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FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month Content September Singing Skills Students will: Review and reinforce proper speaking and singing techniques 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Sing in complete phrases 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing ascending and descending scale patterns recognizing step-wise progressions Sing, echo and demonstrate Kodaly hand signals for the syllables do, re, mi, sol and la Beat & Rhythm Students will: Use body percussion to keep an accurate and steady beat while echoing a song Walk, tip-toe and march to the beat of a hand drum and piano music Skip and gallop to appropriate rhythm patterns of various tempi Reading & Notation Standard Students will: Visually and aurally recognize quarter and eight note patterns Walk and jog to the ‘walking note’ and ‘running note’ patterns of quarter and eighth notes played on the hand drum and chords on the piano Read by sight, recognize and define quarter and eight note rhythmic patterns on notation charts Clap and pat quarter and eighth note rhythm patterns by sight from notation charts 1.5 Sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of a conductor 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO l Month October Content Singing Skills Students will: Sing ‘question and answer songs Standard 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Sing and perform circle games Beat & Rhythm Sing Halloween tone drill games 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing Halloween songs with step and skip melodic patterns 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests Students will: Move to the steady beat of the metronome at various tempi 5.5 Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music occurrences while singing or listening to music Use whole body movement to respond to the beat of meters 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests Walk, tip-toe, march, skip and gallop to appropriate beat and rhythms in Halloween songs Reading & Notation Students will: Notate simple quarter and eighth note rhythm patterns corresponding to Halloween words and phrases Compose Halloween speech patterns using simple quarter and eighth note patterns Use body percussion and total body movement to perform Halloween speech compositions 2.2 Use a system (syllables, numbers, or letters) to read and sing at sight simple pitch notation in the treble clef FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month Content November Singing Beat & Rhythm Playing Instruments Skills Students will: Sing cumulative songs and circle game melodies Standard Sing Veteran’s Day songs 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Sing traditional American Thanksgiving Day songs 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Students will: Perform movements to represent the beat and rhythmic values of various characters and directions in circle games 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods Perform circle games to a steady beat using concentric circles 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and rests Students will: Play rhythm stick accompaniments to traditional Thanksgiving Day music in steady beat and simple rhythmic patterns Improvisation Students will: Create body movements to represent the various characters and directional progressions in Thanksgiving holiday songs and song story 3.4 Echo and perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments 5.5 Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music occurrences while singing or listening to music Month Content December Singing FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Skills Students will: Sing a variety of December holiday cultural songs from around the world 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Sing and identify upward and downward melodic tonal patterns in Hanukkah and Christmas songs 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing and identify steps and skips in Christmas holiday tone bell music 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods Sing December holiday songs identifying and using appropriate dynamics to match the flavor and mood of the song Beat & Rhythm Playing Instruments Standard Students will: 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests Use body percussion to keep a steady beat while using different tempi in December holiday music 3.2 Play expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing and articulation, and interpretation Perform simple repeated rhythm pattern accompaniments to Hanukkah songs using rhythm sticks, claves and hand drums 3.4 Echo and perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments Students will: Perform simple rhythmic accompaniments to December holiday music using jingle bells, sleigh bells, tone bells, chime tree, triangles and finger cymbals Create rhythmic interludes for holiday song – story using percussion instruments 4.2 Improvise and compose simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month January Content Singing Skills Students will: Sing counting action songs in major and minor keys 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Read and vocalize melodies about Martin Luther King Jr. 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing descant to accompany Martin Luther King Jr. songs 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods Sing action song games demonstrating melodic direction and contour Beat & Rhythm Students will: Use body percussion to keep a steady beat during a student name game Use clapping and tapping to recognize and perform the simple rhythm patterns that correspond with students’ first and last names Meter & Pitch Students will: Conduct in 2/4 meter while playing American play – party song-game Identify pitches as higher or lower, in relation to each pitch played on the piano Improvisation Standard Students will: Create and perform body movement patterns that appropriately accompany the meter, tempo, style and mood represented in Martin Luther King Jr. holiday songs 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 2.4 Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns performed by the teacher 5.5 Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music occurrences while singing or listening to music FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month February Content Singing Beat & Rhythm Skills Standard Students will: Sing and play circle games with individual student leader- class echo- response style 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Develop individual vocal confidence singing solo and in a group Develop body awareness and number counting sequencing 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing songs related to Groundhog’s Day, Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods Students will: Perform a steady beat accompaniment to circle games using clapping, stamping and tapping 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests Use body percussion and mouth sounds to accent a two-beat steady rhythm pattern as the ending of a phrase in songs Meter & Pitch Students will: Walk and conduct in 2/4 meter while playing circle game Use arm motions to identify upward and downward contour of pitches in a melodic phrase Improvisation Students will: Create and develop individual sign language to represent words and phrase in Valentine’s songs 2.4 Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns performed by the teacher 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form 5.5 Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music occurrences while singing or listening to music FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month March Content Singing Skills Students will: Sing cumulative word and action songs Sing and perform ‘The Lion And The Lamb’ or similar sound story Standard 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing tone drill games with corresponding props relating to St. Patrick’s Day Beat & Rhythm Students will: Use body percussion to keep a steady beat accompaniment to Irish music played on the piano and CD’s Walk, tip-toe, jog and hop to the beat and to simple rhythmic patterns that imitate Irish holiday words Melody & Texture Students will: Listen, identify, compare and contrast a simple Irish melody played alone and played with a counter melody on piano Create and perform simple dance steps to represent the recurring melody and added counter melody of an Irish tunes Improvisation Create musical sounds to accompany sound – story poem Use simple percussion instruments to embellish sound story poem 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 4.2 Improvise and compose simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form 4.3 Improvise and compose simple rhythmic variations and simple melodic embellishments on familiar melodies FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month April Content Singing Skills Students will: Sing and interpret lyrics through a singing game Sing and respond to music feeling music that moves in two’s Sing solo parts while class echoes and responds through dramatization Sing solo echo parts played on piano Sing in class ensemble echoing simple play – party melody excerpts Beat & Rhythm Students will: Recognize, feel and perform two beats per measure in 2/4 meter using body percussion Begin to identify the starts and stops and the sounds and silences – (rests) – in music played on the piano and CD’s Melody & Texture Students will: Recognize and identify a sol – mi and sol – la – mi tonal pattern by ear Discover, recognize and identify the interval of an octave by sight and ear Begin to identify melody sung as a ‘round’ by listening to songs on CD’s Instrument Playing Students will: Play sol-mi and sol – la – mi melodic interval patterns on the individual tone bells Play and echo simple rhythmic melodic patterns on the tone bells Standard 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form 3.4 Echo and perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month May Content Singing Skills Standard Students will: Sing traditional May-pole song 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture Sing a cumulative American folk tale song recognizing and singing the ‘refrain’ and ‘verses’ by sight and sound 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation Sing patriotic songs related to the Memorial Day holiday 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods Sing echo-response tone drills related to springtime Beat & Rhythm Dynamics & Form Students will: Walk and march to the steady and strong beats in 4/4 meter Notate the rhythm of the words – ( in ‘walking – running’ picture notation on the white board) – of American folk tale song Play a steady, strong and even beat on the simple percussion instruments in 4/4 meter as an accompaniment to Memorial Day songs Students will: Discover, recognize and identify AB Form Identify phrases in music by performing corresponding arm movements for the length of the musical sentence Identify loud and soft musical passages while listening to music played on the piano and CD’s Identify fast and slow melodic phrases played on the piano and CD’s 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 2.4 Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns performed by the teacher 3.1 Play independently with accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriate technique, and correct posture 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form FARMINGTON RIVER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADE TWO Month June Content Singing Skills Students will: Sing cumulative American folk songs with melody alone in classroom ensemble Sing songs for the Flag Day holiday Sing early American folk song game Sing review songs from Grade 2 Sing Chorus audition practice scale, pitch matching exercise and song Beat & Rhythm Students will: Use body percussion to accompany the animal sounds in cumulative American folk songs Use finger, hand, arm and total body movements to accompany the animal sounds in cumulative American folk songs Dynamics & Form Students will: Listen, compare and contrast the melodies of the ‘refrain’ and the ‘verses’ of American folk and patriotic songs Listen and identify the melody and the counter melody of an American folk song Listen and identify the texture of an American patriotic song as ‘thin’ or ‘thick’ when played on the piano demonstrating melody alone and melody with various accompaniments Standard 1.1 Sing independently, maintaining accurate intonation, steady tempo, rhythmic accuracy, appropriately-produced sound (timbre), clear diction, and correct posture 1.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation 1.3 Sing from memory a variety of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures and historical periods 2.1 Demonstrate and respond to: the beat, division of the beat, meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), and rhythmic notation, including half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and rests 5.1 Perceive, describe, and respond to basic elements of music, including beat, tempo, rhythm, meter, pitch, melody, texture, dynamics, harmony, and form 5.2 Listen to and describe aural examples of music of various styles, genres, cultural and historical periods, identifying expressive qualities, instrumentation, and cultural and/or geographic context 5.5 Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music occurrences while singing or listening to music