During classroom activities teachers should focus on exposing children to new and unusual tonalities and meters using familiar classroom techniques such as singing, chanting, moving, and dancing. Children are ready to study the specific parts of familiar tonalities and meters because they have heard music in those tonalities and meters in the culture and they have learned to sing, chant, and move to music in those tonalities and meters. Learning Sequence Activities should be taught during the first ten minutes of every general music class period. Tonal and rhythm Learning Sequence Activities should be presented on alternate weeks. Even though children are learning in major and minor tonalities and duple and triple meters in Learning Sequence Activities, they should be experiencing music in other tonalities and meters in classroom activities.
Movement is an important part of music education.
Children should experience continuous fluid movement with flow and weight before they are taught to focus on beat movement and before they experience movement focused on space and time. A typical 30-45 minute general music class period should include 10 minutes of Learning Sequence Activities and a variety of other activities that feature singing, movement, creativity and improvisation, and play. Children should sing, chant, and move during every general music class period. There is no need to coordinate the tonal or rhythm content of Learning Sequence Activities and Classroom Activities within a single class period. It is the skill level itself that transfers, not the specific content.