In Quarter 1, kindergarteners will learn:

• Voice Types: Learn the differences between speaking, singing, whispering, and calling voices.
• Echo Rhythms: Practice copying simple rhythms and understanding long and short sounds and pauses.
• Rhythmic Beats: Imitate rhythms with "1-2" or "1-2-3" beats.
• Melodic Phrases: Repeat short musical phrases.
• Solo Singing: Participate in activities where you explore your voice on your own.
• Group Singing: Join in with others for group vocal activities.
• Action Songs: Sing and move along with action songs and games.
• Steady Beat: Keep a steady beat using body movements or percussion instruments.
• Personal Space: Respect others' personal space while moving to music.
• Music Movement: Move to music using actions like swinging, twisting, and bending.
• Teamwork: Learn to work together and communicate well in music class.
• Sound Sources: Identify whether sounds come from voices, instruments, or the environment.
• Musical Pictures: Understand that pictures can show musical notes.
• Create Music: Make up simple tunes and rhythms with your voice.
• Singing Posture: Use the right posture when singing.
• Voice Difference: Distinguish between singing and speaking voices.
• Pitch Matching: Start matching musical pitches within a certain range.
• Melody Singing: Sing simple melodies with two to three notes accurately.
• Action Movements: Move to music with actions like walking, running, jumping, hopping, and marching.
• Voice Types: Recognize different types of voices, such as men’s, women’s, and children’s voices.
• Music Qualities: Tell the difference between music that is loud or soft, fast or slow, and high or low.
• Dance Moves: Create simple movements to go with the music.
• Expressive Singing: Sing with feelings, showing loudness, softness, speed, and slowness.
• Instrument Technique: Use proper technique when playing classroom instruments.
• Beat Keeping: Keep a steady beat with body percussion or instruments.
• Tempo Playing: Play instruments showing fast and slow tempos.
• Group Playing: Play music with others, demonstrating fast and slow tempos.
• Expressive Movement: Show music qualities like loud/soft and fast/slow through movement.
• Listening Skills: Recognize and describe different music qualities like loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low, and same/different.
• Musician Roles: Learn about people who make music, such as singers, instrumentalists, composers, and conductors.

In Quarter 2, kindergarteners will learn:

• Reading Rhythms: Learn to read simple rhythms using words or syllables (like quarter notes and paired eighth notes).
• Singing Patterns: Practice singing patterns that have long and short sounds and silences.
• Playing Rhythms: Use instruments or body percussion to play rhythmic patterns with long and short sounds and silences.
• Group Performances: Play your part at the right time during group performances.
• Movement and Music: Copy movements to show changes in musical phrases.
• Working Together: Learn and practice skills needed to work together and communicate well during music performances, whether in class or on stage.
• Music Patterns: Recognize and differentiate between similar and different patterns in music.
• Echo and Response Songs: Sing songs where you echo, respond, or sing together with others.
• Variety in Songs: Sing songs with different rhythms and musical keys.
• Playing Instruments: Play different types of instruments, showing high and low sounds.
• Movement and Pitch: Show high and low musical notes through movement.
• Successful Performances: Discover what makes a performance successful.
• Performance Feedback: Describe a group performance and suggest ways to make it better.
• Patriotic Music: Listen to and recognize patriotic songs like "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
• Story and Poem Improvisation: Make up vocal sounds to enhance stories and poems.
• Enhancing Stories: Use your voice and instruments to add to stories, songs, and poems.
• Song Accompaniment: Play along with songs and chants using non-pitched instruments.
• Cultural Movements: Perform movements that illustrate songs, stories, and poems from different cultures.

• Identifying Instruments: Learn to identify classroom instruments by their sound and appearance.

   

In Quarter 3, kindergarteners will learn:

• Move to Music Styles: Perform movements to different styles of music.
• Explore Composers: Learn about composers and musicians from different historical periods.
• Discover Music Styles: Explore different musical styles from various times in history.
• Try Different Music: Experience music in a variety of styles.
• Make Rhythms: Use instruments to create simple rhythmic patterns.
• Share Musical Preferences: Express what you like in music.
• Digital Music Creation: Understand that music can be made and performed using digital tools.
• Value Personal Music: Recognize the importance of creating your own music.
• Music Ideas: Share and explore ideas for making music.
• Appropriate Behavior: Learn what behaviors are appropriate for different music performances and events.

In Quarter 4, kindergarteners will learn:

• Expressive Singing: Sing with feeling, showing changes in loudness and speed.
• Global Songs: Sing songs from different countries and cultures.
• Patriotic Songs: Sing songs that are considered patriotic.
• Steady Beat: Keep a steady beat with body percussion or instruments in different musical patterns.
• Cultural Dance: Perform dances and other music activities from various cultures.
• Music in Daily Life: Understand that music is a big part of daily life around the world.
• Music in Events: See how music is involved in personal and community events.
• Cultural Appreciation: Appreciate learning about music from many different cultures.
• Movement Patterns: Show AB form (a musical pattern) through movement.
• Match Movements: Match your movements to rhythmic patterns, using both moving and still actions.
• Pitch Matching: Start to match musical pitches within a specific range (about D - A).
• Timing: Sing at the right time after a musical introduction.
• Instrument Technique: Use proper technique when playing classroom instruments.
• AB Form Music: Perform music that has an AB form structure.
• Performance Behavior: Show the right behaviors for personal and group performances, based on the purpose and audience.
• Audience Behavior: Demonstrate good audience behavior in different contexts.
• Music Connections: Recognize how music connects to other subjects and areas of learning.

In Quarter 1, first graders will learn:

• Voice Types: Learn the difference between chest voice and head voice.
• Rhythmic Patterns: Echo rhythms that show different beat patterns, like "1-2" or "1-2-3."
• Vocal Exploration: Join in activities to explore your voice.
• Action Songs: Sing and take part in songs with actions and games.
• Varied Songs: Sing songs with different rhythms and musical styles.
• Personal Space: Respect others' personal space while moving to music.
• Movement to Music: Move to music using actions like swinging, twisting, and bending.
• Teamwork in Music: Show collaboration and communication skills needed for music class.
• Vocal Improvisation: Make up vocal responses to musical questions and patterns.
• Singing Posture: Practice proper posture for singing.
• Head Voice: Use your head voice correctly in speech and song.
• Pitch Accuracy: Sing with more accurate pitch.
• Three-Pitch Melodies: Sing melodies with three different pitches accurately.
• Unison Singing: Sing together with others in unison.
• Echo and Response Songs: Sing songs where you echo, respond, or sing together.
• Locomotor Movements: Move to music using skipping and galloping.
• Music Types: Recognize the difference between vocal and instrumental music.
• Music Qualities: Identify if music is loud or soft, fast or slow, and high or low.
• Dynamics and Tempo: Sing showing dynamics (loud/soft) and tempo (speed), both alone and with others.
• Instrument Technique: Use proper technique when playing classroom instruments.
• Steady Beat: Keep a steady beat with body percussion or instruments in different patterns.
• Expressive Playing: Play instruments expressively in groups, with attention to dynamics and tempo.
• Unison Playing: Play instruments together in unison.
• Song Accompaniment: Accompany songs with a simple bass pattern.
• Movement and Expression: Show expressive qualities in music through movement, including changes in loudness and speed.
• Music Elements: Listen for and recognize elements of music like dynamics, tempo, and tone color.
• Music Description: Describe music using terms for dynamics, tempo, tone color, and form.
• Music's Role: Describe how music plays a role in daily life and events.
• Musician Roles: Understand the roles of musicians and describe musicians in the school, community, and media.

