Music Secular Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Fifth 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.

• Continue to develop a basic music vocabulary.
• Demonstrate dynamics and tempo.
• Listen to and sing various types of music: patriotic, folk, seasonal, spirituals.
• Continue to 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.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note/rest.
• Understand the meaning of a time signature in music.
• Clap a rhythm pattern using a given time signature.
• Learn the value of notes and rests.
• Divide musical beats into measures.
• Use musical notes to write the rhythm of a song.
• Write a nursery rhyme and set it to a tune.
• Sing a song about bones and muscles.
• Create a rhythmic composition.