Music: Grades K, 1

Music

Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.

Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as other content areas.

Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Observe, discuss, analyze and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression.

Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Sing and play instruments with appropriate techniques while maintaining a steady beat.

Identify timbre (tone quality) of various families of instruments.

Acquire beat and rhythmic competency skills.

Identify basic musical notation and symbols

Understand how music expresses ideas.

Identify terms common to the various art forms.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other content areas.

Develop musical accompaniments related to other art forms or content areas.

Identify how music can support and enhance other disciplines.

Understand why music is created and how it is used.

Understand how music is created.

Identify simple music forms when presented aurally.

Identify the sounds of more familiar instruments, as well as treble and bass voices.

Use appropriate terminology to discuss responses and reactions to particular musical works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Understand how various instruments have evolved.

Use appropriate music technology.

Model appropriate audience behavior at live concert performances.

Participate in appropriate school programs.

Share and develop cultural experiences.

Develop appropriate singing techniques and range (from keys E to B).

Develop appropriate instrument-playing techniques.

Make music using body percussion and simple rhythm band instruments.

Demonstrate a steady beat through movement, instruments and speech pieces.

Use iconic notation to identify steady beat and melodic direction.

Use descriptive vocabulary when responding to musical examples.

Explore the relationship between music elements and basic elements of other arts disciplines.

Generate inventive movement suggested by other content areas (e.g., math, language arts, science or social studies).

Use body percussion or rhythm instruments to accompany a song or speech piece.

Make simple connections between music and other content areas.

Develop an awareness of where music is found in the daily environment.

Demonstrate call and response, create simple rhythmic and melodic ostinati, and create simple melodies for everyday tasks.

Improvise a rhythmic or melodic response to a musical question.

Identify repeated patterns in music.

Distinguish between woods, metals and drums.

Distinguish between a man's voice, a woman's voice and a child's voice.

Distinguish between speaking, whispering, singing and calling/shouting voice.

Describe various pieces of music using terms such as: fast/slow, high/low, loud/soft and various mood descriptors.

Sing songs from different cultures and in different languages.

Perform songs and musical games from New Mexico cultures.

Explore how instruments have developed and evolved from materials found in the environment.

Explore and experience traditional and non-traditional instruments.

Identify and label electronic technology used in music (e.g., stereo, compact discs, microphones, mp3 devices, electronic instruments)

Understand the role of the audience.

Prepare and perform age-appropriate material at school and community-based programs.

Celebrate customs, cultural traditions and American holidays, using music at or from home and in other social situations