In Quarter 2, first graders will learn:

• Echo Rhythms: Copy and understand rhythms with quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and quarter rests.
• Identify Rhythms: Recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes.
• Read Rhythms: Read simple rhythmic patterns using words or symbols, like quarter notes and paired eighth notes.
• Body Percussion: Create rhythms using body percussion.
• Sing Rhythms: Sing patterns that include the note values you know.
• Perform Rhythms: Use instruments or body percussion to play rhythmic patterns with familiar note values.
• AB Form Music: Perform music that has an AB form structure.
• Rhythm vs. Beat: Show the difference between rhythm and a steady beat through movement.
• Teamwork in Music: Demonstrate collaboration and communication skills needed for successful music performances, whether in class or on stage.
• Music Structure: Recognize repetition and contrast in music sections and simple structures like AB and ABA.
• Melodic Phrases: Echo and understand short melodies using known solfege syllables (like sol, mi, la or mi, re, do).
• Music Notation: Understand that music is written on a staff and follow graphic notation for high and low pitches.
• Read Melodies: Read and create simple melodies using graphic notation or manipulatives (like sol, mi, la or mi, re, do).
• Two-Pitch Patterns: Play two-note melodies on instruments.
• Pitch Changes: Show changes in pitch through movement.
• Accompanied vs. Unaccompanied Music: Tell the difference between music with accompaniment and music without it.
• Classify Instruments: Identify and classify instruments as pitched or non-pitched.
• Performance Feedback: Describe a group performance and suggest ways to improve it.
• Patriotic Music: Listen to and recognize patriotic songs like "Yankee Doodle."
• Musical Improvisation: Use your voice or instruments to improvise and enhance stories, songs, and poems.
• Illustrative Movements: Perform movements that illustrate songs, stories, and poems from different cultures.
• Emotions in Music: Describe the emotions and ideas that music can express. 

In Quarter 3, first graders will learn:

• Movement to Music: Perform movements to different styles of music.
• Expressive Music Elements: Listen and recognize how elements of music can be used to express ideas.
• Explore Composers: Learn about composers and musicians from different historical periods.
• Music Styles: Explore different musical styles from various historical periods.
• Diverse Music: Experience music in a variety of styles.
• Music Resources: Identify where to learn more about music, such as books, websites, and people.
• Rhythmic Improvisation: Create your own rhythmic patterns using instruments.
• Melodic Improvisation: Make up melodies to match the rhythm of a text.
• Improvised Accompaniments: Create accompaniments to enhance music.
• Music Creation Ideas: Share and discuss ideas for making music based on prompts.
• Music Creation Steps: Identify the steps involved in creating music.
• Group Preferences: Discuss and share preferences for musical ideas as a group.
• Digital Music Tools: Recognize how music can be created and performed using digital tools.
• Compose Rhythms: Create 4-beat rhythmic patterns using familiar note values and notate them.
• Compose Melodies: Compose short melodic patterns using solfege syllables (like sol, mi, la or mi, re, do).
• Performance Behavior: Understand appropriate behaviors for different types of performances, such as concerts and events.

In Quarter 4, students will learn: 

• Songs from Around the World: Sing songs from different countries and cultures.
• Patriotic Songs: Sing songs that are considered patriotic.
• Steady Beat: Show a steady beat and rhythm with words using body percussion or instruments.
• Cultural Dances: Perform dances and other music activities from various cultures.
• World Instruments: Listen to and describe different world instruments.
• Music in Cultures: Understand how music is used in various cultures.
• Value of Cultural Music: Appreciate the importance of learning about music from different cultures.
• AB Form Movement: Demonstrate AB form (a musical pattern) through movement, both individually and in a group.
• Rhythmic Movement: Perform movements that use learned rhythms with body percussion and different types of movement.
• Dances: Perform line and circle dances.
• Teamwork: Work together to achieve a common goal.
• Pitch Accuracy: Sing with increasing accuracy in pitch.
• Instrument Technique: Use proper technique when playing classroom instruments.
• Performance Behavior: Show appropriate behaviors for personal and group performances based on the purpose and audience.
• Audience Behavior: Display good audience behavior in different contexts.
• Music and Other Subjects: Identify how music connects with other subjects and areas of learning.

• Echo Rhythms: Copy two-measure rhythmic patterns with "1-2" and "1-2-3" beats.
• Vocal Improvisation: Create vocal answers to given melodic and rhythmic questions (like arioso and call-and-response).
• Vocal Exploration: Participate in activities that explore different pitches and melodic shapes.
• Singing Games: Sing and join in singing games.
• Respectful Movement: Show respect for the personal space of others while moving to music.
• Non-Locomotor Movements: Respond to music with movements that don’t involve traveling, such as swinging, twisting, and bending.
• Steady Beat: Keep a steady beat while moving to music.
• Action Songs: Join in action songs and singing games.
• Collaboration and Communication: Learn and show collaboration and communication skills needed for success in music class.
• Vocal Improvisation: Create vocal answers to melodic and rhythmic questions (like arioso and call-and-response).
• Proper Singing Posture: Show the correct posture for singing.
• Imitate Sounds: Copy vowel and consonant sounds.
• Vocal Register: Use the appropriate vocal register (head voice or chest voice) while singing.
• Pitch Accuracy: Sing phrases and simple songs with better pitch accuracy.
• Melody Accuracy: Sing melodies accurately within the range of a sixth.
• Blend: Sing with attention to blending your voice with others.
• Range of a Sixth: Sing songs within a range of six notes.
• A Cappella: Identify unaccompanied vocal music as a cappella.
• Unison vs. Harmony: Tell the difference between unison and harmony in vocal music
• Melody vs. Harmony: Learn the difference between melody and harmony in music.
• Presto and Largo: Understand and define "presto" (very fast) and "largo" (very slow) tempos.
• Expressive Singing: Sing with expressive qualities, showing changes in loudness and speed.
• Proper Instrument Technique: Show proper technique when playing both pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments.
• Steady Beat: Keep a steady beat while playing rhythms on instruments in different meters.
• Play with Expression: Play instruments expressively, following changes in loudness and speed.

