Grade Level Goals

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade

MUSIC – Kindergarten Learner Outcomes

The student can:

Recognize differences between fast/slow and loud/soft.

Discriminate between high and low pitch.

Identify pitch direction.

Identify and sing intervals built with sol and mi.

Establish and maintain a steady beat.

Identify and demonstrate short rhythmic patterns containing quarter

note, quarter rest and eighth note values by using the ta-ti method.

MUSIC – First Grade Learner Outcomes

The student can:

Apply skills learned in kindergarten.

Identify and demonstrate combinations of loud/soft and fast/slow.

Identify selected families of instruments.

Aurally distinguish between steps, skips and repeated notes.

Identify and sing intervals built with la, sol, mi and do.

Distinguish between the beat and the rhythm pattern of the melody.

Identify and demonstrate short rhythmic patterns containing

half note, quarter note, quarter rest and eighth note values by

using the ta-ti method.

Demonstrate and awareness of musical phrases.

Distinguish and demonstrate how pictured shapes, sounds and

music are the same or different.

Identify thick and thin texture in music.

Sing music that belongs to and comes from many cultures.

Begin to make an effort to blend voices and play instruments

with others.

MUSIC – Second Grade Learner Outcomes

The student can:

Apply skills learned in first grade.

Respond to speed changes in music by moving, singing, and playing

instruments.

Identify examples of music that get louder or softer.

Sing examples of music that are either short and separated

or smooth and flowing.

Visually identify and aurally distinguish between examples of the

woodwind, brass, string, and percussion families.

Identify and sing intervals built with la, sol, mi, re and do.

Visually identify intervals as being steps, skips, or repeated notes.

Identify music as moving with beats in groups of 2’s or 3’s.

Identify and demonstrate rhythmic patterns containing whole,

dotted half, half, quarter, and eighth notes; whole, half, and

quarter rest values using the ta-ti method.

Recognize phrases that are the same or different.

Identify 2-part and 3-part forms (AB, ABA).

Identify when chord changes occur in an accompaniment.

Develop an awareness of a tonal center/home tone in a song.

Discriminate between music containing melody alone or

melody with harmony.

Sing music that belongs to and comes from many cultures.

Make an effort to blend voices and play instruments with others.