Music Programs

Kindergarten students enjoy music with their classroom teacher, striving to match tones, keep steady beats, and understand musical contrasts.

Students in grades one through six receive one forty-minute class of music each week.  Grade One is especially exciting because music reading and writing begins through simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.  Second graders add more complex rhythms and melodies and begin reading from text books.  The highlight of Third Grade is the introduction of the treble clef and its note names.

The major goals of Fourth Grade are the mathematical naming of note values and a thorough introduction of the instruments of the orchestra.  Grade Five increases familiarity with the seven-step scale, studies our heritage of American folk music, and begins studying classical forms and the important European composers.  In Sixth Grade there is a great deal of concentration on singing through study of the various voice parts, researching musical dramas, and culminating in our year-end performance.

In the fourth grade, interested students may begin violin, viola, and cello.  In fifth grade, the brass, woodwind, and percussion lessons are begun.