Second Grade
Second Grade Music Curriculum
Second 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
- match pitch and develop healthy singing voice/head voice
- identify and demonstrate understanding of do, mi, so, la
- identify and demonstrate rhythms including ta, titi, rest, ta-a
- identify and demonstrate four beat meter
- sing simple 2-part rounds
- identify and demonstrate understanding of steps and skips
- use musical vocabulary to describe music
- move to music through 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]