What is the Fun Music Company Grade One Music Curriculum?
On this page is a complete Grade 1 Music Curriculum.
It is specifically designed to meet curriculum requirements, while at the same time making lessons engaging and fun for children.
It does this by structuring activities around the four areas commonly found in every music curriculum in the world: SKILLS, SING & PLAY, COMPOSE and CONNECT.
Benefits of the Fun Music Company Grade 1 Music Curriculum
A step by step program of 40 lessons for grade one music. Open the program, click the lesson you’re up to … and teach!
It doesn’t matter how much experience you have teaching music. Even if you can’t play an instrument or sing a note, you could still successfully teach music to your grade one students with this program.
Easy for any grade one classroom! All you need is some sort of a display screen in your classroom.
A short overview and preview of each of the units in this grade:
Students will begin working with basic skills in music, such as rhythm and pitch.
They do this through easy and fun games such as echo clapping, echo singing, note recognition and listening games.
The students will be gently introduced to the elements of music through these experiences.
Imitation Singing
Students will warm up and grow in their vocal skills by singing back easy phrases.
Experienced teachers who would like to sing can follow the sheet music, and expand these activities for the students.
However, teachers do not need to be able to sing, as there are fully recorded tracks which can be used.
Imitation Rhythm
Students will participate in a variety of imitation rhythm activities, where they will listen and imitate the rhythm they have just heard.
If the teacher is feeling confident and prepared with this activity, then they can begin with our suggestions and expand the activity. If not, they can use the recorded track.
Listening Games
One of the most important skills we can build in students is the skill of listening.
We begin this in grade one through the use of some listening games, where students will listen to a short piece of music, and then discuss and think about what the title may be, before it is revealed to them.
Here at the Fun Music Company, we believe that every lesson should include opportunities for students to be involved in singing and playing music.
This the foundation that this program is built on. Every lesson contains a SING & PLAY song where children will build on their skills. They work on a song for five weeks and sing, play untuned instruments and tuned instruments. They can then put all the parts together into an ensemble.
Click to see a sample:
Singing
We always begin with singing.
At grade one we know that students are still developing the skills of reading and writing, so the songs are very simple, with repetitive phrases they can memorize.
We always have the words and the sheet music present on the screen, so that children are learning through exposure.
In the COMPOSE unit of this grade children will work on developing their understanding of the elements of music and how to manipulate them to create music.
We begin with creating soundscapes using technology and then use instruments to create soundscapes and record them using simple invented notation styles.
In the CONNECT unit of this grade students will listen to a wide variety of music styles and learn about instruments of the orchestra, world music styles and popular music through the years.
Students will complete a simple worksheet in each lesson with a few questions and a drawing or colouring task.
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You can purchase a membership to individual grades, however did you know that you can get access to the complete Fun Music Company Curriculum program in an annual or monthly membership for less than $20 per week?