- Improvise melodic phrases vocally, instrumentally and/or kinesthetically based on familiar verbal, rhythmic, or melodic material
- Compose with known rhythms (quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests) and pentatonic scale
- Improvise musical answers to questions using four beat phrases
- Create additional verses to a song
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- Maintain rhythmic subdivisions while singing
- Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics and interpretation
- Sing from memory songs representing various genres, cultures and historical periods
- Sing songs with multiple verses
- Extend vocal range beyond pentatonic
- Sing ostinati
- Sing simple intervals do, re, mi, sol, la
- Perform instrumental ostinati and simple accompaniments while singing
- Demonstrate appropriate performance behavior
- Begin to develop head (light) voice
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- Recognize timbre of orchestral instruments that are same/different/similar
- Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
- Respond through purposeful movement to musical characteristic, theme, or form (AB, ABA)
- Compare/contrast music from more than one historical period
- Identify ways in which music and other disciplines are interrelated
- Describe and analyze musical selections and performance of self and others using musical terminology
- Aurally recognize do, re, mi, sol, la tones
- Respond to program music through prescribed activities
- Identify equal/unequal sounds to beat
- Identify beats in triple meter
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- Read do, re, mi, sol, la on staff
- Read standard notation for quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes and half rests
- Write music using standard or nonstandard notation
- Take simple rhythmic diction using known elements
- Identify symbols for time signature, G clef, and repeat sign
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