Arizona Grade 2 Music Standards

The Grade 2 standards

Creating 6

• MU.CR.1.2a

  a. Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas (e.g. beat, meter, and rhythm).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)

• MU.CR.1.2b

  b. With appropriate guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (e.g. major, minor, modal, and pentatonic) and meters (e.g. duple, triple, simple, and compound). 2nd

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23); Sixths Part I (3, Wk 24)

• MU.CR.2.2a

  a. Demonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting musical ideas (e.g. patterns and ideas).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22)

• MU.CR.2.2b

  b. Use notation to document personal or collective musical ideas (e.g. sequencing). 2nd

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8)

• MU.CR.3.2a

  a. Interpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

• MU.CR.3.2b

  b.Present a final version of personal or collective musical ideas, utilizing elements of expression, to peers or informal audience.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Singing (2, Wk 21); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

Responding 2

• MU.RE.7.2a

  a. List and explain personal musical interests.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22)

• MU.RE.7.2b

  b. Demonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (e.g. meter and tonality). 2nd MU.RE.8.2 a. Demonstrate knowledge of expressive attributes and how they support creators’/ performers’ expressive intent (e.g. tempo, dynamics, mood, and emotion). 2nd MU.RE.9.2 a. Apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20)

Connecting 4

• MU.CN.10.2a

  a. Express personal preferences in music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20)

• MU.CN.10.2b

  b. Explore various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g. songs of celebration, game songs, marches, T.V., movie, and video game sound tracks, dance music, and work songs). Anchor Standard #11 - Re 2nd

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); C Major Songs - What song is it? (2, Wk 27); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22)

• MU.CN.11.2a

  a. Explore relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. such as dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Recorder King/Queen 2 - Introduction to Transposing (4, Wk 24); Merrily We Roll Along (PK, Wk 18); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18)

• MU.CN.11.2b

  b. Explore how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)