Primary (Grades K-2)

Student will sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others

Student will read and notate music

Students will create music

Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music

Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.

Sing accompanied, unaccompanied, and in unison

Maintain a steady beat

Respond through movement to high and low sounds

Sing and play instruments with acceptable tone quality, pitch, and proper posture

Demonstrate the repetition inherent in canon form by performing a two part round using speech, movement, body percussion, and singing

Watch the director.

Sing competently and confidently in worship assemblies.

Sing well from memory a basic repertoire of Catholic liturgical or traditional music.  

Use symbols or icons to illustrate beat and sound/silence

Read and perform rhythmic patterns using quarter notes, quarter rests, half notes, and half rests.

Respond to duple and triple meter through movement and by using symbols.

Select appropriate sounds to accompany ideas, stories, and songs.

Create rhythm patterns for introductions and ostinato accompaniments to familiar songs

Improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using vocal sounds, body percussion, movement and instrument sounds.

Improvise in question-answer form on rhythmic and melodic classroom instruments.

Develop the ability to create a melody to common liturgical responses such as, “alleluia” and “amen”

Respond through movement to high and low sounds, fast and slow tempo, and loud and soft dynamics

Respond verbally using same or different when given two pitches, an interval of a third or larger.

Identify musical examples as vocal sounds, instrumental sounds, and/or environmental sounds

Demonstrate an awareness of environmental sounds by verbalizing the sounds heard around them.

Identify through movement, simple A B form

Categorize selected classroom instruments by how sound is produced.

Echo rhythm and melodic patterns.

Identify a variety of classroom instruments

Sing, play and move to music from different traditions and cultures.

Listen to a repertoire of musical examples that represent varied cultures, styles, and historical periods

Listen to books and stories about composers, music, and sound.

Distinguish between liturgical music of contemporary composers and those of earlier periods

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior.