Fourth Grade Music

Fourth Grade students sing folk songs from a variety of cultures, dance, play games and develop their ability to read, write, improvise and perform music notation using quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and syncopated rhythms.  They learn to read music on the staff and develop their reading skills by learning to play the recorder, a wind instrument. Students continue to develop the ability to sing in tune while accompanying themselves on classroom instruments like drums and xylophones learning multi-part drum ensembles. They perform in a winter concert held in December and on a Veterans’ Day concert in November.