Newton Music Curriculum Frameworks
- Students will learn to use their voices, bodies and musical instruments, with proper technique, to creatively express an understanding of music as well as its cultural and historical significance.
- Students will learn to be effective ensemble members through teamwork, individual responsibility and cooperation.
- Students will gain confidence through rehearsal and performance in a variety of settings.
- Students will strengthen their ability to focus on a specific task, while maintaining awareness of auditory and visual cues.
- Students will gain a deeper understanding of other cultures, and prepare to create culture of the present and future.
- Through music, students will communicate ideas to develop creativity and imagination.
Curriculum Content for Grades K-2
1) Singing
6) Multicultural Music:
Kye Kye Kule
Vengan a ver mi granja
La Cucaracha
Los Pollitos
Bate Chocolate
Au Clair de la lune
Hine Ma Tov
Shalom Chaverim
Hava Nagila, Tongo
Gong Si Ni Ya
Arirang
Epo i tai tai.
When the Saints go Marching In
Charlie Over the Ocean
Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow
A Sailor Went to Sea
Old King Glory on the Mountain
Rocky Mountain High
Jim Along Josie
A-Tisket A-Tasket
Bluebird Through My Window
Hop Old Squirrel
Bow Wow Wow
John The Rabbit
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Over in the Meadow
All Round the Brickyard
The Horse Stood Around
This Land is Your Land
America the Beautiful
America (My Country Tis of Thee)
Proud to Be an American
This is My Country
Yankee Doodle
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
7) Creative Expression:
As an audience member:
- Pitch matching
- Healthy vocal production
- Solo and ensemble singing
- Rote repetition
- Singing with appropriate expression
- Keeping a steady beat
- Keeping a steady tempo
- Performing patterns on pitched and unpitched percussion instruments
- Playing instruments with proper technique
- posture
- hand position
- Assign age-appropriate musical notation to rhythmic and melodic sounds
- By the end of grade 2, students should be able to read and perform from standard musical notation:
- Whole note, half notes, quarter note, double eighth notes, quadruple sixteenth notes, quarter rest.
- An ascending melody and a descending melody
- Tonal patterns that step and skip
- Measures, bar lines, double bar lines, repeat signs, note values in bar lines.
- Auditory Discrimination (high-low, fast-slow, loud-quiet, same-different)
- Basic instrument and vocal timbre (piano vs. orchestra, families of the orchestra, male vs. female voice, adult vs. child voice)
- Identifying melodic and rhythm patterns through listening
- Keeping voices and bodies quiet so that music can be heard
- Familiarity with pieces of music that could include: Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Tubby the Tuba, Hansel and Gretl.
- Spatial Awareness
- Folk dances
- Play parties/game songs
- Purposeful Movement
- choreography
- imitation
- responding to musical elements through appropriate movement
- creating formations with a group of fellow students (circle, rows, two-line sets)
- Creative Movement
- expressive response to music
- improvised movement
6) Multicultural Music:
- Students will develop familiarity with songs in languages other than English, possibly including:
Kye Kye Kule
Vengan a ver mi granja
La Cucaracha
Los Pollitos
Bate Chocolate
Au Clair de la lune
Hine Ma Tov
Shalom Chaverim
Hava Nagila, Tongo
Gong Si Ni Ya
Arirang
Epo i tai tai.
- Students will develop familiarity with American folk songs, possibly including:
When the Saints go Marching In
Charlie Over the Ocean
Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow
A Sailor Went to Sea
Old King Glory on the Mountain
Rocky Mountain High
Jim Along Josie
A-Tisket A-Tasket
Bluebird Through My Window
Hop Old Squirrel
Bow Wow Wow
John The Rabbit
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Over in the Meadow
All Round the Brickyard
The Horse Stood Around
- American patriotic songs, possibly including
This Land is Your Land
America the Beautiful
America (My Country Tis of Thee)
Proud to Be an American
This is My Country
Yankee Doodle
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
7) Creative Expression:
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Dance
As an audience member:
- Student will listen attentively
- Student will display respectful audience behavior
- Student will describe emotional experience of music
- Student will describe the elements of music using age-appropriate musical terminology
- Student will display appropriate presentation
- Student will assess the performance of self and others using age-appropriate musical terminology
- Student will let mistakes be learning experiences