Grade K Common Core K.42

Through music activities, students sing and play instruments, become aware of music in their daily experience, and learn about music from various cultures. Creating movements in response to music helps them connect to dance and discern variations in rhythm, tempo, and dynamics.

Grade 1 Common Core 1.42

Singing and playing classroom instruments improve students' listening skills, accuracy and technique, and understanding of musical forms. By improvising simple rhythmic accompaniments and learning singing games from various cultures, students begin their creative work in music. They focus their listening and relate to music and dance by creating and performing movements.

Grade 2 Common Core 2.44

Students learn verbal syllables, such as sol and fa mi, for the degrees of the musical scale, called solfège. In doing so, they learn to read, write, and perform simple patterns of pitch, a process that leads to a whole world of listening to, playing, singing, and composing music.

Grade 3 Common Core 3.50

Students focus on rhythmic patterns, musical forms, melody, harmony, and timbre as they read, write and perform music. Their increased listening skills help them identify those qualities in music selections, in the four families of orchestral instruments, and in male and female adult voices. By singing from memory, they improve their accuracy and create rhythmic and melodic phrases. As students sing and play songs from diverse cultures, they can compare and contrast music from throughout the world. When they play and sing music, they are honing their ability to select and use specific criteria to judge the quality of a musical performance. Focusing on the use of the musical elements for their criteria, they can describe how the elements help the composer or performer to communicate an idea or mood in the music and can identify the use of similar elements, such as pattern and rhythm, in other art forms.

Grade 4 Common Core 4.50

Students not only sing and play melodies and accompaniments in various forms and from many cultures but also compose melodic patterns—a precursor to writing music. They also employ their expanding vocabulary of music and classify a variety of instruments according to the way sound is produced. By learning more about music from around the world, they can recognize the influence of various cultures on music. They also evaluate how practice and rehearsal improve their performance.

Grade 5 Common Core 5.55

Students analyze how different elements are used in music of various styles and from many cultures as they increase their musical skills by singing and playing instruments. They also learn to create simple melodies and read and write those melodies on the treble clef. And because of their increased knowledge of musical elements and vocabulary, they develop and apply appropriate criteria to support their opinions about specific musical selections.

Grade K Kidspeak

1. I show the steady beat and hear the music change.

2. I sing and play instruments.

3. I use music in work and play.

4. I move to the music.

5. I put on a show.

Grade 1 Kidspeak

1. I read and write music patterns, and I sing and play what I see. I hear the music change.

2. I make music by singing and playing instruments.

3. I use different kinds of music in work and play.

4. I move to what I hear in the music.

5. I practice to get better at my performance.

Grade 2 Kidspeak

1. I sing and play music from the notes I read and write. I hear the music change.

2. I make music by singing and playing instruments.

3. I use and talk about different kinds of music in work and play.

4. I move to what I hear in the music and talk about what I like.

5. I practice to get better at my performance and learn about people who perform as their job.

Grade 3 Kidspeak

1. I sing and play music from the notes I read and write. I talk about what I hear in the music.

2. I make music by singing and playing instruments by myself and with my friends.

3. I explore how people use music in their lives now and how they used it in the past.

4. I move to what I hear in the music. I listen to other people's music and decide if they did it right.

5. I explain the things that are the same in music, dance, theatre and visual arts.

Grade 4 Kidspeak

1. I sing and play music from the notes I read and write. I talk about what I hear in the music.

2. I make music from my country and around the world by singing and playing instruments by myself and with my friends.

3. I explore how music is a part of California's history.

4. I move to and talk about what I hear in the music. I listen to other people's music and decide if they did it right.

5. I practice to improve my performance. I decide how to make it better.

Grade 5 Kidspeak

1. I read, write, sing and play different notes and talk about what I hear in the music.

2. I make music from my country and around the world by singing and playing instruments by myself and with my friends.

3. I explore the way music is connected to all the cultures in our country.

4. I listen to other people's music and decide what I like and why I like it.

5. I explain how music is interesting to people.