Music Curriculum Skills List | Secular Homeschool

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.
• Demonstrate rhythms through body movement.
• Sing the alphabet.
• Sing a song about a given topic: pets, balloons, vehicles, worms, flowers, bees, apples.
  
• Make an instrument to play in rhythm with a song.
• Clap a rhythm pattern.
• Participate in a musical color walk.