Music Secular Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Fourth 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.
• Understand a time signature.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest, eighth note, dotted quarter note.
• Create a rhythmic composition.
• Sing a song about bones and muscles.
• Sing “Star-Spangled Banner.”
• Sing one of the most-performed songs in America.
• Listen to reveille and taps.
• Learn about a famous composer.
• Learn about a famous musician.