Music Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular Second Grade

Music activities are designed to encourage the creative abilities of the child and to promote the development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.

• 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.