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 Third Trimester

• Expressive Qualities - move between fast/slow, describe loud/soft music
• Melody - read and play upward/downward direction/ repeated tones
• Duration - read and play eighth, quarter and half notes/rest notation
• Harmony - sing melody alone/harmony
• Form - AB form
• Creation/Performance - listen and create movement to Classical, Impressionistic, and Contemporary music

First Grade Third Trimester

• Tone Color/Sound - voice/instruments
• Duration - slower, faster, patterns, steady beat, accent, meter/sets of two & three
• Melody - high/low, intervals
• Harmony - tonal/atonal, presence/absence
• Form - AB, ABA
• Creation/Performance - create AB or ABA form with movement and on instruments
• Expressive Qualities - soft/loud, faster/slower

Second GradeThird Trimester

• Discerning tone colors of traditional & nontraditional sound sources
• Duple & triple meter
• Tempo changes
• Recurring rhythm patterns
• Intervallic structure
• Use of harmony: I and V chords
• Use of cadences
• Changes of dynamics, form, tonality, and style

Third GradeThird Trimester

• Identifying eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, quarter and half rests
• Identifying do, re, mi, so, la and high do pitches
• Identifying AB form (verse-refrain) and ABA form
• Recognizing dynamic changes
• Recognizing tempo changes
• Playing pitches B, A, G, E, low D, C, and high D on soprano recorder
• Playing Orff orchestration
• Composing for the recorder
• Improvising on the recorder
• Singing with correct vocal technique
• Listening for formal structure in a composition

Fourth Grade  Third Trimester

• Use of various tone colors (timbre) - band/orchestra instruments
• Durational values and rhythm patterns
• General sound of tonality and atonality
• Various textures, thin/thick density
• Form of symphony and sonata-allegro
• Musical qualities used to create a stylistic whole
• Pitches for minor - la, ti, do, re, mi, fa, so, la
• Harmonic structure of major and minor
• Identify key signatures

Fifth Grade ThirdTrimester

• Recognize various tempos - allegro, andante, largo, ritardando, accelerando
• Read sixteenth note, eighth note, quarter note, half note, whole note and rests, dotted, syncopation, and triplet rhythms
• Read basic rhythm patterns at sight
• Perform simple patterns in compound meter
• Recognize patterns using do, re, mi, fa, so, la and ti pitches
• Differentiate between whole and half steps
• Perform major and minor scales
• Identify unison and chordal harmony
• Practice good posture and diaphragmatic breathing
• Sing with music octavo
• Discuss articulation and expressive markings (e.g. dolce, rubato)
• Recognize harmonic changes
• Perform in Fine Arts Festival