First Grade Music Content Standards
Effective music instruction incorporates:
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Artistic Perception:
- Students listen to and analyze music critically, using the vocabulary and language of music. Students read and notate music.
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Creative Expression Component:
- Students sing or perform on instruments a varied repertoire of music. Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
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Historical and Cultural Context:
- Students develop knowledge and skills necessary to understand and perform music from all parts of the world by identifying a variety of instruments and songs from various cultures. They develop knowledge and understanding of the relationship of music to history and culture.
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Aesthetic Valuing Component:
- Students apply knowledge, skills, and understandings to make critical judgments about, and determine the quality of music experiences and performances.
The student-centered school music program provides opportunities for young students to explore a variety of music experiences.
The music program is:
- Developmentally appropriate from kindergarten through eighth grade
- Provides practical and theoretical experiences for reflection and analysis of music
- Provides skill development and mastery throughout the creative process
- Develops lifelong learners with a commitment to the arts
First grade students are expected to:
- Identify slow, medium, and fast tempi; high, middle, and low sounds; simple forms (AB, ABA, Rondo and simple rhythm)
- Read and notate simple pitch patterns, musical forms and rhythms
- Sing and or play at varied tempi
- Know, create and demonstrate simple pitch patterns, musical forms, and rhythmic patterns
- Experience music through other subject areas
- Identify, sing and or play musical examples from around the world
- Employ self assessment as part of the evaluation process
- Display an ability to make informed musical choices
Visual and performing arts programs are made possible by parent, business and community contributions to KIDDO!