Kindergarten
Creating
Students will conceive & develop new musical ideas and work.
Generate:
- K:I can, with guidance, explore and experience music concepts
Organize and Develop:
- K:I can, with guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas.
Refine and Complete:
- K:I can, with guidance, apply feedback and demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas
Presenting
Students will realize musical ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.
Select, Analyze, Interpret:
- K:I can, with guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different) in a variety of music selected for performance.
Develop and Refine:
- K:I can, with guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.
Convey Meaning:
- K:I can, with guidance, perform music with expression for an audience
Responding
Students will understand and evaluate how music conveys meaning.
Analyze:
- K:I can, with guidance, demonstrate how a specific musical concept is used in music
Interpret:
- K:I can, with guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect the performers’ expressive intent
Evaluate:
- K:I can apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Connecting
Students will relate musical ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
Synthesize:
- K:I can, with guidance, make connections between music and my own life
Relate:
- K:I can, with guidance, identify a connection between music and another discipline.
The curriculum in Kindergarten is based off of John Feierabend's First Steps in Music curriculum.
Students each week will participate in a musical workout that grows tuneful, beatful, and artful individuals.
1. Pitch Exploration (vocal warm-ups)
2. Song Fragments: Echo songs & Call-and-Response Songs
3. Simple Songs
4. Arioso (Child-created Tunes)
5. Song Tales
6. Movement Exploration (Movement warm-ups)
7. Movement for Form and Expression
8. Movement with the Beat
Goals for Children:
To experience activities that will prepare children for the development of:
1) Accurate rhythmic skills
2) Accurate singing skills
3) Sensitivity to the expressive qualities in music