Each music class from Kindergarten to fifth grade meets for music once a week for fifty minutes. Kindergarten and first grade music classes introduce music literacy though chants, songs, movements, dances, games and playing pitched and unhitched percussion instruments. Second graders build on this knowledge and are introduced to iconic notation of music. Third to fifth graders use recorders as part of their overall curriculum. New York Philharmonic Partnership ship has been a long-standing relationship between the classroom teachers, music teachers and the teaching artist. This program introduces classical music to our third to fifth graders and gives them an opportunity to visit Lincoln Center to watch the performance of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.