Music: Grade Pre-K

Singing and playing instruments

Creating music

Responding to music

Understanding music

The student uses her/his voice expressively as she/he speaks, chants, and sings.

The student sings a variety of simple songs in various keys, meters, and genres, alone and with a group becoming increasingly accurate in rhythm and pitch.

The student experiments with a variety of instruments and other sound sources.

The student plays simple melodies and accompaniments on instruments.

The student improvises songs to accompany her/his play activities.

The student improvises instrumental accompaniments to songs, recorded selections, stories and poems.

The student creates short pieces of music using voices, instruments and other sound sources.

The student invents and uses original graphic or symbolic systems to represent vocal and instrumental sounds and musical ideas.

The student identifies the sources of a wide variety of sounds.

The student responds through movement to music of various tempos, meters, dynamics, modes, genres, and styles to express what they hear and feel in works of music.

The student participates freely in music activities.

The student uses her/his own vocabulary and standard music vocabulary to describe voices, instruments, music notation, and music of various genres, styles and periods from diverse cultures.

The student sings, plays instruments, moves or verbalizes to demonstrate awareness of the elements of music and changes in their usage.

The student demonstrates an awareness of music as a part of daily life.

increases variety and appropriateness of vocal expression in a variety of settings using developmentally appropriate vocal production.

sings familiar songs to express ideas, feelings and events using developmentally and individually appropriate vocal skills.

demonstrates understanding of cause and effect, realizing that he or she is in control of the sound source and manner of production within individual fine motor skill ability.

plays simple melodies and accompaniments on instruments with increasing accuracy and independence using individually and developmentally appropriate fine motor skills.

improvises songs using one or more musical elements to accompany a variety of play activities.

improvises own instrumental accompaniment to enhance songs, recorded selections, stories and poems of varying styles, genre or cultures alone or in a group.

uses/arranges/sequences short patterns/sections of music (repetitions, contrasts) to create short pieces of music using voices, instruments, and other sound sources at individual and developmentally appropriate levels.

creates or draws known or original graphic representations, manipulatives, models, or symbols to represent vocal and instrumental sounds and musical ideas using a variety of media appropriate to developmental and individual skill levels.

associates a specific movement, picture, graphic representation or word as a representation of individual sounds.

moves independently and appropriately to demonstrate what she/he hears and feels in response to examples of various musical elements in music of varying genres and styles using individual and developmentally appropriate gross and fine motor skills.

participates freely (independently or with a group) in music activities representing a variety of styles or genre at appropriate and individual skill levels.

uses personal and standard music vocabulary to describe music qualities in varying musical contexts.

uses personal and standard music vocabulary (appropriate to developmental level, language level and culture) to describe music qualities in varying musical contexts.

responds to, asks for, chooses or makes appropriate music during daily activities and routines in familiar locations.