• Rhythm Echoing: Echo and understand two-measure rhythm patterns that include whole notes, half notes, and corresponding rests, along with rhythms from previous grades.
• Identify Notes and Rests: Learn and define half notes, whole notes, and their corresponding rests, in addition to notes and rests from previous grades.
• Read Rhythms: Read rhythmic patterns using syllables for half notes, whole notes, and their corresponding rests, along with rhythms from previous grades.
• Rhythmic Improvisation: Create simple rhythmic patterns and question-and-answer phrases using body percussion.
• Illustrate Form: Create movements to show musical form.
• Sing Patterns: Sing patterns that include known note values.
• Perform Rhythms: Play rhythmic patterns that include known note values.
• Two-Part Compositions: Maintain individual parts while performing simple two-part instrumental compositions.
• Accompaniment: Accompany songs and chants with simple repeated patterns (ostinati) and steady repeated notes (borduns).
• Collaboration Skills: Show collaboration and communication skills needed for successful music performances, both in the classroom and in public.
• Musical Structures: Identify and categorize musical forms such as round, rondo, introduction/coda, AB, and ABA.
• Identify Melodic Patterns: Listen and identify patterns in music that move upward, downward, or stay the same.
• Echo Melodies: Echo and decode short melodic patterns using known solfege syllables (do, re, mi, sol, la).
• Musical Alphabet and Staff: Identify the musical staff and the letters of the musical alphabet.
• Read Melodic Patterns: Recognize written melodic patterns as moving upward, downward, or remaining the same, using graphic or traditional notation.
• Follow Melodic Shape: Follow the shape (contour) of a written musical phrase.
• Read Pentatonic Melodies: Read pentatonic melodies written in graphic or traditional notation (do, re, mi, sol, la).
• Notate Melodic Patterns: Write down pentatonic patterns using graphic notation, manipulatives, or the letters of the musical alphabet.
• Sight-Read Music: Use a system to sight-read rhythmic and melodic patterns with known tones and rhythms.
• Sing in Parts: Maintain individual parts while singing simple two-part rounds (canons).
• Perform Rounds: Sing simple two-part rounds (canons).
• Play Melodic Patterns: Play melodic patterns that move upward, downward, and stay the same.
• Evaluate Performances: Identify elements of successful performances.
• Reflect on Performances: Describe personal and group performances, reflecting on what was successful and what could be improved.
• Patriotic Music: Listen to and recognize patriotic music such as "America" and "This Land is Your Land".

• Creating Rhythmic Patterns: Make up simple rhythm patterns using instruments that don't have pitches, like drums or tambourines.
• Making Up Simple Melodies: Create easy melodies using five notes to match the rhythm of words.
• Adding Music to Stories: Come up with musical backgrounds and repeating patterns to go along with stories or songs.
• Thinking of Music Ideas: Share and discuss ideas for making new music.
• Describing the Music-Making Process: Explain the steps you use to create music.
• Using Digital Tools for Music: Discover how to create and perform music using new digital tools and resources.
• Making Stories and Poems Fun with Instruments: Use instruments to add exciting sounds to stories and poems.
• Singing to Bring Stories and Songs to Life: Use your voice to add fun and creativity to stories, songs, and poems.
• Enhancing Stories and Songs with Creativity: Use instruments or your voice to make stories, songs, and poems more interesting.
• Singing Songs with Multiple Parts: Sing songs that have several verses and repeating choruses.
• Dancing to Music from Different Cultures: Perform movements that match songs, stories, and poems from various cultures around the world.
• Recognizing Different Instruments: Listen to and look at different instruments to learn what they are.
• Grouping Instruments by Family: Learn how to group instruments into families based on how they make sound.
• Understanding Music and Emotions: Talk about how music can make us feel different emotions and think of different ideas.
• Recognizing Music Symbols: Learn what a measure and barline are, and understand the double barline and repeat sign.
• Writing Rhythms: Show rhythms using drawings, physical objects, or traditional musical symbols like half notes and whole notes.
• Creating Rhythmic Patterns: Make up and write down rhythmic patterns that are 4 to 8 beats long using familiar note values.
• Writing Melodies: Create simple melodies using five notes and write them down using drawings, objects, or musical letters.
• Evaluating and Improving Music: Work together to decide what makes music sound good and how to make improvements.
• Understanding Music Behavior: Learn how to behave and participate appropriately when music is being performed or listened to.

• Singing Songs from Around the World: Sing songs from different countries and cultures.
• Singing Patriotic Songs: Learn and sing songs that represent your country.
• Keeping a Steady Beat: Play rhythms on instruments while keeping a steady beat in different time signatures.
• Performing Cultural Dances and Activities: Dance and participate in music activities from various cultures.
• Recognizing Music Elements: Identify different musical elements in songs from different styles, time periods, and cultures.
• Listening to World Instruments: Listen to and describe different instruments from around the world.
• Music in Customs and Traditions: Explain how music is used in various cultural customs and traditions, like celebrations and community events.
• Understanding Cultural Heritage: Recognize music that represents different cultural heritages and traditions.
• Value of Cultural Music: Discuss why it's important to learn about music from many different cultures.
• Showing the Beat in Different Time Signatures: Demonstrate how to keep a steady beat in various time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8, and when the beat changes.
• Understanding Song Forms Through Movement: Show different song patterns like AB and ABA by moving to the music.
• Using Rhythms in Movement: Perform movements using rhythms you've learned, either by clapping, tapping, or moving around.
• Demonstrating Song Forms with Dance: Show song forms like AB, ABA, rondo, and canon through dance movements.
• Performing Dances: Do choreographed dances, including line and circle dances.
• Working as a Team: Collaborate with others to achieve a shared goal.
• Singing with Accuracy: Sing phrases and simple songs while getting better at hitting the right notes.
• Singing in Different Styles: Sing songs with various time signatures, musical keys, and speeds.
• Using Instruments Properly: Show the correct way to play both pitched (like xylophones) and non-pitched instruments (like drums).
• Performing Song Forms: Play a range of music that includes patterns like AB form and parts like introductions and codas.
• Showing Good Performance Behavior: Act appropriately during performances, whether as an individual or in a group.
• Behaving as an Audience Member: Demonstrate how to behave properly when listening to performances, based on the situation.
• Connecting Music to Other Subjects: Find and discuss how music relates to other areas of learning.

