Music: Pre-Kindergarten

Creating (CR)

Performing (PR)

Responding (RE)

Connecting (CN)

Generate musical ideas through reading, notating, and/or interpreting music. 

Present or demonstrate an existing musical work, formally or informally, with appropriate expressive and technical skills.

Respond to music while demonstrating respect for others’ music preferences and music performances.

Recognize the development of music from a social, cultural, and historical context. 

Explore the elements of music, including:

Explore melodic and rhythmic answers using voice and classroom instruments.

Explore movement (non-locomotor and locomotor) appropriate for the musical elements heard in various listening examples. 

With guidance, explore rhythmic and melodic notation through icons and pictures. 

Participate in music through singing (individually and in groups, as well as accompanied and unaccompanied) and playing instruments. 

Experience matching pitches, approach singing in tune, and use appropriate tone and expression.

Explore steady beat using instruments or body percussion to accompany songs and rhythm activities. 

Respond to the beat or rhythm in music by using non-locomotor or locomotor movement, body percussion, and playing classroom instruments. 

Recognize and practice appropriate audience and performer behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed. 

With guidance, respond, using directional movements or manipulatives, to the melodic contour of familiar songs. 

Sing and perform songs, chants, rhymes, singing games, and dances from a variety of cultures.

Beat/Meter (steady beat)

Pitch (high/low)

Tempo (fast/slow)

Dynamics (loud/quiet)