1st Grade at Coleman gets 40 minutes of music each week.

An overview of the concepts we focus on in 1st Grade Music:

• Steady beat
• Beat vs. rhythm
• Quarter note, beamed eighth notes, quarter rest 
• Sol mi (pitch)
• Up and down melodic direction
• AB sections of music (form)
• Four types of voices- sing, speak, call, whisper (timbre)
• Loud and quiet sounds (dynamics)
• Fast and slow sounds (tempo)