What we do:

• Learn to read whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter signature
• Place notes on a staff
• Compose music
• Listen for sharps, flats and minor modalities, sing rounds and partner songs, and develop musical improvisation skills

How we do it:

• Work extensively with mood, dynamics and tempo, and listening, singing and performance emphasize a multicultural experience
• Play instruments, sing, movement
• Listen, create
• Performance and reflection
• Orff Schulwerk program: rhymes, games, simple beats, wooden xylophones and metal glockenspiels