Kindergarten

Kindergarten builds on many basic concepts including keeping a steady beat, singing with others, playing instruments, and singing on pitch using solfege syllables.  We do this through different song games, simple songs, basic discussion, and music technology.  More specific activities and concepts are listed below:

• Learn and demonstrate classroom rules and procedures through music

• Keep a steady beat through various game and activities (e.g., "Count and Go," "Listen as I Play the Beat," beat charts, and others)

• Learn and differentiate various timbres in voices and instruments through games and activities (e.g., "Doggy, Doggy, Where's Your Bone?," "Hickety Tickety," "Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track," Peter and the Wolf, and others)

• Play various percussion instruments (e.g., rhythm sticks, triangles, tambourines, shakers/maracas, and others)

• Sing various patriotic, holiday, and seasonal songs for different occasions (e.g., "Star-Spangled Banner," "Halloween Looby Loo," "I'm a Little Snowflake," The Turkey Game, and Kindergarten Promotion)

• Use and identify different ways to use the voice (e.g., speaking voice, quiet voice, outside voice, singing voice, etc.)

• Read and create simple rhythms (e.g., quarter and eighth notes, or "tas" and "ti-tis")

• Sing alone (solo) and with others

• Sing and identify high and low sounds through music and activities (e.g., "Autumn Leaves")

• Move with and identify fast and slow music through games and activities (e.g., moving to music

• Sing and identify loud and soft sounds through games and activities (e.g., "Grizzly Bear)

• Learn about and sing music from other cultures and countries (e.g., "Sambalele" from Brazil,  and "Kumbayah" from Africa)

• Learn and sing solfege syllables DO, RE, MI, FA, and SO(L)

• Learn simple forms of music (e.g., verse-chorus form)