Pre-School, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade Curriculum

• Focus on Singing and Playing Orff Instruments
• Learning Simple Songs and Rhymes
• Exploring different Instruments and their sounds
• Exploring fast and slow tempos
• Exploring loud and soft dynamics
• Improvisation on the Orff Instruments

2nd Grade and 3rd Grade Curriculum

• Focus on Singing and Playing Orff Instruments
• Learning Songs
• Exploring different instruments and their sounds
• Exploring various tempos
• Exploring different dynamics
• Identifying Eighth Notes, Quarter Notes, Half Notes, and Quarter Rests
• Improvising (on Orff instruments) and Writing rhythms that contain Eighth Notes, Quarter Notes, Half Notes and Quarter Rests.

4th and 5th Grade Curriculum

• Singing and Playing Orff Instruments and Recorder
• Identifying different instrument
• Identifying different tempos
• Identifying different dynamics
• Identifying Notes on the Staff
• Writing and performing rhythms that contain Eighth Notes, Quarter Notes, Half Notes, Whole Notes, Sixteenth Notes, and quarter rests
• Learning about different styles of music; Jazz, Folk, etc.

6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Curriculum

• Defining the Elements of Music (Melody, Harmony, Tempo, Dynamics, Form, Genre, Rhythm, Timbre, and Texture) and using them to describe a piece of music.
• Describing the Purposes for Music (Recreational, Ceremonial, Artistic Expression)
• Basic Music Theory: Rhythms, Notes on the Staff, Triad Construction
• Studying Historical Music Periods: Greek, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century