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First Grade

First Grade Music Curriculum

First graders receive music instruction from a credentialed music specialist one day per week for 30 minutes. Students learn about music through lively activities including listening, singing, and moving to music. Children’s books, manipulatives, and singing games are incorporated into music lessons to help children learn basic music skills:

  • sing age-appropriate songs from memory
  • identify and demonstrate the difference between beat and rhythm
  • match pitch through echoing of short melodic patterns
  • identify and demonstrate an understanding of rhythms including ta, titi, rest
  • identify and demonstrate two beat rhythm ostinati
  • sing simple 2 part rounds
  • identify and demonstrate an understanding of two beat meter, measure, bar line, double bar line, and repeat sign
  • identify and demonstrate an understanding of melodic notes so and mi
  • move to music in simple dances and singing games
 

Assessment Guidelines Report Cards are designed to give you an understanding of how well your child is meeting the music standards. Although music encompasses many areas of knowledge and abilities, each grade level will only be assessed on a few integral music skills per quarter. The music score on the report card reflects an average of the specific skills that were assessed for that quarter. It is important to understand that the music grade is no longer a conduct/effort grade, but rather an assessment of your child’s ability to accomplish the given music standard.

An Advanced (4) student will:

  • Consistently demonstrate the application of music standards in other situations and areas of learning Always participate effectively in all music activities 
  • Demonstrate mastery of all music skills
 

A Proficient (3) student will:

  • Always participate effectively in all music activities
  • Demonstrate mastery of most music skills
 

A student that is Approaching Proficiency (2):

  • Sometimes participates effectively in music activities
  • Demonstrates mastery of some music skills
 

A student that is falling Below Expectations (1):

  • Rarely participates effectively in music activities
  • Demonstrates mastery of few music skills

 

Judith Chan, Vocal/General Music Specialist

Phone: (310) 551-5104

Email: [email protected]