Washington DC Elementary Music Standards

Respond through movement to music of various tempos, meters, dynamics, modes, genres, and styles.

Use own vocabulary to describe voices, instruments, and music of various genres, styles, and periods from diverse cultures.

Identify various sound sources (e.g., voices: singing, speaking, whisperings, shouting; body: clapping, tapping; environment: animal sounds, wind, rain, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Use a variety of instruments and other sound sources to create musical sounds.

Move or use body percussion to demonstrate awareness of beat and tempo.

Use voices expressively to speak, chant, and sing (imitate sounds of animals and sounds in the home and neighborhood).

Sing a variety of simple songs in various keys, meters, and genres, alone and with a group, becoming increasingly accurate rhythm and pitch.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7)

Improvise and arrange songs to accompany play activities.

Improvise and arrange instrumental accompaniments to songs, recorded selections, stories, and poems.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 34); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

Use classroom instruments to imitate and make sounds.

Make up physical movements to illustrate the “high & low,” “up & down,” and “long & short”.

Recognize whole, half, and quarter notes.

Use appropriate movements to respond to music from various historical periods and cultures.

Sing and play simple singing games from various cultures.

Identify different kinds of music that can be heard in daily life.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4)

Respond to music with movement: employ large body movement; demonstrate various locomotor and non-locomotor movements; use movement to enhance music, stories, and poems; and use the to illustrate moods and contrasts in music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Demonstrate awareness of the elements of music and changes in their use (e.g., steady beat, high and low sounds, same/different phrases).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25)

Recognize when music changes from one section to a contrasting section.

Identify classroom instruments sight and sound.

Distinguish between tone colors: voices versus instruments; men's versus women's versus children's voices.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23)

Recognize and demonstrate elements of music: fast/slow, high/low, long/short, loud/soft.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Use body percussion and classroom instruments to accompany songs and chants while demonstrating a steady beat.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36)

Perform rhythmic patterns that include long and short sounds and silences.

Match movement to rhythm patterns.

Sing simple songs from memory individually and in groups.

Demonstrate the difference between singing voice and a speaking voice.

Imitate two pitch (sol-mi) patterns.

Demonstrate steady beat singing.

Use the singing voice to echo short melodic patterns.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Imitate sounds made with the voice.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Use the voice (singing and speaking) to create accompaniments for songs, recorded selections, stories, and poems.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34)

Create accompaniments to stories using the voice or a variety of instruments.

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)

Recognize symbolic representations patterns for high/low, fast/slow, long/short, and soft/loud sounds.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

Echo-clap/tap short steady patterns while following notation.

Recognize and produce through clapping whole, half, quarter and eighth notes.

Discuss and interpret characteristics of music heard in the home and community.

Identify family members and friends who sing or play instruments.

Sing songs and play singing games from various cultures.

Participate in activities that explore relationships between music and other arts through drawing, drama, movement, dance, and storytelling.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4)

Participate in music activities that involve sharing, taking turns, and other ways of demonstrating good citizenship.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: What note is it? (K, Wk 29); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

Respond to music with movement: perform line and circle dances; perform dances and games from various cultures; dramatize songs, stories, and poems; and perform choreographed movements.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Major Chords (2, Wk 18); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

Identify, talks about, sing, or music written for specific purposes (e.g., work song, lullaby).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10)

Describe how ideas or moods communicated through music.

Recognize simple musical forms such as phrase, AB, and echo.

Identify pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments by sight and sound.

Distinguish between extreme contrasts of sound and between melodic rhythm and steady beat.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Recognize sudden dynamic and tempo changes in music.

Identify high pitches and low pitches and demonstrate different pitches vocally, instrumentally, and with movement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14)

Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Perform rhythm patterns that include long and short sounds and repeated patterns.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Relate rhythm patterns to notation.

Demonstrate melodic rhythm (ostinato, melodic patterns).

