Music and Visual Art Report Card Standards Grades 1-6
Music and Visual Art Report Card Standards Grades 1-6: Grading Explanation
The following lists the common content standards that all grade level students study in music and the visual art classes in Pembroke Elementary Schools. The grade that your child receives on the report card in content are based on these units of study.
| Grade | Visual Art Standards | Music Standards |
| Grade 1 | Primary & secondary colors | Singing on pitch (assessed grades 1-6) |
| Pinch Pots | Keeping a steady beat (assessed grades 1-6) | |
| Geometric & organic shapes | Movement | |
| Grade 2 | Warm & cool colors | Identifying instruments of the orchestra |
| Positive & negative space | Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) | |
| Coil pots | Reading simple music notation | |
| Grade 3 | Tints & shades | Learning to play recorders |
| Symmetry | Folk songs | |
| Instruments in ensemble | ||
| Grade 4 | Proportion & texture | Beethoven unit |
| Imaginative drawing | Conducting unit | |
| Memory drawing | International songs | |
| Grade 5 | Perspective & space | Musical theatre unit |
| Printmaking | American music | |
| Gesture sculpture | Civial and Revolutionary War songs and spirituals | |
| Grade 6 | African masks | Music Theory |
| Illustration | Composition | |
| Value | Musical celebrations around the world |
Instrumental Music
Grade 5 & 6: Students that elect to study band & string instruments are graded on the following content: Instrument Assembly & care, Embouchure/Bow technique, articulation, tone, and musical literacy (counting and executing rhythms and note reading).