Welcome to Mrs. Hill's Trimester Page.
For each grade you will
find the Trimester Forecast listed below.
First Trimester
Second Trimester
Third Trimester
Kindergarten
Second Trimester
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Learning the elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, expressive
elements, tone color, form
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Learning correct singing technique
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Learning to play unpitched instruments
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Developing a steady beat
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Moving to formal rhythms
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Identifying melodic direction/repeated tones
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Playing quarter notes and rests
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Listening for elements of AB form, expression and style
First Grade
Second Trimester
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Tone Color/Sound - identifying selected orchestral instruments
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Duration - basic rhythm notation - quarter, eighth, half notes, and quarter
rest, meter represented in printed notation
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Melody - Kodaly hand signs - mi, so, la, beginning, end, and contour of
melodic phrases
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Harmony - accompany one-chord song on autoharp
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Creation/Performance - singing technique, playing pitched and unpitched
instruments
Second Grade
Second Trimester
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Singing technique, identifying instrumental and vocal combinations
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Beat, meter, and rhythm of melody in composition
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Sightreading skills using Kodaly hand signs - do, re, mi, so, la
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Compose four pitch melody using quarter and eighth notes
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Play harmony on autoharp and Orff instruments with I (tonic) and V7 (dominant
seventh)
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Mallet technique on Orff instruments
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Analyze forms for contrast and repetition
Third Grade
Second Trimester
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Singing with correct vocal technique
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Playing Orff instruments
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Identifying sounds of orchestra instruments - string, woodwind, brass,
percussion
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Developing music score reading skills
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Identifying rhythms of whole, half, quarter, eighth notes, staff, measure,
g-clef (treble clef), bar line, and repeat signs
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Playing melodies on B, A, and G pitches on the recorder
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Reading music scores
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Playing harmonic accompaniment
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Identifying form and style
Fourth Grade
Second Trimester
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Learn the elements of music - timbre, rhythm, melody, harmony, texture,
and form
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Practice good posture and diaphragmatic breathing
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Develop correct singing technique
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Sing tracking a music octavo
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Perform world instrument compositions - Javanese Gamelan
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Compose a grand staff composition
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Recognize like, unlike, similar phrases and melodic sequences
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Analyze rondo form
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Play Orff instruments
Fifth Grade
Second Trimester
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Develop correct singing technique
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Sing tracking a music octavo
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Create an invented instrument
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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
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Compose a non-traditional/avant-composition for invented instruments
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Play traditional instruments
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