Sing from memory a variety of simple songs, echoes, and chants, individually and in groups, with accuracy.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)

Develop a repertoire of songs and without accompaniment.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3)

Demonstrate use of pitch (high/low, upward/downward, melody skips, repeats, melodic patterns, ostinatos) and timbre of the voice.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi Review (1, Wk 5); Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 9)

Demonstrate melodic rhythm when singing.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19)

Imitate and create tonal patterns ascend, descend, and repeat.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

Create melodies to familiar nursery rhymes or chants.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34)

Create tonal patterns that ascend, descend, and repeat. compose music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10); Fa, Sol, La (1, Wk 13)

Interpret rhythmic and tonal patterns and tempo and dynamic symbols.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 15); Do Mi Sol (K, Wk 21)

Read (using rhythmic solfege) simple sets of rhythms using quarter and eighth note patterns.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Grapefruit Review (1, Wk 25); Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2)

Imitate use of solfege syllables (e.g., do, re, mi...) to read short tonal patterns that move up, down, or repeat.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hi High C (K, Wk 11); 1 8 They're Great (K, Wk 13)

Describe the purpose of notes, staff, and clef signs.

Listen to/sing music and folk songs various countries/regions.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 18)

Identify roles of musicians in various settings and the uses of specific music in daily or special events.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Bells (K, Wk 4); Hello C (K, Wk 5)

Name and characterize the use specific instruments by people of a particular culture (e.g., conga drums and shakers - African & Latino, castanets- Spanish, tom drums and bell clusters- Native American).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10)

Describe relationships between arts and other arts through drawing, drama, dance, movement, dance, and storytelling.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Use music, together with dance, theatre, and the visual arts, for storytelling.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

Count note values/patterns model properties of numbers.

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

Respond to music with movement: perform traditional folk dances (choreographed and non-choreographed), and interpretive movement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Create movements to music reflect the pitch, tempo, and dynamics in music.

Develop an opinion, contribute, take turns to discuss music in terms of likes and dislikes.

Recognize musical forms such as and unlike melodic phrases; music in two- part (AB) form; and the beginning and ending of phrases.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

Identify selected orchestral and instruments by sight and sound.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi (K, Wk 9); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28)

Distinguish between accompanied unaccompanied vocal music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Recorder King/Queen 4 - Dynamics (4, Wk 25)

Recognize sudden and gradual changes in music, especially the dynamics and tempo.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); C Major Scale (PK, Wk 32)

Use music terminology to identify describe melody patterns that move upward, downward, and remain the same, and demonstrate different patterns vocally, instrumentally, and with movement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

Perform rhythmic ostinatos single-chord accompaniments on classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1)

Perform and match notated rhythm patterns.

Play instruments to demonstrate awareness of beat, tempo, dynamics, and melodic direction.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Songs - What song is it? (2, Wk 27); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29)

Sing a variety of songs in various keys, meters, and genres, alone and with a group, with accuracy in rhythm and pitch, from memory.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Major Chords (2, Wk 16); Three Cs Part I (5, Wk 11)

Develop a repertoire of songs, including those with and without accompaniment, with and without harmony, and songs with ostinatos and meter in 2 and 3.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

Match single pitches and groups pitches played on the piano, individually, and in groups.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2)

Read lyrics containing more than verse and including words divided into syllables.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2)

Sing in a two-part ensemble.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17)

Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic accompaniments, using voice, body percussion, or classroom instruments.

Improvise accompaniments ostinatos (melodic, rhythmic) to enhance songs, stories, and poems (e.g., match sounds with visuals/images to create improvisations inspired by an event, poem or story).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18)

Compose and arrange simple rhythmic and melodic accompaniments using voice, body percussion, or classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Notate rhythm patterns using traditional notation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Music Class (3, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Read (using rhythmic solfege) sets of simple rhythms that use the quarter rest with quarter, half, and eighth note patterns.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi Review (1, Wk 5); Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10)

Read (sing) easy melodic patterns using letters (e.g., A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and also using solfege syllables (e.g., do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Introduction to Music Class (3, Wk 1)

Interpret holiday songs.

