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Updated New Curriculum - I Can Statements 2020
Updated New Curriculum - I Can Statements 2020
Rhythmic Learning
I can keep a steady beat
I can identify long and short sounds
I can identify the difference between even/uneven
I can visually identify icons representing one and two sounds per beat
Melodic Learning
I can explore whisper, speaking, singing, and shouting voices
I can explore different sounds with my voice
I can sing high and low sounds
I can experience melodic direction - up, down, and same
I can match pitch by myself
I can match pitch in a group
I can participate in echo singing
I can understand musical group terminology – solo
Expressive Elements
I can identify form - same and different
I can participate in echo and call and response activities
I can identify loud and soft sounds
I can find and perform patterns in music
I can identify fast and slow sounds
I can identify changes in music through movement
I can play a variety of classroom instruments – pitched and un-pitched percussion instruments
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year
Rhythmic Learning
I can perceive the difference between beat and rhythm
I can use ta, ti-ti, and rest to speak, sing, move, and play rhythms
I can identify a quarter note, eighth note pair, and quarter rest
I can compose music using ta, ti-ti, and rest with my voice, body, and instruments
I can play and sing rhythmic patterns to the steady beat by myself and with others
I can play a bordun as an accompaniment
Melodic Learning
I can sing songs with mi-so & mi-so-la
I can identify melodic direction – up, down, same
I can sing songs with steps, skips, leaps, and repeated notes
I can demonstrate appropriate vocal technique (head voice)
I can understand musical group terminology – solo, duet
Expressive Elements
I can identify form – AB
I can improvise and compose music by myself and in a group using my voice, body, and
instruments
I can identify changes in dynamics
I can identify changes in tempi
I can use language to describe unpitched percussion instrument sounds
I can internalize music
I can improvise movement
I can model and echo body percussion
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year
Rhythmic Learning
I can identify a half note and half rest
I can use ta, ti-ti, ta-ah, and rest to speak, sing, move, and play rhythms
I can identify measures and bar lines
I can feel the difference between 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 meter signatures
I can speak, sing, move, and play to ostinato patterns
I can improvise and compose simple rhythmic patterns
I can play a bordun and a broken bordun as an accompaniment
I can identify a strong beat vs. a weak beat
Melodic Learning
I can sing songs with do-re-mi-so-la/pentatonic scale
I can identify steps, skips, leaps, and repeated notes
I can perform a question and/or answer in call and response singing
I can use my voice to follow melodic direction
I can speak and sing in 2-parts
I can understand musical group terminology – solo, duet, trio
Expressive Elements
I can identify form – AB, ABA, and rondo
I can identify and use forte & piano
I can identify visually and aurally the four instrument families – woodwinds, brass, percussion,
strings
I can identify and use the repeat sign
I can identify and use crescendo and diminuendo
I can identify and use the fermata
I can identify the staff and treble clef
I can identify songs in other languages
I can identify songs from other cultures
I can perform music expressively using poetry and literature
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year
Rhythmic Learning
I can identify the whole note, dotted half note, and whole rest
I can use ta, ti-ti, ta-ah, ta-ah-ah, ta-ah-ah-ah, and rest to speak, sing, move, and play rhythms
I can improvise and compose simple rhythmic patterns using all known notation
I can identify, compose, and improvise using body percussion
I can feel and identify the difference between 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 meter signatures
Melodic Learning
I can sing songs with so,-la,-do-re-mi-so-la-do’
I can speak and sing in 2 and 3-parts
I can understand the difference between high and low vocal registers
I can understand musical group terminology – solo, duet, trio, quartet, ensemble
Expressive Elements
I can identify line and space notes
I can identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass instruments
I can identify dynamic markings – pianissimo, piano, forte, fortissimo
I can perceive tempo – andante
I can speak, sing, move, and play expressively with appropriate tempo, dynamics, phrasing, and
interpretation
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year
Rhythmic Learning
I can use rhythm syllables for all known musical notation to speak, sing, move, and play rhythms
I can use and identify sixteenth note rhythmic groupings, separated eighth notes, dotted quarter
and syncopation to speak, sing, move, and play
I can play octaves and cross-overs on barred instruments
Melodic Learning
I can sing songs with so,-la,-ti,-do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do’
I can sing songs in the major scale
I can identify notes on ledger lines
I can visually and aurally identify an octave interval
Expressive Elements
I can identify dynamic markings – pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo
I can perceive and distinguish tempo – largo, andante, presto
I can identify and create form when I speak, sing, move, and play – AB, ABA, rondo, AABA, ABBA,
ABAB, and ABCA
I can identify absolute pitches of the lines and spaces on the treble clef staff
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year
Rhythmic Learning
I can use rhythm syllables for all known musical notation to speak, sing, move, and play rhythms
I can use and identify triplet, dotted-eighth-sixteenth, sixteenth-dotted-eighth, and eighth rest
to speak, sing, move, and play
I can identify the bass clef symbol
I can aurally identify the difference between major and minor tonalities
I can feel and identify 6/8 time signature
I can read and play simple melodies on the recorder
Melodic Learning
I can sing songs using known solfege
I can aurally identify simple chord progressions using I/IV/V
I can visually identify the notation of a known song
Expressive Elements
I can identify all known forms and theme and variation
I can read music that uses Da Capo, Da Segno, Coda, Da Segno al Fine, and 1 st & 2nd ending
I can perceive and distinguish tempo – largo, andante, moderato, allegro, presto
I can connect historical events with correlating musical pieces
I can use musical terminology to evaluate myself and others in musical performances
I can perform in a public musical performance at least once a year