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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