Identify the uses of music in various cultures and time periods.

Listen to a variety of folk music (e.g., American, African, Latin, Asian), identify the artists, and describe their similarities and differences in terms of rhythm, mood, tom instruments and tone color.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Recognize and talk about music celebrations of the cultures represented in the school population.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

Interpret song lyrics/describe sounds of classroom instruments.

Interpret patterns and model properties of numbers.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior and contribute to a post-concert discussion of performance events, likes and dislikes.

Use music vocabulary (e.g. tempo - speed, dynamics - loud/soft, pitch - high/low, rhythm - beat, and mood - feeling) to describe music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Respond through physical movement to selected prominent music characteristics to specific music events while listening to music (e.g., changes in pitch direction, and dynamics).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

Identify simple musical forms, emphasizing verse/refrain, AB and ABA forms.

Identify ascending/descending melody in selected pieces of music.

Identify the four orchestral families (woodwind, string, brass, percussion) by and sound and the way in which sound is produced on various instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Semitones (3, Wk 32); Chord Theory Part I (5, Wk 30)

Perform (by printed notation note) major and minor scales.

Perform on instruments using a wide range of tempos and dynamics.

Perform in a two-part music ensemble.

Identify and perform sets of beats that are grouped in twos and threes using descriptive terminology to identify which beats are strong and which beats are weak.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fourths Part I (3, Wk 14); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6)

Maintain instruments, voice, performance and practice areas carefully responsibly.

Sing from memory a variety seasonal, game, folk, and patriotic songs or without accompaniment.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

Develop a repertoire of familiar from diverse cultures, including melodies, rounds/canons, partner songs, and songs with ostinatos and meters in 2, 3, and 4.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8)

Sing in tune with clear tone quality, dynamics, phrasing, pitch, diction, and interpretation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Sing melodies within the range octave.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7)

Compose, arrange, and improvise accompaniments and ostinato (melodic, rhythmic) for songs and chants.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holding your Ukulele (5, Wk 5)

Improvise lyrics to familiar melodies and new verses to songs.

Compose music to enhance stories poems.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4)

Read (using rhythmic solfege) half, quarter, eighth, dotted half, whole notes, rests.

Read (sing) short melodic patterns move up and down and repeat using syllables (e.g., do, re, mi, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16)

Identify symbols (icons/terms) (f - forte) and soft (p - piano).

Sing songs and play singing games from various cultures.

Identify and describe roles (past present) of musicians in and/or from Washington, D.C.

Recognize the influence of various cultures on music Washington, D.C.

Explore meaning and relationships terms that express "melody" among the (e.g., melody, theme, subject, line, main idea, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)

Develop and use symbolic representations of number patterns.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C (PK, Wk 1)

Devise specific criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.

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

State personal preferences in music and explain reasons for the selections.

Identify simple music forms forms. listening to a given example such AABA, AABB, rondo, and round.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29)

Identify phrases and sections music that are the same, similar, or different. sight

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Identify the sounds of a variety instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and other instruments from various cultures, as well as male and female adult voices.

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

Use music terminology to describe how pitch levels may move upward, downward, or stay the same and - demonstrate the melodic shape (contour) a musical phrase.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17)

Perform easy rhythmic, melodic, chordal patterns on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8)

Perform on pitch, in rhythm, appropriate dynamics and a steady tempo.

Play in instrumental groups in order to learn how to respond to the directions conductor.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 33); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 35)

Echo sort rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Maintain instruments, voice, performance and practice areas carefully responsibly.

