Kindergarten

1.0: PERCEIVING AND RESPONDING: AESTHETIC EDUCATION - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.

1:  Develop awareness of the characteristic of musical sounds and the diversity of sounds in the environment

a.  Experiment with a wide range of classroom instruments such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, tambourines, and hand drums

b. Identify repeated patterns in music

c. Identify sounds as fast/slow, loud/ soft (quiet), long/short, high/low

d. Explore and discuss sounds heard in selected environments

2:  Experience performance through singing and playing instruments

a.  Experiment with vocal sounds, such as singing, speaking, whispering, and calling, that use a variety of pitches within a limited vocal range

b. Listen to examples of adult male voices, adult female voices, and children’s voices

c. Practice “wait and listen” before imitating rhythmic and melodic patterns

d. Explore steady beat through singing, speaking and playing classroom instruments

e. Explore beat groupings (meter) through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments

f. Explore use of simple 2- or 4- beat rhythmic ostinatos

(fast and slow)

h. Experience as an audience member a variety of concerts, plays, and other age appropriate programming

3:  Respond to music through movement

a. Demonstrate understanding of personal space while moving to music

b.  Explore steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement

c. Follow simple directions or verbal cues in singing games

d. Use a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements to show meter

4:  Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds

a. Interpret picture symbols representing musical characteristics

2.0:  HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT: Students will demonstrate an understanding of music as an essential aspect of history and human experience

1:  Develop the ability to recognize music as a form of individual and cultural expression through experiencing music as both personal and societal expression

a. Explore music used in school and community

b. Sing and listen to music representative of different activities, holidays and seasons in a variety of world cultures

2:  Become acquainted with the roles of music in the lives of people

a.  Explore a rich repertoire of children’s music that includes singing games and finger play

b. Perform songs and dances from a variety of historical periods and world cultures including some connected to general classroom studies

3:  Explore the relationship of music to dance, theatre, the visual arts, and other disciplines

a.  Explore creative expression through music, dance, creative dramatics, and the visual arts

b. Participate in music activities that emphasize rhyming words and “all about me” themes

4.  Develop knowledge of a wide variety of styles and genres through the study of music history

a.  Listen to music representative of a variety of styles and genres and categorize it as “old” or “new” (“back in the day” or “today”)

3.0:  CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND PRODUCTION: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.

1:  Develop the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound

a. Sort classroom instruments by sound and playing techniques

b. Improvise simple text (one or two words) by “filling in the blank” in familiar songs

2:  Develop readiness for composing and arranging by experimenting with sound

a. Create a sound piece by interpreting pictorial representations of sounds

b. Use body percussion to create rhythmic sound patterns

4.0:  AESTHETIC CRITICISM: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments.

1:  Evaluate selected musical compositions using established criteria

a.  Verbalize or use visual representation for at least one reason for musical performance

2:  Develop personal aesthetic criteria for evaluating musical performances

a.  Develop vocabulary relative to performance evaluation