MUSIC AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
The music program throughout the elementary schools of South Orange and Maplewood is based upon music literacy – reading, writing, and improvising music.  To attain this goal, South Mountain School/Annex students sing folk songs in conjunction with the use of Orff instruments, as well as other percussion instruments.  They also participate in listening activities, movement activities, and music games.  Listed below are grade level goals.

KINDERGARTEN

• Discover and develop the “singing” voice
• Establish a sense of steady beat and moving in time to music
• Develop an understanding of personal space
• Aurally and visually recognize high and low notes
• Aurally and visually recognize long notes and short notes

1st GRADE

• Discover and develop the “singing” voice
• Establish a sense of steady beat and moving in time to music
• Develop an understanding of personal space
• Aurally and visually recognize the notes la, so, and mi
• Aurally and visually recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes

2nd GRADE

• Continue to develop the “singing” voice
• Continue to develop a sense of steady beat
• Discover and understand different components of music, such as tempo, dynamics, pitch, timbre and instrumentation
• Aurally and visually recognize the notes la, so, mi, re, and do
• Aurally recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes, and sixteenth notes

3rd GRADE

• Continue to develop the “singing” voice
• Continue to develop a sense of steady beat
• Discover and understand different components of music, such as tempo, texture, dynamics, pitch, timbre and instrumentation
• Aurally and visually recognize the notes la, so, mi, re, do, low la, and low so
• Aurally recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes, sixteenth notes, whole notes, and syncopated rhythms
• Recognize and play the notes B, A, G, C, and D on the recorder

4th GRADE

• Continue to develop the “singing” voice
• Continue to develop a sense of steady beat
• Continue to develop an understanding of different components of music, such as tempo, texture, dynamics, pitch, timbre and instrumentation
• Aurally and visually recognize the notes la, so, mi, re, do, low la, low so, fa and ti
• Aurally recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes, sixteenth notes, whole notes, syncopated rhythms, and dotted rhythms
• Recognize and play the notes B, A, G, C, D, E, F, and F# on the recorder

5th GRADE

• Continue to develop the “singing” voice
• Continue to develop a sense of steady beat
• Continue to develop an understanding of different components of music, such as tempo, texture, dynamics, pitch, timbre and instrumentation
• Aurally and visually recognize the notes la, so, mi, re, do, low la, low so, fa and ti
• Aurally recognize quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes, sixteenth notes, whole notes, syncopated rhythms, and dotted rhythms
• Develop an understanding of the musical styles of opera, the blues, jazz, rock and roll, and hip hop