Tennessee Grade 1 Music Standards

The Grade 1 standards

• 1.GM.Cr1.A

  With limited guidance, explore and improvise musical ideas such as pitch, short rhythms, different vocal or instrumental timbres, musical textures, or movement.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); 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); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24)

• 1.GM.Cr1.B

  With limited guidance, using voices, body percussion, instruments, and movement, generate musical ideas (such as beat/rhythm patterns, melodies with limited pitches, movement, etc.) to accompany a song, poem, or story.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet & Blueberry (1, Wk 26); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

• 1.GM.Cr2.A

  With limited guidance, using short musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26)

• 1.GM.Cr2.B

  With limited guidance, using digital media or pictures to notate a short musical passage, organize personal musical ideas (such as limited pitches, sound/silence, high/low, long/short, etc.).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); It's Raining, It's Pouring (PK, Wk 23); Solfege Slide in C Major (PK, Wk 6)

• 1.GM.Cr3.A

  With limited guidance, using vocabulary such as voices/instruments, beginning, middle, sequence, and ending, discuss and apply feedback to refine personal musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

• 1.GM.Cr3.B

  With guidance, using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4); Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28)

• 1.GM.P1.A

  With limited guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

• 1.GM.P1.B

  With limited guidance, using voices, instruments, or movement, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)

• 1.GM.P1.C

  Demonstrate and describe music’s expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• 1.GM.P1.D

  When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Rhythm (2, Wk 22); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

• 1.GM.P2.A

  With limited guidance, apply feedback to refine performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• 1.GM.P2.B

  With limited guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music (such as dynamics, voice quality, and tempo).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Strumming Speed Exercise (5, Wk 24); C & D (K, Wk 31)

• 1.GM.P3.A

  With limited guidance, sing, alone and with others, with expression.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Singing (2, Wk 21); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

• 1.GM.P3.B

  With limited guidance, using body percussion or instruments, perform, alone and with others, with expression.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

• 1.GM.P3.C

  Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance 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); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

• 1.GM.P3.D

  Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

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

• 1.GM.R1.A

  With limited guidance, identify and explain how personalinterests and experience influence musical selection.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm (2, Wk 22); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11)

• 1.GM.R1.B

  With limited guidance, demonstrate music concepts (such as steady beat or singing voice) in various styles of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10)

• 1.GM.R1.B

  Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music; demonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (such as meter and timbre).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10)

• 1.GM.R2.A

  With limited guidance, identify expressive qualities or other characteristics of music (such as same/different sections within a simple form, types of voices, or individual instruments and identifying how sound is produced).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major & G Major Chords (1, Wk 20); Do, Re, Mi Review (1, Wk 7); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Major Chords (2, Wk 18)

• 1.GM.R3.A

  With limited guidance, apply personal preferences in the evaluation of music; discuss a musical performance using grade-appropriate vocabulary.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Parts of the Ukulele (5, Wk 3); Triad Part I (PK, Wk 29)

• 1.GM.Cn1.A

  Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as expressing personal preferences in music or how music is used in daily life).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2)

• 1.GM.Cn2.A

  Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as exploring the relationship between songs and historical events).

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Merrily We Roll Along (PK, Wk 18); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19)