SUNSHINE LEVEL 1 -- PROGRAM GOALS:

• Create a positive happy habit of learning music.
• Develop the child’s listening skills.
• Experience independence in learning and interaction with other children.
• Master the music alphabet from A to G inclusive.
• Play the C major scale and the A natural minor scale on the keyboard.
• Recognize and reproduce on the keyboard high, middle and low sounds.
• Play musical patterns on the keyboard by ear.
• Read line and space notes.
• "Echo sing" patterns using solfege (do, re, mi).
• Use 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 time signatures.
• Employ whole, half, quarter and eighth notes in singing, clapping, dictation and reading.
• Reinforce left and right modality and fine motor control in the individual fingers.
• Compose at least four measures of their own music.
• Learn levels of sound which can be incorporated into their music, using dynamics.
• Play in a recital, either solo or with the class.

• Play in the keys of C+, G+ and a-, including recognizing related key signatures.
• Accompany using primary chords for the key of C+.
• Play with hands separately and together, including proper finger technique and strengthening exercises.
• Play simple pieces by ear.
• Transpose simple pieces from the key of C+ into G+ and a-.
• Read staff notation from bass clef low B through treble clef high C.
• Understand time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8, including strong and weak beat emphasis.
• Use ti-ti, ta, triplet, half note, half note dot, whole notes and rests in singing, playing and rhythm dictation.
• Expand musical terminology including staccato, legato, sharp, fermata, bar line, double bar line and accidental.
• Sing songs in solfege with hand signs, including do, re, mi, so and la.
• Expand composition skills and experimentation.
• Introduce composers and music history.
• Recognize major and minor tonality, including an introductory understanding of the relationship between major and minor keys.
• Perform in two recitals, solo and ensemble.