Kindergarten:    Steady beat, sound recognition, voice quality, movement, musical games, echo singing, singing 
                             alone and beginning rhythm.
 
First Grade:       Sound recognition, voice quality, echo clapping, rhythm vs. beat, movement, musical games, echo 
                            singing, singing alone, listening activities and solfege: so, mi, la.
 
Second Grade: Sound recognition, high/low, long/short; rhythm: ta, titi, rest, half note; solfege: so, mi, la, do re,
                            dictation, form, audience behavior, orchestra verses band, sing seasonal songs and movement.
 
Third Grade:     Rhythm, melody, dictation, recorder:  B, A, G C, orchestra vs. band, sing seasonal songs and
                            movement.
 
Fourth Grade:  Continuation of recorders, instrument families:  orchestra, staff reading, composing simple rhythmic
                           and melodic compositions, focus on musical elements:  form, tone color, phrasing; singing seasonal
                           songs.
 
Fifth Grade:      Rhythm: tika tika; singing in harmony of thirds and fourths, difference between Baroque, Classical,
                           Romantic Period; how sound is produced; major, pentatonic, hexatone scales; focusing on elements
                          of music  and listening; compose short rhythmic and melodic compositions.