Students at this primary level focus on moving and singing with
a beat. Deciphering high and low pitches in simple songs,
students sing independently and in a group. Students echo and
create rhythm patterns using non-pitched instruments,
distinguish between beat and rhythm, follow tempo and dynamic
levels and respond to a conductor. Students learn how music can
illustrate a story and represent a character. Students explore
different instruments and how they are grouped into families by
how the sound is made. Students at this intermediate level focus
on music notation. Students read whole, half, quarter, eighth
and sixteenth notes and rests, triplets, doted rhythms and duple
and triple meters. Students create music feely and within given
parameters using various pitched and non-pitched instruments.
Students read rhythms and short melodies from music notation,
identify rhythm and beat through rhythmic dictation. Students
use musical terms to describe tempo and dynamics and use these
terms to perform music with