In Kindergarten, our first task is to learn appropriate use of body and voice, in the Music Room, through singing songs, playing instruments and doing movement to music.
All songs focus on reinforcing concepts being taught in their regular classroom.
Grade 1 brings us to learning to keep the beat, and feeling, counting and reading rhythms. We have also been learning about the instruments of the orchestra. In Grade 2, we are learning some more advanced music concepts, vocabulary and simple score reading, while enjoying songs about friendship. One of these is in French and we have learned to sign the song while we sing. In Grade 3, we are learning about melody and melodic phrasing using the Kodaly Solfegge method of learning to sing, which incorporates singing syllables and hand signs into learning a song.