• Developing the Singing Voice: Take part in activities that help strengthen and improve your singing voice.
• Singing and Playing Singing Games: Join in with fun singing games and activities.
• Using Instruments Correctly: Show the right way to play both pitched (like xylophones) and non-pitched instruments (like drums).
• Moving to Different Rhythms: Respond to music with movements, whether walking or other actions, to match the beat and rhythm.
• Moving with the Beat: Demonstrate how to move to music with beats grouped in twos and threes, keeping a steady beat.
• Action Songs and Games: Join in with songs that include actions and singing games.
• Working Together in Music Class: Show how to work well with others and communicate effectively in music class.
• Collaborating for Performances: Demonstrate teamwork and communication skills needed for successful music performances, whether in class or in public.
• Proper Singing Posture: Stand or sit up straight to sing properly.
• Understanding Sounds in Singing: Recognize and use different vowel and consonant sounds when singing.
• Switching Vocal Registers: Show how to smoothly change between different vocal ranges.
• Singing in Tune: Sing with accurate pitch, making sure the notes are correct.
• Focused Tone Quality: Sing with a clear and steady tone.
• Singing Melodies: Sing melodies accurately within an octave range.
• Blending and Balancing Voices: Sing in a way that blends well with others and maintains balance.
• Singing Within an Octave: Sing songs that fit comfortably within an octave range.
• Understanding Music Terms: Learn and explain musical terms like allegro (fast), andante (slow), mp (medium soft), mf (medium loud), pp (very soft), ff (very loud), crescendo (getting louder), and decrescendo (getting softer).
• Recognizing Music Symbols: Identify and explain symbols like tie (connecting notes), slur (smoothly connecting notes), fermata (holding a note longer), and staccato/legato (short/long note styles).
• Sight-Reading Music: Use a method to read and perform rhythmic and melodic phrases you haven’t seen before.
• Singing with Expression: Sing with feeling, using different speeds and volume levels.
• Playing with Expression: Play instruments with varying speeds and volume to convey emotion.
• Playing with Blend and Balance: Play instruments in a way that blends well with others and maintains balance.
• Expressing Music Through Movement: Show the feeling of music through your movements.
• Recognizing Musical Elements: Listen for and identify rhythm, meter, and pitch in music, along with other musical elements you’ve learned.
• Describing Music: Talk about music in terms of its structure, rhythm, meter, and pitch, using musical terms.
• Success in Music: Identify the traits and behaviors that help you succeed as a musician.
• Exploring Music Careers: Learn about different careers in music.

• Echoing Rhythms: Repeat and decode two-measure rhythm patterns that include complex notes like 16th notes, single 8th notes, eighth rests, and dotted half notes, along with rhythms learned earlier.
• Recognizing Rhythms in Different Meters: Listen and distinguish between rhythmic patterns in duple (two beats) and triple (three beats) meters.
• Understanding Rhythm Symbols: Identify and explain musical symbols like 16th notes, single 8th notes, 8th rests, and dotted half notes.
• Recognizing Musical Terms: Understand and define terms like measure, time signatures (e.g., 4/4, 3/4), and accented notes.
• Explaining Musical Sections: Recognize and explain musical terms like coda (the end section) and D.C. al Fine (return to the beginning and end at the Fine).
• Reading Rhythms with Syllables: Read rhythmic patterns using syllables for notes and rests, including 16th notes, single 8th notes, eighth rests, and dotted half notes.
• Comparing Counting Systems: Compare counting rhythms using syllables versus numbers.
• Grouping Rhythms: Organize rhythms into measures or sections of music.
• Moving to Music Form: Create movements that represent the structure or form of a piece of music.
• Singing Rhythmic Patterns: Sing patterns that use known note values, like those previously learned.
• Performing in Meter: Show meter by performing beats grouped in twos and threes while keeping a steady beat.
• Playing Rhythmic Patterns: Perform rhythmic patterns that use known note values.
• Maintaining Your Part in Ensembles: Keep your individual part steady while playing in groups with three or more parts.
• Performing Group Music: Play a range of music, including pieces that involve ensembles with three or more parts.
• Working Well Together: Show good teamwork and communication skills needed for successful music performances, whether in class or in public.
• Recognizing Melodic Elements: Identify different types of notes by ear, like steps, skips, octave leaps, and repeated notes.
• Understanding Tonalities: Tell the difference between major (happy) and minor (sad) sounds in music.
• Echoing Melodic Patterns: Repeat and decode two-measure melodies using familiar solfege syllables, including notes like low la, low sol, and high do.
• Reading Treble Staff Notes: Recognize notes written on the treble staff in sheet music.
• Understanding Pentatonic Scales: Identify and explain a pentatonic scale, which includes five notes.
• Melodic Movement: Recognize written melodies as steps, leaps, or repeats, using either graphic or traditional notation.
• Following Melodic Shape: Trace the shape or contour of longer musical phrases in written music.
• Reading Extended Pentatonic Melodies: Read melodies written in graphic or traditional notation that use an extended pentatonic scale, including notes like low la, low sol, and high do.
• Sight-Reading Music: Use a method to read and perform rhythmic and melodic phrases you haven’t seen before.
• Singing in Ensembles: Maintain your part when singing simple rounds, partner songs, and repeating patterns in two-part ensembles.
• Playing the Soprano Recorder: Play the soprano recorder using correct finger placement, breath control, and tonguing technique.
• Proper Recorder Technique: Demonstrate good posture and hand position while playing the recorder.
• Playing Notated Melodies: Play melodies written in different forms, including traditional notation.
• Performing Melodic and Rhythmic Patterns: Play simple melodies and rhythms on the soprano recorder using at least three different notes.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: Provide and accept age-appropriate feedback on music performances.
• Evaluating Performances: Identify what makes a performance successful and areas that can be improved.
• Recognizing Patriotic Music: Listen to and recognize songs that are seen as patriotic, like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
• Improvising with Music: Make up music to add to stories, songs, and poems to make them more interesting.
• Singing Songs with Verses: Sing songs that have multiple verses and repeating parts.
• Accompanying with Chords: Play the basic chords (I and V) to go along with songs.
• Dancing to Music from Different Cultures: Perform movements that match songs, stories, and poems from various cultures.
• Recognizing Orchestral Instruments: Listen to and identify different orchestral instruments, and be able to recognize them visually.
• Grouping Orchestral Instruments: Classify orchestral instruments into their families (like strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion).
• Music and Emotions: Explain how music can make us feel different emotions and think of various ideas.

