2nd+Grade

__**Second Grade**__

 [|FPS Music Curriculum, Second Grade] media type="custom" key="4965629" width="302" height="277" In Second Grade, our activites are centered around expanding our singing voices, learning to play mallet instruments and choir chimes, learning to read music using solfege and the Treble Clef Staff, discovering musical form, and beginning to use our musical vocabulary.



**__Some of our activites:__** Singing root song harmonies Singing in rounds Playing harmonies with mallet instruments and choir chimes Listening to and discussing a variety of music Dancing traditional folk dances Improvising rhythmic and tonal patterns: "Finish the Song" and World Drumming Singing and playing the major and minor scales and their patterns Learning the letter names of the treble clef staff Relating the letter names of the staff to major and minor scale notes Playing the music of other cultures Learning American Patriotic Songs

  