms
• Identifying melodic direction/repeated tones
• Playing quarter notes and rests
• Listening for elements of AB form, expression and style

First Grade Second Trimester

• Tone Color/Sound - identifying selected orchestral instruments
• Duration - basic rhythm notation - quarter, eighth, half notes, and quarter rest, meter represented in printed notation
• Melody - Kodaly hand signs - mi, so, la, beginning, end, and contour of melodic phrases
• Harmony - accompany one-chord song on autoharp
• Creation/Performance - singing technique, playing pitched and unpitched instruments

Second GradeSecond Trimester

• Singing technique, identifying instrumental and vocal combinations
• Beat, meter, and rhythm of melody in composition
• Sightreading skills using Kodaly hand signs - do, re, mi, so, la
• Compose four pitch melody using quarter and eighth notes
• Play harmony on autoharp and Orff instruments with I (tonic) and V7 (dominant seventh)
• Mallet technique on Orff instruments
• Analyze forms for contrast and repetition

Third GradeSecond Trimester

• Singing with correct vocal technique
• Playing Orff instruments
• Identifying sounds of orchestra instruments - string, woodwind, brass, percussion
• Developing music score reading skills
• Identifying rhythms of whole, half, quarter, eighth notes, staff, measure, g-clef (treble clef), bar line, and repeat signs
• Playing melodies on B, A, and G pitches on the recorder
• Reading music scores
• Playing harmonic accompaniment
• Identifying form and style

Fourth GradeSecond Trimester

• Learn the elements of music - timbre, rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, and form
• Practice good posture and diaphragmatic breathing
• Develop correct singing technique
• Sing tracking a music octavo
• Perform world instrument compositions - Javanese Gamelan
• Compose a grand staff composition
• Recognize like, unlike, similar phrases and melodic sequences
• Analyze rondo form
• Play Orff instruments

Fifth GradeSecond Trimester

• Develop correct singing technique
• Sing tracking a music octavo
• Create an invented instrument
• Identify the physics/acoustics of instruments - traditional instruments: string, brass, woodwind, percussion; world instruments: aerophone, chordophone, idiophone, membranophone; and non-traditional/avant -garde instruments: invented instruments
• Compose a non-traditional/avant-composition for invented instruments
• Play traditional instruments