State Music Standards
- Reads, writes, and creates using rhythms including half and whole notes and rests
- Understands and uses crescendo/decrescendo
- Understands that sounds are produced by vibrations
- Identifies and uses the following musical notation: bar line, measure, time signature, fermata, repeat sign
- Identifies and performs simple musical forms (verse-refrain, round/canon)
- Understands how combinations of steps, leaps, and repeated notes make up a melody
- Sings and matches pitch
- Reads and performs simple rhythms
- Creats an improvisational response to a given pattern
- Recognizes that artworks have differing styles
- Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills and techniques through a creative process
- Applies previoucly learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process
- Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a responding process
- Recognizes that ideas and feelings can be expressed through the arts
- Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (i.e.; tell a story)
- Recognizes the aesthetic choices of others
- Demonstrates how an idea can be represented through various art disciplines
- Demonstrates concepts common to the arts and other content areas
- Identifies examples of arts in the community
- Describes specific artwork in the community
- Maintains focus and demontrates perseverance
Music in Second Grade
Classroom Activities
- Second Grade Sing Along