• Understanding Music Creation: Identify the steps involved in making music.
• Moving to Different Music Styles: Perform movements that match various styles of music.
• Listening for Expressive Music Elements: Listen to and talk about how different music elements are used by composers and performers to express ideas.
• Evaluating Performances: Understand and recognize what makes a performance successful.
• Understanding Music’s Value: Describe why music is important and what gives it quality.
• Recognizing Composers and Musicians: Identify famous composers and musicians from different historical periods.
• Identifying Historical Music: Recognize music compositions from various times in history.
• Exploring Music Styles: Explore and experience different styles of music.
• Ethical Use of the Internet: Understand how to use the Internet responsibly when learning about music topics.
• Improvising Vocal Phrases: Make up question-and-answer phrases with your voice, like in call-and-response or arioso style.
• Vocal Improvisation with Text: Create vocal improvisations using a given text.
• Improvising Rhythms with Non-Pitched Instruments: Make up rhythmic question-and-answer patterns using instruments that don’t have pitches, like drums or shakers.
• Creating Melodies with Text: Make up simple melodies using five notes to match the rhythm of a text, including creating question-and-answer patterns.
• Improvising Music Elements: Create musical accompaniments and repeating patterns (ostinati).
• Enhancing Stories with Instruments: Use instruments to add sounds that make stories and poems more engaging.
• Body Percussion Rhythms: Create rhythmic question-and-answer patterns using body percussion, like clapping or tapping.
• Brainstorming Music Ideas: Think of ideas for making music on your own and with others.
• Using Digital Tools for Music: Describe how you can create and perform music using new digital tools and resources.
• Writing Rhythms: Notate rhythmic patterns using traditional music symbols like 16th notes, single 8th notes, 8th rests, and dotted half notes, as well as rhythms learned earlier.
• Notating Pentatonic Patterns: Write down extended pentatonic patterns using a music notation system.
• Composing Rhythmic Phrases: Create rhythmic phrases using familiar note values and write them down using traditional notation.
• Composing Melodies: Make up pentatonic melodies and write them using either traditional or creative notation methods.
• Evaluating and Revising Music: Work together to develop and apply criteria for evaluating and improving music ideas.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: Provide and accept feedback on music performances that is appropriate for your age.

• Singing Songs from Different Cultures: Sing songs from various countries and cultures.
• Singing Patriotic Songs: Sing songs that represent your country and its values.
• Performing Beats in Music: Show how to keep a steady beat by performing beats grouped in twos and threes.
• Dancing to Different Styles: Perform choreographed dances like line, circle, and folk dances.
• Dancing from Various Cultures: Participate in dances and other music activities from different cultures.
• Understanding Performance Behavior: Recognize and demonstrate appropriate behaviors for both performing and listening to music, based on the setting.
• Listening and Describing World Instruments: Listen to and describe different instruments from around the world.
• Exploring Folk Music: Learn about the role of folk music in today’s world.
• Comparing Music Styles: Compare and contrast different music styles and cultures.
• Value of Cultural Music: Discuss why it’s important to learn about music from many different cultures.
• Dancing to Music Forms: Show different song structures like ABA (where the music has a pattern of A-B-A) and rondo (like ABACA) through movement.
• Moving with Rhythms: Perform movements that use rhythms you’ve learned, either by clapping, tapping, or moving around.
• Demonstrating Music Forms in Movement: Use movement to represent various music forms like AB, ABA, rondo, and canon (where different musical lines overlap).
• Singing in Tune: Sing with accurate pitch so that your notes are in tune.
• Singing in Different Styles: Sing songs with various rhythms, keys, and tempos.
• Playing Instruments Correctly: Use proper technique when playing both pitched (like xylophones) and non-pitched (like drums) classroom instruments.
• Performing Music Forms: Play music that includes different forms like AB, ABA, rondo, and parts like introduction and coda.
• Personal Reasons for Making Music: Talk about what personally motivates you to create and enjoy music.
• Connecting Music to Other Subjects: Describe how music relates to and connects with other school subjects.

• Echoing Rhythms: Repeat and decode two-measure rhythm patterns that include dotted quarter notes followed by eighth notes, along with rhythms learned earlier.
• Listening to Melodies: Listen to and decode simple melodic patterns using solfege syllables (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la) in a hexatonic scale.
• Vocal Warmups: Join in vocal warmups to help develop and activate your singing voice.
• Singing Games: Sing and take part in fun singing games.
• Singing in Different Styles: Sing songs with different rhythms, keys, and tempos.
• Playing Instruments Correctly: Use proper technique when playing both pitched (like xylophones) and non-pitched (like drums) classroom instruments.
• Moving to Music: Respond to music with movements that match its rhythm, whether by moving around (locomotor) or staying in place (non-locomotor).
• Showing the Steady Beat: Demonstrate a steady beat in different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
• Participating in Action Songs: Join in action songs and singing games.
• Collaborating in the Music Classroom: Show and practice collaboration and communication skills needed for success in music class.
• Comparing Pitches: Listen to two different pitches and decide if they sound in tune (matching) or out of tune (not matching).
• Proper Singing Posture: Sit or stand with good posture and use proper breath control while singing.
• Understanding Diction in Singing: Learn how vowels and consonants help in clearly pronouncing words while singing.
• Transitioning Vocal Registers: Practice smoothly switching between different parts of your vocal range (like high and low notes).
• Singing with Accurate Intonation: Sing with correct pitch across a range of notes.
• Focused Tone Quality: Produce a clear and strong tone when singing.
• Singing Melodies with Expanding Range: Sing melodies accurately while gradually expanding your vocal range.
• Attention to Blend and Balance: Sing with a focus on blending with others, balancing your voice, and maintaining good pitch.
• Classifying Meter: Listen to music and figure out if it's in a duple meter (groups of two beats) or a triple meter (groups of three beats).
• Understanding Music Terms: Identify and define terms like adagio (slow) and other expressive markings from previous lessons.
• Interpreting Expressive Markings: Understand and apply musical instructions related to tempo (speed), dynamics (loudness), and articulation (how notes are played).
• Singing with Expression: Sing with emotional expression, using changes in volume (dynamics) and phrasing (how you shape the musical phrases).
• Following Conducting Cues: Sing with expressive qualities as guided by the conductor’s cues.
• Playing Recorder Properly: Play the soprano recorder with correct hand positions, finger coverage, breath control, embouchure (mouth shape), and tonguing technique.
• Playing with Expression: Play music on the recorder with appropriate phrasing and dynamics to convey expression.
• Playing Expressively: Use a wide range of dynamics and phrasing to add expression to your playing, and focus on blending, balancing, and intonation.
• Expressing Through Movement: Show expressive qualities of music through your movements.
• Recognizing Tonality: Listen and identify whether music is in a major (happy) or minor (sad) tonality, in addition to other musical elements you’ve learned.
• Describing Tonality: Describe music by identifying its major or minor tonality, along with other elements using music terminology.
• Success Traits for Musicians: Discuss the characteristics and behaviors that help musicians succeed.
• Career Traits in Music: Identify traits and behaviors that relate to different careers in music.

