Fourth Grade

Fourth Grade Music Curriculum

Fourth graders receive music instruction from a credentialed music specialist one day per week for 50 minutes. Students learn music concepts through singing games, dances, listening, reading, and writing activities. Instructional goals include:

sing age-appropriate songs from memory
match pitch and develop healthy singing voice/head voice
identify and demonstrate an understanding of pentatonic scales/intervals
identify and demonstrate an understanding of rhythms including ta, titi, rest, ta-a, tiki-tiki, ti-tiki, tiki-ti, syncopa, ta-a-a-a, half rest, tum-ti (quarter, eighth, half, sixteenth, whole, dotted quarter notes)
identify and demonstrate melodic notes d, r, m, s, l, low l, low s, high do
identify and demonstrate absolute pitch names of the treble staff
identify and demonstrate the do, la, so pentatonic scales
move to music while playing simple dances and singing games

Christa Gutheinz, Vocal/General Music Specialist
Email: [email protected]