District 65 Curricular Music Goals

Kindergarten Goals First Grade Goals Second Grade Goals

By the end of kindergarten, By the end of first grade, By the end of second grade,
students should be able to: students should be able to: students should be able to:

• Identify  and  demonstrate  the   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an  

• Identify  and  demonstrate  an   understanding  of  half  note  and  half  
understanding  of  fast  vs.  slow   rhythm  of  the  words  and  how  it  
differs  from  a  steady  beat   rest  rhythmic  patterns  
• Identify  and  demonstrate  an   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an  
understanding  of  loud  vs.  soft   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an  
understanding  of  a  quarter  note’s   understanding  of  the  melodic  notes  
• Identify  and  demonstrate  an   do,  re,  mi,  sol,  and  la    
understanding  of  high  vs.  low   value  (ta)  
• Identify  and  demonstrate  an   • Recognize  steps,  skips,  leaps,  and  
• Improvise  words  and   repeated  notes  in  melodic  lines  
motions  to  known  songs   understanding  of  a  quarter  rest’s  
value   • Identify  the  instruments  of  the  
• Identify  and  demonstrate  the   orchestra  and  their  families  
difference  between  a  signing   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an  
understanding  of  the  rhythm  of   • Perform  a  simple  bordun  on  barred  
voice,  whisper  voice,   instruments  (performing  a  beat  
speaking  voice,  and  shouting   paired  eighth  notes  (ti-­‐ti)  
• Identify  and  demonstrate  an   using  do  and  sol  on  a  xylophone)  
voice   • Perform  circle  and  partner  dances  
• Identify  classroom   understanding  of  the  melodic  
notes  sol,  mi  and  la   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an  
percussion  instruments   understanding  of  AB  form  
• Perform  a  steady  beat   • Identify  and  perform  on  
classroom  percussion  instruments   • Sing  and  maintain  simple  ostinati  
• State  a  personal  interest  in  a   (repeated  rhythmic  or  melodic  
musical  selection   using  proper  technique  
• Composing  and  arranging  using   patterns)  
rhythmic  notation   • Describing  music  as  largo  (slow),  
• Identify  the  verse  and  refrain  in  a   moderato  (medium)  or  presto  (fast)    
song   • Describing  music  as  piano  (soft),  
• Refine  performance  based  on  peer   mezzo  (medium)  or  forte  (loud)    
feedback   • Identify    time  signatures  
 District 65 Curricular Music Goals
Fifth Grade Goals
Third Grade Goals By the end of fifth grade, students
By the end of third grade, students should be able to:
should be able to:

Fourth Grade Goals

• Identify  the  absolute  note   By the end of fourth grade, students • Create  and  perform  an  
names  on  the  treble  clef   should be able to: ostinato  (repeated  
• Produce  a  quality  tone  on   rhythmic  or  melodic  
the  recorder     • Identify  and  demonstrate   pattern)  on  any  given  
• Identify  and  play  notes  from   syncopated  rhythms     instrument  
low  D  to  B  on  the  recorder   • Identify  and  demonstrate  an   • Analyze  and  compare  
• Improvise  on  the  recorder   understanding  of  the   stylitic  elements  of  musical  
• Perform  Native  American   pentatonic  and  major  scales   pieces  
dances  and  songs   • Demonstrate  conducting   • Identify  AB/ABA  
• Identify  the  differences   patterns  in  two,  three,  and   /Rondo/Theme  and  
between  staccato  and  legato   four  beat  meters   Variation  forms  and  
• Describe  the  social  and   • Improvise  in  a  pentatonic   demonstrate  through  
historical  context  of  music   scale  on  barred  instruments   composition  
• Addressing  technical   (such  as  the  xylophone)   • Perform  ethnic  folk  dances  
challenges  using  known   • Perform  ethnic  folk  dances     • Identify  and  describe  
strategies   • Recognize  and  experience   famous  composers  
• Identifying  and  naming  the   specific    composers  and   • Identify  and  describe  
parts  of  the  staff   compositions  and  their   instruments  from  around  
• Major  verses  minor  tonality   contributions  to  music  today   the  world  
• Identify  and  demonstrate   • Identify  and  demonstrate   • Identify  and  demonstrate  
the  performance  of  dotted   sixteenth  note  patterns   combinations  of  sixteenth  
half  notes  and  whole  notes   • Identify  and  use  a  diatonic   and  eighth  note  patterns    
scale  in  performance