• Identifying Music Notation: Learn about and define musical symbols like the dotted quarter note followed by an 8th note, along with other notes and rests you’ve studied before.
• Understanding Time Signatures: Identify and understand time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4, which tell you how many beats are in each measure of music.
• Recognizing Music Markings: Learn about and explain 1st and 2nd endings (sections that repeat) and del segno (a sign indicating where to go back to in the music).
• Reading Rhythms: Read and interpret rhythmic patterns, including the dotted quarter note followed by an 8th note, along with other rhythms you’ve learned before.
• Counting Rhythms: Use syllabic (spoken) and numeric (written) counting systems to read rhythms.
• Grouping Rhythms: Organize rhythms into measures to understand the structure of the music.
• Creating Movement for Music Forms: Design movements that show different musical forms.
• Singing Rhythmic Patterns: Sing patterns that include different note values you’ve learned.
• Performing in Different Meters: Play or sing music in time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4, while keeping a steady pulse.
• Playing Rhythmic Patterns: Perform rhythmic patterns with known note values.
• Maintaining Your Part in Ensembles: Keep your part steady while performing with others in ensemble pieces that have three or more parts, using both pitched and non-pitched instruments.
• Performing Ensemble Music: Play or sing a variety of music pieces with three or more parts in ensemble settings.
• Collaboration in Performances: Show and use teamwork and communication skills needed for successful music performances, whether in the classroom or in public.
• Categorizing Musical Forms: Identify and categorize different musical forms, such as theme and variation, round, rondo, AB, and ABA.
• Identifying Melodic Movements: Listen and identify different types of melodic movements like step (moving to the next note), skip (jumping over a note), and leap (jumping over multiple notes).
• Reading Treble Staff Notes: Recognize and name notes written on the treble staff and on ledger lines (the extra lines above or below the staff).
• Understanding Major Scales: Identify and understand major (diatonic) scales, which are a sequence of notes in a specific pattern.
• Recognizing Musical Symbols: Learn about and explain sharp (raises a note), flat (lowers a note), and natural signs (cancels out previous sharps or flats).
• Identifying Steps in Notation: Recognize steps (notes moving up or down by one) in traditional musical notation.
• Reading Melodies on the Treble Staff: Read and play melodies written on the treble staff.
• Reading Hexatonic Melodies: Read and play hexatonic melodies using notes like do, re, mi, fa, sol, and la.
• Sight-Reading Rhythms and Melodies: Use a system to read rhythms and melodies that you know.
• Improvising Melodies: Create and play two-measure melodies on the spot.
• Singing in Two-Part Ensembles: Sing your part accurately while joining in with others in rounds, partner songs, and repeated musical phrases in two-part ensembles.
• Playing Increasingly Difficult Melodies: Play melodies that get more challenging, using different notational forms, including traditional notation.
• Playing Recorder Accurately: Play the soprano recorder with increased precision using at least five notes.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: Offer and accept constructive feedback on performances in a respectful and age-appropriate way.
• Evaluating Performances: Review and discuss the criteria used to judge performances and analyze how well personal and group performances meet these standards.
• Discussing the National Anthem: Learn about and discuss the history of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the National Anthem.
• Improvising with Stories and Songs: Create and add musical elements to stories, songs, and poems to make them more engaging.
• Singing Songs with Verses and Refrains: Sing songs that have multiple verses and repeated parts (refrains).
• Accompanying with Chords: Play the basic I (one), IV (four), and V (five) chords to support and enhance songs.
• Identifying and Classifying Instruments:
  • Identify Instruments: Recognize and name instruments from different music groups, like orchestras, marching bands, concert bands, and jazz bands, both by sound and by sight.
  • Classify Instruments: Sort and categorize instruments used in various musical groups, including orchestras, choruses, marching bands, concert bands, and jazz bands.

• Performing Movements: Move to different styles of music, showing how the music's style influences the way you move.
• Discussing Music Elements: Listen to music and talk about how different musical elements are used by composers and performers to create emotions and ideas.
• Recognizing Composers and Musicians: Identify famous composers and musicians from various time periods in music history.
• Recognizing Historical Music: Identify and name music compositions from different historical periods.
• Classifying Music by Style: Sort and group musical examples based on their style, such as classical, jazz, or rock.
• Understanding Music's Influence: Recognize how music from popular culture reflects past events and trends, and how it impacts current trends and society.
• Vocal Improvisation: Create and sing two-measure phrases using your voice, including more complex texts.
• Rhythmic Improvisation: Use different instruments and sound sources to make up two-measure rhythmic patterns.
• Melodic Improvisation: Create and play two-measure melodies on the spot.
• Accompaniment and Ostinati: Improvise two-measure accompaniments and repeating rhythmic patterns (ostinati) to support melodies.
• Body Percussion: Make up and perform two-measure rhythms using claps, snaps, or other body sounds.
• Brainstorming Music Ideas: Come up with and describe ideas for creating music on your own or with others.
• Describing Music Creation: Explain the steps involved in creating music.
• Comparing Music Methods: Compare and contrast how music can be made and performed using digital tools versus traditional methods.
• Exploring Music Notation: Try out different ways of writing down music to see how each system works.
• Notating Rhythms: Write down rhythmic patterns, including dotted quarter notes followed by an eighth note, using traditional music notation.
• Notating Melodies: Write down pentatonic (five-note) and hexatonic (six-note) melodies with step-by-step movements using traditional notation.
• Reflecting and Revising Music: Look back on the process of creating music and make changes based on feedback from classmates and teachers.
• Understanding Performance Behavior: Recognize and practice proper behavior as a performer or listener, considering the context and style of the music.
• Digital Citizenship: Learn about responsible online behavior when exploring music topics.
• Understanding Copyright: Know what copyright means for printed and recorded music, and how it protects the creators' rights.

