Music: Grade K

Perceiving/Knowing/Creating

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Identify same and different (e.g., fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low and long/short).

Explore steady beat and rhythm.

Listen to and explore the music of various styles, composers, periods and cultures.

Explore and identify a wide variety of sounds, including the human voice.

Explore a variety of classroom instruments. (e.g., metals, skins and woods.).

Attend live music performances.

Identify a musician and his or her roles (e.g., composer, conductor and performer).

Explore connections between sound and its visual representation.

Demonstrate same and different (e.g., fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low and long/short).

Demonstrate a steady beat and maintain it while performing.

Sing (using head voice and appropriate posture) and move to music of various and contrasting styles, composers and cultures.

Create a wide variety of vocal and instrumental sounds.

Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others, and demonstrate proper technique.

Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

Create a visual representation of sound.

Share ideas about musical selections of various and contrasting styles, composers and musical periods.

Describe how sounds and music are used in our daily lives.

Describe the difference between steady beat and rhythm.

Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular subject.

Identify and discuss various uses of music in the United States and the various meanings of the term "musician."

Respond to sound with a drawing of how the sound makes them feel.

Offer opinions about their own musical experiences and responses to music.