Teaching Method For First Grade
Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards, and it has been adopted in many states across the United States. The music textbook for First Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook. The teacher receives a curriculum outline and approximately 150 questions for First Grade assessments.
The first installment in the My Music Journal, designed for first grade students, will begin to teach students of the basics of music theory and how they are applied to create music. Students will learn the basics of rhythm and beats, introductory sheet music, such as quarter notes, half notes, and rests, and how notes and beats are related to one another. This textbook will teach students the basics of pitch and tone, and will apply these lessons through the use of singing select songs. Visual and audio identification of several basic instruments, such as pianos and guitars, will be taught throughout the this first course.
Students will also be taught to identify how musical vocals differ from other methods of oral communication, such as talking and shouting, and will learn to aurally differentiate between major and minor tones. From this first installment, students will also begin to grasp the basic concepts of tempo and dynamics, learning when music gets faster or slower as well as softer or louder. This textbook will begin to introduce students to vocabulary as it relates to lyrics, for example, chorus, verse, introduction, and coda. The students will also gain a brief introduction into music history and style, learning about music from several different cultures and time periods. These lessons will be applied as students will perform along with select instrumental and vocal pieces.