Ramaz Music Curriculum Timeline 2024-2025 Sept
1st Grade
Review K concepts Students will perform action songs and practice in-tune singing. Through movement and listening, students will review steady beat, same/different, and fast/slow.
2nd Grade Review Grade 1 concepts
Review so and mi, la, ti ti, quarter rest, begin practicing so,mi la through song, listening, musical play, playing instruments, alone and with others.
Wild Symphony
Begin multi-month exploration of instruments utilizing Dan Brown’s picturebook, Wild Symphony with accompanying listening selections.
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
March
April
Beat/rhythm
So-mi
Siddur
Purim
Pesach
Utilizing iconic notation and audiation, students will practice and perform, alone and with others, the difference between beat and rhythm.
Students will be presented with their first two solfege syllables and learn to use the Curwen hand signs along with their singing.
First graders will learn repertoire connected with prayer and also learn new tunes for familiar prayers. Children will learn about singing posture, performance etiquette, and first and second endings, as they prepare for their celebration.
Learn holiday repertoire, review known unison songs that connect with Purim
Students culminate their learning through a performance assessment via their Chumash celebration
Decipher between high and low music through kinesthetic exploration, aural listening games, and iconic notation
Sing songs communally and learn to connect content of songs to the holiday
Thanksgiving/ Chanukah New and review repertoire will be sung alone and with others, to celebrate our holidays. Literature will be incorporated to connect to the new so and mi solfege patterns.
Chumash
Tu B’shevat
Second graders will learn repertoire connected with torah.
Sing songs communally and learn to connect the content of the song to the theme of the holiday
Veteran’s Day/Thanksgiving
New and review repertoire will be sung alone and with others, to celebrate our holidays. Literature and thematic rhymes will be utilized to practice melodic and rhythmic concepts.
Chumash
Children will learn about singing posture, performance etiquette and creative movement, as they prepare for their milestone event. Students culminate their learning through a performance assessment via their Chumash celebration
Half note
Sing, move to,, play songs that feature half note patterns
Tie and Half rest Student musicians will create, perform, and respond to repertoire featuring half notes, ties, and half rest.
High/Low
Purim Learn new holiday repertoire. Review unison songs that connect with Purim
So-mi-do
Read songs on the staff with do, read exercises with so-mi-do, and transcribe staff notation. Create melodic patterns via improvisation activities.
Quarter. Eighth notes Visually, aurally recognize ta and ti ti, play on non-pitched percussion instruments,and body percussion
Pesach Sing songs communally and learn to connect the content of the song to the theme of the holiday
4-beat and 2-beat Meter
Sing songs, play games in four beat meter, clap four beat ostinati while singing, and write patterns utilizing bar lines.
May
June
Yom Haatzmaut
So-mi-la
Sing and respond to songs that celebrate Israel.
Quarter rest
Quarter rest presented, practiced through literature, musical play, new vocal repertoire, listening examples.
Learn the new Curwen hand sign for la and incorporate it into solfege singing patterns, musical games, and singing new songs.
Yom Ha'atzmaut
6/8 Meter
Students will sing, play instruments, and respond to songs that celebrate Israel.
Second graders will play instruments, singing games, and practice ostinati in the new 6/8 meter.
So-do
Musicians will echo and improvise melodic motives with this