1st Grade- What they should know and do

First Grade

What Should They Know?

Melody:

sol-mi-la
mi-re-do
solo singing
pitch matching
high/low
ascending/descending
can sing a song as a class after hearing it 6-8 times (or more). Students can sing with teacher while learning it.

Harmony:

singing with accompaniment

simple rhythmic accompaniment


Rhythm:

steady beat
simple rhythms (tah tah tah rest); tah; rest;
Beat vs rhythm
Simple building bricks: tah tah; tah rest; ti-ti tah (second half of the year), half note (big beat)
Dynamics: loud, med, soft


Tempo: fast, med, slow

Meter:

2/4
experience moving in many

Form:

same and different
AB
ABA

Timbre:

4 types of voice (whisper/outside voice, talk/sing)
Types of instruments (woods, metals, skins; rhythm/melodic)
Sound effects to poems and stories

Movement:

based in play: walk, run (not usually used inside unless it’s safe), jog, tiptoe, hop, jump, leap, gallop, skip, backwards (safely), sideways, slide, etc…
Alternate movement
Usually do not know left from right
Steady beat movements
Slow and fast movements
Use all space (high, med, low)
Beginning circle dances (listening for directions within the song, ex. Old Brass Wagon)
Folk Dance: circle to the left, circle to the right, two hand turn, forward and back, promenade (advanced)
Instrumentation:

Exploratory in nature on unpitched and pitched instruments
Continue to work on good playing technique
Can play a simple bordun on barred (pitched instruments), two hands together, steady beat, second half of the year
Families of instruments
Other:

Folk Songs
Play Parties (dances)
Patriotic Songs
Picture books
Animals; trains (transportation, cars, airplanes, boats); ocean (sailors, sea, fish), seasons,
learning how to sing alone (hello song)
opposites (fast/slow; sound/silence; high/low; loud/soft)


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