Our music program is developed around music history, reading and performing music. Music is based on the Nine National Standards:

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

Student Performances
Students perform in one concert each year:

• Kindergarten Christmas Play
• Grades 1-3 Christmas Concert
• Grades 4-7 Spring Concert

Lower Grades Curriculum
Beginning in Kindergarten, students are introduced to music through call and response and movement to music in establishing a beat. As students mature musically, they learn to read notes on the staff and are able to sing songs using notes on the lines and sol fege syllables. Sight reading is used to enhance their note reading and their inner hearing.

Music classes also include the creation of music beginning with quarter and eighth notes, then adding rests and additional notes. Students begin by counting using the Gordon method, then counting using numbers. Students create their own music which is played either with body percussion or instruments.

Upper Grades Curriculum
Students learn about the early creation of music, and the progression of music throughout different eras. Projects are completed through the year to encourage the use of music through motions.