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CRUMPTON MUSIC

Grade 2 Curriculum

Unit 1: Community Music
Essential Questions:
  • How does music unite us?
  • How can we work together as a musical team?
  • Why is it important to work as a musical team?
Enduring Understandings:
  • Many communities throughout the world use music to form a tighter sense of community.
  • Music can be used as a way to communicate.
  • We can use music to bring our community closer together.
Objective:
  • Be able to demonstrate and communicate strategies to make music together
Skills associated with objective:
  • Sing songs that act as messages, ways of communication
  • Play in a drum circle (play repetitive rhythmic patterns on drums with steady beat)
  • Create community rules
  • Perform folk dances that require cooperation
  • Share folk songs from your own background
Picture
http://www.paosa.org/images/Orff%20instruments.jpg
Unit 2: Becoming a Composer
Essential Questions:
  • How do composers create their music?
  • How do I become a composer?
Enduring Understandings:
  • Composers are people who write down music.
  • I can write down music using rhythmic notation.
  • I can play other’s compositions by reading their notation.
Objective:
  • Read/write/create rhythms using rhythmic notation, and how to add pitch
Skills associated with Objective:
  • Be able to read and write quarter notes, eighth notes, half notes, and quarter rests
  • Listen to the Nutcracker and explore the following questions: What is a composer? Why do they do what they do?
  • Play barred instruments and explore the following questions: what is pitch? How can you tell if a bar will be high/low? 
  • Create and play our own rhythms
By the End of Grade 2:
  • Demonstrate and communicate strategies to make music together successfully
  • Be able to write/read/create rhythms using eighth, quarter, and half notes
  • Play ostinatos on barred instruments
  • Keep together a repeating groove using djembes
Last Updated: July 2022