Music: Grade Pre-K

Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.

Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of music as an essential aspect of history and human experience.

Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments.

Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment

Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others

Respond to music through movement

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

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

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

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

Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound

Investigate composing music through experimentation with sound and the tools of composition

Express preferences about selected musical compositions

Explore a range of classroom instruments such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, and tambourines

Respond to repeated patterns heard in music

Respond to changes heard in music: fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low

Explore sounds in selected environments such as classroom, playground, field trip, cafeteria

Sing songs that use the voice in a variety of ways

Listen to examples of adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices

Wait and listen before imitating rhythmic and melodic patterns

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

Express music through movement, developing the concept of personal space ("bubble space")

Respond to steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement

Listen for simple directions or verbal cues in singing games

Explore a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements to show meter

Explore music used in daily living

Sing songs representative of different activities, holidays, and seasons in a variety of world cultures

Explore a rich repertoire of music representing its roles in the lives of people, such as lullabies

Explore creative expression through music as it relates to dance, creative dramatics, and the visual arts

Participate in music activities that emphasize alphabet recognition, spatial relationships, and counting

Listen to two versions of the same piece and identify them as same or different, such as a vocal version and a strictly instrumental version

Experiment with sound patterns through exploration of classroom instruments

Use the voice to improvise animal and environmental sounds

Explore the use of pictorial representations for sound

Use body percussion to create sound patterns

Verbalize or use visual representation for at least one reason for musical preference