- Play simple melodies, harmonies, and rhythms on classroom instruments from notation
- Improvise accompaniment to simple rhythms
- Create text and music to accompany their text
- Improvise on familiar melodies using scat syllables
- Improvise and compose melodies using basic blues scale
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- Sing a repertoire of songs from many cultures
- Perform on classroom instruments
- Sing the blues scale
- Sing composed and original blues
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- Recognize, compare/contrast different styles and forms of musical compositions
- Develop a music vocabulary to discuss the elements of music
- Describe aural examples of music using music terminology
- Identify music skills and understand how they relate to a variety of music careers
- Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
- Understand how music is produced by the various instrument groups
- Demonstrate knowledge of music as it relates to school curricula, themes and projects
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the uses of music in many cultures and historical context
- Demonstrate importance of blues and its contribution to American music and culture
- Demonstrate knowledge of musical theater
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- Read standard notation for quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter notes and half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, whole rests, four sixteenth notes
- Identify notes of treble clef
- Understand note values and meter as it relates to mathematics
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