1. Music Curriculum 2017-2018 Grade 1 September October November December
Meter of 2, 3, 4: Understand and experience meter through multiple activities
Classroom Procedures & Expectations: Model, Quaver 5 & practice
Steady beat: review the concept of steady beat as it pertains to a variety of music
Performance: Introduce songs for celebration program;
Music games, activities to reinforce concepts: Lucy Locket
Prepare for Veterans Day Assembly (identify meter of songs)
November
December
Practicing Rhythm: experience rhythms through moving, singing, and playing instruments
Fine tune percussion songs
Practice Dances: Khorovod, Friend Dance, Bonjour Mes Amis
Melodic pattern: Songs with percussion: Friends, All around the world, etc.
Fine tune music, dances, and class performances, procedures, script practice
Dances: Khorovod, Friend Dance, Bonjour mes amis

2. Prepare for post-assessment
Music Curriculum Map
Grade 1
January
February
Performance: script practice, rehearsals, review dances, percussion & reflection
Rhythm: Sing, play, and move to rhythm, reading and writing rhythms
Ostinato
Notes and Rests: Sound, rest,
Voice: Different voices, voice is an instrument
Pitches and rhythm: Introduce & apply concepts
Sing and breathe: technique
Prepare for post-assessment
March
April
Post assessment: rhythm
Pitches and rhythm: sol, mi, la: blend staff and notes
Tempo: experience and understand tempo through singing, playing & moving
Melodic patterns: sing, play, create, move
Pitches & interval: reading sol, mi, la
Dynamics: Loud & Soft (piano & forte): singing, instruments

3. Music Curriculum Map 2017-2018 Grade 1 June May Form: AB, ABA
Re-visit familiar songs & discover form
Instrument family: cooperative groups explore
Instrument Families: Introduce string, percussion, brass, woodwinds
Program Music: Peter and the Wolf (video & BC Symphony & discussion)
Cooperative Group Posters
Classroom percussion: playing familiar ostinato
Found Sound

4. Music Curriculum Map 2017-2018 Kindergarten September October November
Classroom Procedures & Expectations
Voice: ability to use voices in 4 different ways
Introduce Veterans Day Songs
Beat: Define & discover presence of beat in music
Rhythm: Introduce and experience connection between beat & rhythm
Steady Beat: Feel, identify, and express steady beat: singing and moving
Sing, play, and move to rhythm (rhythm sticks, beanbags, Lucy Locket)
November
December
Pitch: High & Low; pitches and singing
Seasons, Celebrations & Songs
Melody: melodic contour, singing up & down; listen & sing
Dances: Teach JJJ (rhythm);
Lucy Locket, Snail, Bounce High (Shiloh),
Seasons
Percussion:
Drums, mallets, shakers

5. Year-End Assessment in April
Music Curriculum Map
Kindergarten
January
February
Meter: Patterns of 2: chanting & moving to patterns of 2
Meters: patterns of 4: sing and move to patterns of 4
Patterns of 3: chant, move, sing to patterns of 3
Instrument Families: introduce only: 1 day
Meter of 2 Dances: JJJ, percussion patterns (rhythm sticks)
Dynamics: loud, soft, reinforce dynamic levels in music
Year-End Assessment in April
March
April: assess
Tempo: introduce through moving and singing
Dynamics: Singing loud and soft
Playing loud and soft (instruments, etc.)
Identify fast and slow tempos (listen, move, sing)
Dances for K program: loud, soft, discuss dynamics in songs
Tempo changes around us: how it changes in all areas of life

6. Music Curriculum Map 2017-2018 Kindergarten June May
Duration: introduce long and short sounds
Performance: rehearsals, review dances, percussion & reflection
Fine tune music, dances, and class performances, procedures, script practice
Duration & Tempo (review & reinforce)
Playing long & short sounds: moving, playing, singing (performance music)
Found Sound, Timbre, Review