• Singing International Songs: Sing songs from different countries and cultures, learning about their unique styles.
• Singing Patriotic Songs: Sing songs that are considered patriotic or represent national pride.
• Performing in Different Meters: Play or sing music in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures while keeping a steady beat.
• Performing Cultural Dances: Take part in dances and other musical activities from various cultures around the world.
• Comparing Music Elements: Look at and discuss how different music styles, time periods, and cultures use similar or different musical elements, using music vocabulary.
• Listening to World Instruments: Hear and describe different instruments from around the world and how they are used.
• Understanding Music Responses: Describe how personal beliefs and experiences can influence how people react to music.
• Explaining Music Motivations: Discuss different reasons why people create and enjoy music.
• Comparing Music Across Cultures and Times: Compare music from various cultures and historical periods to see how they are similar or different.
• Value of Learning Diverse Music: Explain why it’s important to study and understand music from many different cultures.
• Demonstrating Music Forms through Movement: Show how different musical forms like canon and rondo work by moving in patterns on your own.
• Performing Rhythmic Movements: Move or use body percussion to perform rhythm patterns you've learned.
• Ensemble Movement Forms: As a group, demonstrate various musical forms such as AB, ABA, rondo, canon, and theme and variation through coordinated movement.
• Performing Choreographed Movements: Participate in choreographed dances and other activities that match music, including traditional folk dances.
• Reading Two-Note Patterns: Practice reading and playing simple two-note accompaniment patterns (known as bordun) on instruments.
• Singing with Accuracy: Sing with the correct pitch throughout your vocal range to ensure clear and accurate performance.
• Using Proper Instrument Technique: Play both pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments with the correct technique.
• Performing Various Music Forms: Play or sing a range of music that includes canon, AB, ABA, rondo, and introduction/coda.
• Exhibiting Good Performance Behavior: Show the right behaviors for performing and participating, depending on the purpose, audience, and style of the music.
• Understanding Audience Behavior: Display appropriate audience behavior, depending on the context of the performance.
• Explaining Musical Preferences: Talk about why you like certain musical works and performances.
• Connecting Music with Other Subjects: Compare how music connects with and relates to other subjects you study.

• Vocal Warm-Ups: Join in vocal exercises that help develop and strengthen your singing voice.
• Singing Games: Sing and play engaging singing games to enhance musical skills.
• Proper Instrument Technique: Use correct techniques when playing both pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments.
• Responding to Music with Movement: Move to music in different time signatures, like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8, using both walking and other body movements.
• Steady Beat Demonstration: Show how to keep a steady beat in various time signatures.
• Action Songs and Games: Participate in songs and games that involve physical actions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work together and communicate effectively in the music classroom and during performances, whether in class or public settings.
• Comparing Pitches: Listen to two different pitches and decide if they are in tune or not.
• Proper Singing Posture: Practice good posture and breath control while singing.
• Understanding Vowels and Consonants: Learn how vowels and consonants affect how clearly and correctly you sing.
• Transitioning Between Vocal Registers: Show that you can switch smoothly between different vocal registers (like from chest voice to head voice).
• Singing with Accuracy: Sing notes correctly across a wide vocal range.
• Focused Tone Quality: Sing with a clear and focused tone.
• Expanding Vocal Range: Sing melodies with a growing range of notes.
• Blending and Balancing Voices: Sing in a way that blends well with others, and pay attention to balance and intonation.
• Classifying Meter: Listen to music and decide if it's in simple meter (like 2/4 or 4/4) or compound meter (like 6/8 or 9/8).
• Understanding Tempo Changes: Learn what terms like accelerando (speed up) and ritardando (slow down) mean, along with other expressive marks in music.
• Reading Expressive Marks: Practice reading and understanding markings in music that tell you how to play or sing with changes in speed, loudness, or style.
• Sight-Reading Rhythms and Melodies: Use a method to read and perform rhythms and melodies that you haven't seen before.
• Singing with Expression: Sing songs with the right emotions, volume changes, and phrasing as shown in the music.
• Playing with Expression: Play your instrument with the right feelings, using the dynamics and phrasing specified in the music.
• Demonstrating Expressiveness in Movement: Show expressive qualities of music through dance or other movements.
• Recognizing Texture in Music: Listen for and identify different textures in music, like whether the music sounds thick (many layers) or thin (few layers).
• Describing Texture: Explain how different layers or voices in music create a particular texture.
• Analyzing Roles of Musicians: Think about what different musicians do in society, like composers, music therapists, or music teachers.
• Recognizing Music Careers: Learn about various jobs in the music world, such as music producers, composers, and music therapists.

• Understanding 8th Note Groupings in 6/8 Time: Learn about how 8th notes are grouped together in 6/8 time, and understand syncopation (when the rhythm shifts in unexpected ways).
• Defining 6/8 Time Signature: Know what the 6/8 time signature means in music and how it affects the rhythm.
• Reading Rhythms with 8th Notes in 6/8 Time: Practice reading and playing rhythms that include 8th note groupings and syncopation in 6/8 time.
• Using Syllabic and Numeric Counting Systems: Learn different ways to count rhythms, using both syllables (like "ta" and "ti-ti") and numbers.
• Grouping Rhythms into Measures: Practice organizing rhythms into measures (the sections of music that fit within the time signature).
• Creating Movement to Illustrate Form: Make up dance or movement patterns that show the structure or form of a piece of music.
• Singing More Complex Patterns: Sing patterns with a greater range of note values, including more challenging rhythms.
• Performing Music in Various Meters: Play or sing music in different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8, keeping a steady beat.
• Performing Rhythms with Syncopation: Practice playing rhythms that include syncopation, where the emphasis is placed on unexpected beats.
• Maintaining Your Part in Ensemble Music: Keep your own musical part steady while performing in a group with three or more parts.
• Performing Longer Ensemble Pieces: Play or sing longer pieces of music with multiple parts in a group setting.
• Collaboration and Communication in Performances: Work well with others and communicate effectively to ensure a successful music performance.
• Analyzing Musical Forms: Look at and understand different structures in music, such as verse and chorus or ABA form.
• Listening to Complex Melodies: Listen carefully to more intricate tunes and figure them out using solfege syllables (do, re, mi, etc.).
• Identifying a Minor Scale: Learn what a minor scale is and how it differs from a major scale in music.
• Recognizing Steps, Skips, and Leaps: Understand and identify the different types of melodic movement in written music.
• Reading Diatonic Melodies: Practice reading melodies that use the seven natural notes (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti) in traditional notation.
• Sight-Reading Rhythms and Melodies: Use a system to quickly read and play rhythms and melodies that you’ve learned before.
• Maintaining Your Part in Ensemble Music: Sing or play your own musical part correctly while performing in groups with two or three parts.
• Singing in Ensembles: Perform different types of musical pieces like descants (extra melodies), rounds, and partner songs in small groups.
• Playing More Complex Melodies: Play melodies and accompaniment parts on instruments like the soprano recorder, increasing in difficulty.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: Share and get constructive feedback about performances that’s appropriate for your age.
• Creating and Using Evaluation Rubrics: Make a rubric (a set of criteria) to evaluate performances and use it to assess both personal and group work.
• Improvise to Illustrate Stories, Songs, and Poems: Create spontaneous music or sound effects that match and enhance the mood or action of stories, songs, or poems.
• Sing Songs with Multiple Verses and Refrains: Practice singing songs that have several verses and repeated sections (refrains), remembering to keep the song lively and engaging throughout.
• Play I, IV & V Chord Accompaniments: Learn how to play basic chord patterns (I, IV, and V chords) on an instrument to support and accompany singing or other melodies.