Sing from memory a varied repertoire with of songs from diverse cultures, including countermelodies, rounds/canons, partner songs, descants, and songs with ostinatos, songs alone and with others.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Dragon 3 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 30); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9)

Sing independently with good pitch, diction, and posture, and maintain a steady tempo.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

Distinguish between the "head voice" (high register, light tone color) and the voice" (low register, heavy tone color).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7)

Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments (meter in 2 and dotted rhythm, syncopation).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holding your Ukulele (5, Wk 5)

Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including the voice, sounds available in the and classroom (instruments), body sounds, and sounds produced by electronic means.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19)

Compose and arrange short songs instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional sounds, sounds available in the classroom, body sounds, sounds produced by electronic means.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11)

Read (using rhythmic solfege) and notate whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted notes in duple and triple meter signatures.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20)

Read (sing) simple pitch notation the treble clef in major keys, using a moveable “Do” solfege system of syllables.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation and interpret them correctly when performing.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10)

Recognize major and minor intervals (e.g., major and minor seconds, thirds).

Explain orally or in writing relationship between music and events in early American history.

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

Identify various uses of music daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 3)

Explain how experiences, surroundings, stories, and history are expressed through music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2)

Identify similarities and differences arts the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1)

Identify similar themes in stories, songs, and art forms (e.g., patterns, texture).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi (K, Wk 9); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19)

Devise and apply specific criteria evaluating performances and compositions.

Identify and analyze difference tempo and dynamics in contrasting music selections.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23)

Define the special properties of musical sounds (pitch, duration, volume and timbre).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23)

Analyze how musical sounds are in various genres and culture.

Identify vocal and instrumental ensembles from a variety of genres and cultures (e.g., classical, jazz, blues, gamelan, mariachi, cambia, salsa, mambo, reggae).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10)

Demonstrate perceptual skills listening to and comparing and contrasting music of various styles and cultures.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chord Theory Part III (5, Wk 32); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20)

Perform melodies I accompaniments from a varied repertoire of music from diverse cultures, including rounds, descants, ostinatos, and two-part harmony, by oneself and with others, on classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Sixths Part II (3, Wk 25)

Use appropriate embouchure breath control, bowing or drumstick grip to produce tones on instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2)

Perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Types of Ukuleles (5, Wk 2); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

Accompany singing with rhythm and/or melody instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi (K, Wk 9); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28)

Maintain instruments, voice, performance and practice areas carefully and responsibly.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Bells (K, Wk 4); Hello C (K, Wk 5)

Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing diverse genres, styles and cultures, including rounds/canons, descants, and songs with ostinatos and songs in two-part harmony, alone and with others.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20)

Sing with accurate pitch, rhythm, diction, and posture, maintaining a steady tempo.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Speed Exercise (5, Wk 24); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22)

Sing in groups, blending vocal "chest timbres, dynamic levels, and respond to the cues of the conductor.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7); Recorder Dragon 2 - C to G Five Note Scale (4, Wk 29)

Improvise, compose, and arrange 3, simple melodies on a given scale (e.g., pentatonic).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holding your Ukulele (5, Wk 5)

Improvise, compose, and arrange basic rhythmic, melodic and harmonic patterns on classroom instruments and available technology.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4)

Improvise, compose, and arrange and music to accompany readings and dramatizations.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

Improvise and compose short songs and/or instrumental pieces in duple and triple meter using the following musical devises: imitation and repetition.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20)

Read (using rhythmic solfege) rhythmic notation, including sixteenth notes, dotted notes, and syncopation (e.g., eighth/quarter/eighth note and eighth- rest/quarter/eighth note).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11)

Read (sing) melodic notation in treble clef in major keys and minor keys, using solfege.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Four Finger Fretting Exercise (5, Wk 26)

Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in song.

Recognize and construct basic chords and chord patterns (e.g., I, V, and V7).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds and Thirds Review (3, Wk 13); Seconds, Thirds and Fourths Review (3, Wk 16)

Describe in writing the roles musicians in each of the four periods of music history (e.g., Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary) and include a composer and composition representative of each their period.

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

Listen to and identify, by genre style, examples of music from various historical periods and world cultures.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10)

Identify the use of similar elements music and other art forms (e.g., form, pattern, rhythm).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Produce sound fundamentals classroom instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C (PK, Wk 1)