- Improvise simple melodies vocally and/or instrumentally
- Select appropriate instruments to compliment music of various cultures
- Create dance to express musical ideas
- Create introductions, interludes and codas
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- Sing 2-part rounds
- Respond to cues of conductor relating to dynamics, phrasing and interpretation
- Perform rounds on pitched or non-pitched instruments
- Sing songs , play musical games and perform dances from various cultures
- Demonstrate good singing habits: posture, breathing
- Develop awareness of articulation and diction
- Sing songs in pentatonic, major and minor
- Demonstrate appropriate performance behavior
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- Identify basic elements of form: AB forms, verse/ refrain, rondo
- Recognize & describe timbre of instruments, orchestral & folk, multicultural
- Use appropriate terminology to describe basic elements of music
- Devise simple criteria for evaluating music
- Identify ways in which the elements & principles of music are interrelated with other disciplines
- Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
- Compare/contrast compositions
- Begin to associate music with specific historical periods and composers
- Follow a listening map
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- Read standard notation for quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter notes and half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, whole rests
- Take simple melodic and rhythmic notation
- Read in ¾ meter
- Write musical ideas in standard or nonstandard notation
- Identify symbols for dynamics
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