Choral Music: Grade K

Music Performance

Creating Music

Music Literacy

Critical Response to Music

History and Culture

Making Connections

The student will sing and perform on instruments a variety of music, alone and with others.

The student will improvise, compose, and arrange music within specified guidelines.

The student will read and notate music.

The student will listen to, describe, analyze, and evaluate music and music performances.

The student will examine and perform music from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

The student will make connections between music and other arts disciplines, other content areas, and the world.

Singing

Playing

Improvising

Composing and Arranging

Read and perform rhythmic notation using traditional, nontraditional, and invented symbols to represent beat, divided beat, and rest.

Read and perform melodic notation in pentatonic mode using traditional, nontraditional, and invented symbols to represent pitch.

Invent symbols and icons to represent loud and soft and fast and slow.

Use icons for writing musical ideas (for example, short or long dashes for rhythm, placement of icons high or low for pitch).

Analyzing

Evaluating

Sing a diverse repertoire of music from various cultures.

Use personal vocabulary to describe voices, instruments, and stylistic differences in music of various genres from the diverse cultures of the world.

Integrate music and storytelling by adding sound effects to selected stories and poems.

Integrate the subject matter of non-arts classes into the music class by singing songs that reinforce language arts and mathematics curricula.

Identify music careers in familiar settings.

Describe the tasks that musicians perform in their job.

Discuss the fact that music supplies cost money.

Explore career options in music and recognize which options are a source of personal income.

Sing songs and play games representative of daily real-life experiences.

Discuss ways that activities performed in music classes can be used in other daily activities.

Discuss places where people go to hear music being performed.

Echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Sing songs in a developmentally appropriate range and match the pitch.

Speak, chant, sing, and move to demonstrate awareness of beat.

Sing a varied repertoire of developmentally appropriate songs in unison.

Experiment with a variety of vocal sounds including singing, speaking, shouting, and whispering.

Explore a variety of pitched and unpitched instruments as well as other sound sources, including body percussion.

Improvise rhythm chants with words and syllables.

Speak short rhythmic variations on phrases in familiar songs.

Use body percussion to improvise simple rhythmic accompaniments.

Demonstrate creativity by composing and using symbols to represent music beats.

Demonstrate awareness of aural and visual examples of same and different.

Demonstrate awareness of aural and visual examples of same and different.

Use personal vocabulary to describe music from diverse cultures.

Describe basic elements of music such as pitch, tempo, and dynamics.

Identify the sources of a variety of sounds including vocal (child, male, female) and instrumental.

Demonstrate his or her perceptual skills by moving in response to the beat, tempo, dynamics, and the lyrics.

Respond to specific elements of musical works that evoke emotion.

Identify his or her preference for specific musical works.