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