In NY we have to teach music each year until middle school and then they need a few credits in it then. But our curriculum has the art and music electives so I just buy those. The music elective teaches the children the different notes and how to read a staff. It works for the state and the school district so it works for us, lol! Today I managed to get all 5 week's worth of lesson plans filled out and half of the sheets for those weeks pulled and filed appropriately by day. Tonight I'll finish pulling the last 2 weeks' worth of papers and file those...when I'm not babysitting a 10 month old crawler, lol!