The Grade 1 "Teacher Edition" portion of the Music Expressions (TM) curriculum provides a wealth of activities and concepts at your fingertips!   The lessons address the need to consider the multicultural, cross-curricular and diverse learning needs of young students.  Concepts taught over the course of the year include:  steady beat; melodic direction; singing and signing pitch syllables; melodic and rhythmic patterns; composing; word rhythms and discerning same and different patterns.  Fun musical examples and vivid artwork in the correlated Grade 1 "Big Book" and "Lesson CD Pack" bring the music to life!  The Curriculum Package contains all four volumes of the "Teacher Edition" books for this level, the "Piano Accompaniment" book, the "Teacher Songbook," the "Teacher Support Pack," all at a value-minded price. Or, you can purchase the each volume of the Teacher Edition for this grade 1 separately.