Music Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Faith-Based Second Grade

This page outlines the music skills second grade students develop, including rhythm, singing, listening, and basic music concepts. These skills help build musical understanding, confidence, and enjoyment of 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.
• Make a homemade instrument.
• Perform written rhythmic patterns: whole note/rest, quarter note/rest, half note/rest.
• Create a rhythmic composition.