Oaklawn
Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School
Music
Kindergarten
Learn to sing songs, keep a steady beat, learn rhythmic chants, and play
classroom instruments. Develop the concepts of fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low
and start/stop. Develop skills of listening for sounds that are long/short,
up/down, and staying the same. Begin learning instrumental playing skills, and
proper performance behavior in music class and school-wide performances.
First Grade
Continue activities to help distinguish between singing and speaking. Learn a
repertoire of songs and chants for movement activities and music games. Learn to
identify instruments and work on improving performance techniques.
Second Grade
Refine their in-tune singing and improvisation experiences both vocally and
instrumentally. Expand their understanding of music symbols and notes by
reading, writing, and performing notes and rhythms on bar instruments and piano
keyboards. Learn more complex movements and multicultural music games to make
the global connections of movement, form, music, and the visual arts.
Third Grade
Learn the importance of unison singing and add two-part group singing. Learn to
read and write music staff notation with letter names for pitches, and rhythmic
values. Work on more challenging instrumental playing, improvisation, and
composition. Learn to play recorders, hand bells, tone chimes, Orff bell
instruments and electronic piano keyboards. Encounter more performance-based
experiences.
Fourth Grade
Continue the study of basic music notation, rhythmic reading and writing skills,
and vocal/instrumental techniques for performance. Exposed to a general study of
music literature, historical periods, and styles of composers; and learn to
identify the instrumental families of the symphony orchestra. Opportunity to be
a part of a Performing Arts Showchoir.
Fifth Grade
Continue basic music instructions and skills. Study an overview of music
literature, historical periods, instruments, and styles of music composers. Be a
part of a Performing Arts Showchoir. Develop the head voice for solo singing and
group singing. Learn fundamentals of correct breathing, good diction, and proper
posture. Harmony is expanded through more complex descants, ostinatos, rounds,
and 2 & 2 part songs.