Curriculum

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Teacher: Amandalin Hunter Grade: 2 Course: General Music, meets once/week


Academic
Musical elements
Theme (unit
Assessment/Performance
Time period
title)
Sep. Nov.
Printed music, AB,
How music
Reading lyrics, singing
ABA form, rondo,
looks: Form
games, teacher observation,
student responses, identify
different forms
Sep. Nov.
Reading music
How music
Identify 4/4 meter, whole
notation, Identifying
looks: Reading notes, whole rests, bar lines,
music symbols
reading rhythms as a group,
teacher observations
Sep. Nov.
Tempo, dynamics,
How music
Recognize loud - soft, fast
leaping vs stepwise
sounds
slow, leaping stepwise,
mimic tempo in moving
slower or faster,
Dec. Feb.
Loud soft, high low, Instrument
Visual and auditory
classify families,
Families
recognition of instruments.
Dec. Feb.
Music vocabulary
Music around
Student responses,
the world
describing music
March - May Hand symbol and
Melodic
Name notes from middle C
singing scales, reading Direction
to G
and notation
March - May Using singing voice,
Using our Voice Singing and speaking in 2
matching pitch and
parts
rhythm, call and
response, solfege and
hand symbols