Maine Grade 1 Music Standards

The Grade 1 standards

Responding 2

• ME.B.A1.1

  With guidance, identify characteristics and themes within diverse music experiences.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Hi High C (K, Wk 11)

• ME.B.A2.1

  Respond to expressive qualities of music through movement.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29)

Connecting 3

• ME.B.B1.1

  With guidance, identify emotions and personal connections that relate to a selected piece of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Do, Re, Mi (K, Wk 9); Hi High C (K, Wk 11)

• ME.B.B2.1

  Explore how music relates to other disciplines when experiencing music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Types of Ukuleles (5, Wk 2); Recorder Lord/Lady 3 - G Major Arpeggio (4, Wk 20); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4)

• ME.B.B3.1

  With guidance, experience repertoire from a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts by singing, moving, and playing in a manner appropriate to the context of the music.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 15); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8)

Performing 10

• ME.B.C1.1.a

  With guidance, sing in head voice and demonstrate types of voices.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2); Do Re Mi Intro (PK, Wk 16); Singing (2, Wk 21)

• ME.B.C1.1.b

  With guidance, perform on a variety of classroom instruments with proper posture and basic techniques.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

• ME.B.C1.1.c

  With guidance, perform a variety of melodies and call-and-response songs.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 28); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Steps (2, Wk 6)

• ME.B.C2.1

  Share short songs as a group with others, in formal and/or informal settings. With guidance, apply teacher-provided feedback.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Resolutions (3, Wk 28); Harmonizing Part III (3, Wk 31); Recorder Page 3 - B Shield Patterns (4, Wk 3)

• ME.B.D1.1

  As a group, audiate and perform the motions of a poem and/or song.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: F Major Chord (2, Wk 15); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35)

• ME.B.D2.1.a

  With guidance, show melodic contour and echo a variety of tonal patterns and/or fragments vocally.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi Review (1, Wk 5); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

• ME.B.D2.1.b

  With guidance, maintain a steady pulse in duple and triple meter.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19)

• ME.B.D2.1.c

  With guidance, identify music opposites using applicable descriptors.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); Melodies with Frere Jacques (5, Wk 29); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13)

• ME.B.F1.1

  Explore cooperative skills (individual and group responsibilities) in order to perform as a group.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major & G Major Chords (1, Wk 20); C Major Scale (1, Wk 31); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)

• ME.B.F2.1

  With guidance, perform words, motions, and/or instruments of songs and poems in time with the group.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: G Major Chord (1, Wk 22); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

Creating 3

• ME.B.E1.1

  With guidance, improvise/create short answers, rhythmic patterns, beat motions, and/or word substitutions.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet & Blueberry (1, Wk 26); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Rhythm Review Part III (3, Wk 5)

• ME.B.E2.1

  With guidance, choose visual and kinesthetic representations of sound.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Bye Bye Baby Bunting (PK, Wk 24); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

• ME.B.E3.1

  With guidance, apply collaborative alterations to a familiar song or poem.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19); Baby Shark (PK, Wk 27); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1)