Music+Level+2-3+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1** Students will demonstrate how to play and construct pitched/non-pitched instruments. ==
 * 1) Use mallets to strike bars of xylophone with correct hand position (All Orff Instruments)
 * 2) Hit a pitched colored tube on the floor or body to produce sound (Boomwhackers)
 * 3) Construct an instrument using materials provided
 * 4) Listen to songs and play along with instruments
 * 5) Perform on non-pitched classroom instruments (drums, triangle, rhythm sticks, cymbals, jingle bells, tambourine, woodblock, guiro, sand blocks, maracas)

== **EL 2** Students will recognize and create teacher echo responses and rhythms. ==
 * 1) Create musical phrases in the form of simple question and answer alone and in small groups
 * 2) Demonstrate teacher rhythms using body
 * 3) Create and demonstrate new rhythms and musical phrases on classroom instruments using simple traditional notation
 * 4) Read and recognize rhythmic and melodic patterns from memory

== **EL 3** Students will demonstrate pitch-matching songs and song phrases. ==
 * 1) Practice singing songs for Concerts/Musicals
 * 2) Respond and judge music through participation, performance, and the creative process
 * 3) Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior in a live performance
 * 4) Identify/Demonstrate Solfegge (Do-Re-Mi) singing and hand symbols
 * 5) Differentiate male and female voices in choral settings
 * 6) Echo someone singing a name or phrase pattern
 * 7) Sing a variety of songs from differing cultures

== **EL 4** Students will compose and create songs on pitched/ non-pitched instruments. == > == **EL 5** Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate music and identify which orchestra instruments belong in the four different families. ==
 * 1) Write and perform music in groups on pitched/non-pitched instruments using specific guidelines
 * 2) Learn and identify note rhythms/note lengths through rhythm flashcards
 * 3) Learn and identify note values through flashcards
 * 4) Listen to class performances and evaluate on a scale from 1-10
 * 5) Create and perform an original melody/pattern on an instrument using simple traditional notation
 * 6) Improvise a rhythmic and melodic pattern within a musical selection
 * 1) Listen to music performed by orchestras
 * 2) While listening to music perform a steady beat while contrasting rhythms are being played
 * 3) Learn and then identify the different orchestra instruments by listening to recordings (double bubble map)
 * 4) Visually identify instruments (double bubble map)
 * 5) Teacher plays and demonstrates a variety of musical instruments
 * 6) Listen/Identify songs written by many composers
 * 7) Listen to songs with different musical styles from various cultures
 * 8) Use simple terms to describe individual music preferences and how music speaks to everyone in different ways
 * 9) Demonstrate awareness of music through daily life and special events

== **EL 6** Students will identify musical symbols and musical terms. ==
 * 1) Play musical games reinforcing musical symbols and musical terms
 * 2) Identify notes and their values using flashcards
 * 3) Demonstrate use of basic musical terms