Music: Grade 2

Singing - Students will sing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand music between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Historical and Cultural Connections - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

Develop skill in singing, alone and with others, major/minor pentatonic and major/minor diatonic songs.

Develop proper vocal technique.

Develop skill in speaking/singing simple ostinati to produce harmony.

Perform steady beat and simple rhythm patterns in duple meter.

Play instruments using correct technique.

Play a simple ostinato to accompany a poem/song.

Improvise using the word rhythms of songs, poems, and stories.

Improvise, vocally, short melodic phrases.

Improvise creative movement within a musical context.

Compose short rhythm patterns.

Compose short melodies using pitches from the pentatonic scale.

Compose simple introductions and codas.

Read rhythm patterns written in traditional notation.

Read simple melodic patterns.

Notate simple rhythm patterns.

Recognize and label, as same and different, sections of music.

Recognize musical instruments and classify into families.

Describe the tempo and dynamics of musical selections.

Recognize and identify same and different phrases in a song.

Evaluate musical performances based on grade-appropriate criteria.

Develop and evaluate appropriate audience behaviors during a performance.

Recognize connections between music and dance, theatre, and/or visual art.

Recognize connections between music and language arts.

Perform and describe music of various historical periods and cultures.