North Carolina Grade 1 Music Standards

The Grade 1 standards

Connect 5

• 1.CN.1.1

  Explain how music can reflect culture, values, and ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10)

• 1.CN.1.2

  Identify cross-curricular connections between music and other arts disciplines.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Hi High C (K, Wk 11)

• 1.CN.1.3

  Describe how music exists in local community traditions, celebrations, entertainment, or other uses.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 15); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19); Grapefruit Review (1, Wk 25); Beet & Blueberry (1, Wk 26)

• 1.CN.2.1

  Identify the various roles of individuals that contribute to the support and consumption of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21); Fretting Technique (5, Wk 25); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)

• 1.CN.2.2

  Describe how innovations and technology are used to create and present music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22)

Create 4

• 1.CR.1.1

  Improvise 4-8 beat rhythmic patterns and 3-pitch melodic patterns.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22)

• 1.CR.1.2

  Notate 4-8 beats of original rhythmic ideas using iconic or standard notation that incorporate grade-level appropriate rhythms.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)

• 1.CR.2.1

  Accompany readings, stories, or dramatizations with corresponding traditional and non-traditional sound sources.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: F Major Chord (2, Wk 15); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Hello Bells (K, Wk 4); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8)

• 1.CR.2.2

  Explain how and when to give credit to others when creating work that borrows from other musicians. PRESENT (PR)—Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Singing (2, Wk 21)

Present 6

• 1.PR.1.1

  Improve musical skills by incorporating feedback from instructors and peers.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C & G (K, Wk 33); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

• 1.PR.1.2

  Read iconic or standard notation to sing or play music with at least three pitches and rhythms with quarter rests in 2/4 and 4/4 meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19); Beet & Blueberry (1, Wk 26); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)

• 1.PR.1.3

  Sing or play in unison with simple accompaniments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Skips (2, Wk 8); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Types of Ukuleles (5, Wk 2)

• 1.PR.1.4

  Demonstrate opposites in tempos, form, texture, articulations, and dynamics.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

• 1.PR.2.1

  Identify the production elements needed to develop formal and informal performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 1 - Let Us Play G A B (4, Wk 7); Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Recorder King/Queen 1 - Let Us Play Low C & D (4, Wk 23); Four Finger Fretting Exercise (5, Wk 26)

• 1.PR.2.2

  Contrast audience and performer etiquette.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36)

Respond 5

• 1.RE.1.1

  Identify opposites in tempos, form, texture, articulations, and dynamics in aural or written musical works.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

• 1.RE.1.2

  Explain how musical works are used to communicate meaning.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 15); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

• 1.RE.1.3

  Identify a variety of instruments and voices by sound, including available classroom instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Major Chords (2, Wk 18); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Hello Bells (K, Wk 4); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

• 1.RE.2.1

  Describe personal preferences for music.

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

• 1.RE.2.2

  Provide positive feedback and areas for improvement for others.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36); Chord Theory Part II (5, Wk 31); Harmonizing Part II (3, Wk 30)