Music Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular First Grade

Music activities are designed to improve the child’s motor skills, listening skills, self-discipline, vocabulary and language skills, social skills, and cultural understanding. Studying music nurtures creativity and builds self-confidence as the child learns to coordinate his movements in rhythm to music.

• Develop a beginning music vocabulary.
• Listen to and sing various types of music.
• Improve coordination and express creativity through motions that keep time with music.
• Develop an ability to understand a song’s message.
• Repeat rhythmic patterns using clapping or instruments.
• Compose lyrics to a song.
• Understand the meaning of the lyrics of a patriotic song.
• Learn a safety song.
• Listen to and sing a traditional Scottish folk song.
• Play a kazoo following a rhythm pattern.