Second grade standards - Essay Example

STANDARDS Second grade content standards for music focus on four main groups of assessment: creative expression, history and culture, aesthetic value, and connections and relationships. Music skill acquisition and appreciation from a childhood perspective is the main goal of these standards. The structures shown in the standards show a wide range of basic applications, concentrating on passive as well as active learning. Listening and performing music, in terms of content topics, can be complementary in terms of communication, as they are in this content standard.

The students in second grade are children, so groupings are important for their social development as well as their mastery of music basics. It is also important for the teacher to keep the lesson fun and engaging as the students express answers as well as creative expressions through music. In activities like song-singing and learning about different instruments, composers, and styles, the students will also be working through repetition to build their basic listening and speaking skills.

Plan Creative expression—For this standard, I plan to focus on students’ memorizing and singing the song “Frere Jacques” in both French and English, and then have them write their own songs using the same melody. History and culture—For this standard, I plan to take the students on a field trip to a local philharmonic performance. Aesthetic value—In this standard, I will have students diagram and analyze a form of singing, such as the rondo. Connections and relationships—To find applications outside of the classroom, I plan on engaging students’ personal tastes in contemporary music, and using them to explore classic or canonical notions.

REFERENCE Second grade standards (2010). http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/mugrade2.asp