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Lammersville Unified School District's dedication to music offers classroom based instruction at the primary grades TK-4th and ensemble based instruction the middle grades of 5th through 8th that prepare students for entrance into intermediate and advanced levels of music instruction as they matriculate to the high school. Students have a number of different opportunities including multiple bands, choirs, and orchestras to participate in. In addition advanced music students can extend their music education in our Advanced Placement Music Theory course. We welcome you to explore the options on in the menu to the right to learn more about our music program.
Music instruction at the primary grades is comprehensive and sequential. The district uses the Quaver Music Curriculum as its adopted music curriculum for students TK-3rd grade. Quaver's curriculum is aligned to the California State Arts Education Standards. The curriculum is presented in a digital format and has engaging components for teachers and students alike. The curriculum's scope and sequence breaks down musical instruction into 13 musical categories and 36 musical concepts to address the standards. Each of these concepts are revisited at each grade level in increasing levels of rigor. Students in grades TK-3 receive 30 minutes of music instruction per week.
In the 4th grade, students have an opporutnity to extend their musical learning to a 50 minute period of time with a trimester wheel of musical education. Throughout the year, students will learn to play a new musical instrument each trimester, introducing them to recorders, ukuleles, and percussion. Throughout the year, 4th grade students will also engage in a year-long study of sight-singing using solfege.
Primary level instruction leads to middle grade instruction that focuses on incorporation of musical knowledge into participation in performance ensembles. Students in the 5th grade can choose to learn a musical instrument, or participate in a choral ensemble. Students at this grade level are required to participate in an ensemble, and teachers travel together as a group to provide this instruction for 50 minutes each week at each school site district-wide.
7th through 8th grade students can choose to continue their music education by choosing to participate in an elective band, orchestra or choir elective that continues their participation in music throughout their middle school experience.
Finally, Students at the high school level have the opportunity to choose from a number of musical ensembles in band, orchestra, and vocal domaions, as well as beginning guitar, and AP Music Theory. See below for more details about curriculum at each grade level.