Fourth grade students will:

• Read, write, create, derive and perform songs with sixteenth notes (tiri-tiri), syncopated and dotted notes, half notes (too), quarter notes (ta), eighth notes (ti-ti), and quarter rest rhythms.

• Read, write, create, derive and perform songs using the pentatonic and major scale.

• Sing age appropriate songs from memory.

• Play singing games from cultures around the world.

• Learn 4 chords on the ukulele and play several strumming patterns.

• Use a variety of percussion instruments such as drums, shakers and xylophones as well as continue our studies of the recorder. 

• Study various styles of music such as the blues and jazz.