Kindergarten

Learning Targets

I can identify quarter notes and quarter rests.

I can show the difference between fast and slow.

I can show the difference between high and low

pitches

I can move to music.

I can show the difference between loud and soft.

I can read quarter notes, quarter rests and

eighth notes.

I can sing and show the hand signs for “so” and
“mi”.
 1st
Grade
Learning Targets
I can clap a steady beat to music

I can identify long and short sounds.

I can read quarter notes, quarter rests and

eighth notes.

I can sing and show the hand signs for “so”, “mi”
and “la”.

I can identify notes on a line or space.

I can demonstrate AB and ABA form.

I can perform a simple bordun.

I can play a simple ostinato.

 I can sing a round.
I can show the direction the notes go in a
song (pitches move up, down, stay the same).

I can recognize the dynamic marking loud (forte)

and soft (piano).

I can show the difference between fast (allegro)

and slow (largo).

I can use my voice in four different ways – speak,

whisper, call and sing.

I can match pitches with my voice.

I can improvise a melody on the Orff Instruments.

I can improvise simple rhythms.

I can demonstrate appropriate audience

behavior.

I can sing songs from all over the world.

 2 nd
Grade
Learning Targets
 

I can sing two part canons.

I can read steps, skips and repeats on the

music staff.

I can explain a pentatonic scale

(do-re-mi-so-la)

I can show good singing alignment.

I can perform a musical question and answer.

I can explain piano, forte, crescendo and

decrescendo.

I can improvise rhythms and melodies.

I can read rhythms that include quarter notes,
quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes and
half rests.

I can read Do-Re-Me-Sol-La on the music staff.

I can identify the sounds of the orchestra

instrument families.

I can demonstrate appropriate audience

behavior.

I can sing songs from all over the world.

 3 rd
Grade
Learning Targets
 

I can play level, alternating and crossover

borduns on the Orff Instruments.

I can sing do to do, using solfege hand signs.

I can sing partner songs.

I can perform three part canons.

I can read and play rhythms that include

quarter, eighth, sixteenth, half, whole, dotted-
half as quarter, half, and whole rests.

I can sing songs from all over the world.

I can compose my own rhythm patterns.

 I can improvise short songs and instrumental
pieces.

I can read octave leaps.

I can identify the instrument families of the

orchestra.

I can demonstrate appropriate audience

behavior.

I can recognize major and minor.

 
 4 th
Grade
Learning Targets
 

I can improvise using call and response.

I can compose music in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time

signatures.

I can recognize and identify music in rondo

form.

I can recognize soprano, alto, tenor and bass

voices.

I can sing four-part canons.

I can perform music in staccato and legato.

 I can perform rhythm patterns using quarter,
eighth, sixteenth (individual & combinations),
half, whole and dotted-half notes and rests.

I can read, perform and compose music using

2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meters.

I can name the notes on the treble clef.

I can explain Rondo form.

I can sings songs from all over the world.

 
 5 th
Grade
Learning Targets
 

I can improvise using call and response.

I can perform dynamic levels of piano, mezzo

piano, mezzo forte.

I can recognize major and minor chords by ear.

I can read and perform syncopated rhythms.

I can read and perform music in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and

6/8 time signatures.

I can sing rounds, canons, partner songs and

two-part harmony.

I can accompany songs using I, IV, and V chords.

I can play C, F, G, am, C7 and G7 chords on the
ukulele.

I can explain the 12-bar blues.

I can perform music of Minnesota Native

American tribes and communities.