• Echo and Decode Two-Measure Rhythms: Listen to and repeat back short rhythmic patterns in both duple and triple meters, including those with 8th note groupings and rhythms from previous lessons.
• Document Questions and Conduct Research: Write down questions about music, then find answers and gather information to help in creating your own music.
• Perform Movements to a Variety of Styles: Use different types of movements to express and respond to various styles of music.
• Analyze How Elements of Music Are Used: Listen to how composers and performers use different musical elements (like rhythm, melody, and dynamics) to create expressive music.
• Examine Factors That Inspire Musicians: Explore what motivates musicians to create and perform music, such as personal experiences, emotions, or stories.
• Recognize Composers and Music from Different Periods: Learn about key composers and representative pieces from different historical periods of music.
• Compare and Contrast Musical Styles: Look at and discuss the differences and similarities between various musical styles using proper music terms.
• Identify Intervals (3rds, 5ths, and Octaves): Listen for and recognize how different notes sound together. For example, listen to how a note sounds when it’s played three notes up, five notes up, or eight notes up from another note.
• Key Signature: Learn how a key signature tells us which notes will be sharp or flat in a piece of music. It’s like a set of instructions at the beginning of a song that helps us know which notes to play differently.
• Improvise Four-Measure Phrases: Create and sing short musical phrases that are four measures long, making up your own melodies on the spot.
• Improvise with Complex Text: Make up melodies using more detailed or complicated words. For example, sing a new tune using a longer or more intricate sentence.
• Improvise Two-Measure Rhythms with Instruments: Create and play short rhythmic patterns with different instruments, making them more complex over time.
• Improvise Melodies of Increasing Complexity: Create and play melodies that become more intricate and detailed as you practice.
• Improvise Accompaniments and Ostinati: Make up and play repeated rhythmic or melodic patterns to support other music.
• Improvise with Body Percussion: Use claps, taps, and other body sounds to create and play short rhythmic patterns that become more complex.
• Brainstorm and Discuss Music Creation Ideas: Think about and talk about different ways to create music, both alone and with others.
• Explain Music Creation Process: Describe the steps involved in making music, from coming up with ideas to putting them together.
• Discuss Current and Emerging Music Creation Methods: Talk about new and developing ways people are using technology and other tools to make and perform music.
• Explore Music Notation Systems: Look at different ways music can be written down, like how we use notes and symbols to show what we play or sing.
• Notate Rhythms: Write down rhythms using the common symbols we use in music, including patterns that are grouped in 6/8 time and rhythms we’ve learned before.
• Notate Melodies: Write down simple melodies that use steps, skips, and jumps between notes using traditional music notation.
• Create a Rhythmic Composition: Make up a short piece of music that’s four measures long using known rhythms, and write it down using traditional music notation. You can use music software if you like.
• Compose Variations: Create new rhythmic and melodic versions of a familiar song and write them down using traditional notation.
• Use Technology for Music Composition: Make music using modern tools and technology. Writing it down using traditional notation is optional.
• Reflect and Revise: Think about how you created your music and make changes based on feedback from classmates and teachers.
• Understand Performance Behavior: Learn the right way to behave when performing or listening to music, depending on the type and setting.
• Intellectual Property in Music: Learn what "intellectual property" means in music and the music industry.
• Copyright and Fair Use: Understand the rules about using printed and recorded music, including what is allowed under copyright and fair use laws.

• Sing Songs from Around the World: Learn and sing songs from different countries and cultures, including patriotic songs from our own country.
• Perform Music in Different Meters: Play or sing music in various time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8, while keeping a steady beat.
• Choreographed Movements: Do movements or dances that go along with music, including traditional folk dances from different cultures.
• Identify Instruments: Recognize and name different types of musical instruments, including those used in classrooms, orchestras, and from around the world.
• Compare Music Styles: Look at and talk about how music is different or similar across various styles, periods, and cultures using music terms.
• Explore Music and Culture: Understand how music is connected to different cultures and how it reflects and influences them.
• Learn About Global Music: Discover the importance of studying music from various cultures and how it enriches our understanding of the world.
• Demonstrate Canon and Rondo Form Through Movement: Show how different music patterns, like canon (where one part repeats another) and rondo (where themes repeat in a pattern), can be expressed through dance or movement.
• Perform Complex Movements: Create and perform movements that are more intricate, using body percussion (like clapping) or various types of steps, to match the rhythms and syncopation we've learned.
• Show Different Music Forms Through Movement: Use dance or movement to represent different music structures, like AB or ABA, showing how music can be organized in various ways.
• Read an Individual Line from an Instrumental Score: Look at and follow a single line of music from a piece that has multiple lines or parts.
• Sing with Accurate Intonation: Sing in tune and with the right pitch across a range that suits your voice.
• Sing Songs in Different Meters, Tonalities, and Tempos: Perform songs that have various time signatures, keys, and speeds.
• Perform with Proper Technique on Instruments: Use correct methods and skills when playing both tuned and untuned classroom instruments.
• Perform Music with Different Structures: Play pieces that include various musical forms, like theme and variations, canon, AB, ABA, rondo, and pieces with introductions and endings.
• Show Appropriate Performance Behaviors: Act and perform in ways that are fitting for the purpose of the performance, the audience, and the style of music.
• Demonstrate Good Audience Behavior: Behave well as an audience member, depending on the type of event, the venue, and the style of music.
• Explore How Music Affects Us: Look into how music can make us feel or think in different ways.
• Explain Why You Like Certain Music: Share your personal reasons for liking or disliking specific pieces or performances.
• Compare Music and Other Subjects: Find and discuss the connections between music and other school subjects.
• Experiment with Sound: Explore how sound works, including its scientific aspects.