4th Grade Curriculum Students will ... 1. Focus on extending singing range, controlling the voice (dynamics), and singing with expression 2. Apply knowledge about the elements of music: melody (tonality and meter), harmony, form, texture, timbre, and style in composition projects 3. Compose multiple sound compositions in a variety of musical forms 3a. Learn and utilize multiple notation strategies 4. Study the Recorder (Recorder Karate) 4a. Learn the responsibility of taking care of and learning to play an instrument 4b. Learn the connection between reading music and playing an instrument 4c. Earning a recorder belt to demonstrate their skill and mastery of various songs on the recorder 5. Listening lessons: Identifying learned knowledge (meter, tonality, style...etc.) and creatively expressing a critic Other Benefits! - Team work, partner play, physical preparation (small motor skills), divergent thinking skills and musical readiness