About Music in Kindergarten:
Kindergarteners have General Music class once a week for 45 minutes. In these classes, students are
experimenting and finding their singing voice
exploring a steady beat, with and without instruments
using a variety of vocal exercises to discover their head voice.
participating in a variety of fun, interactive singing and movement games throughout class
singing solos as well as with the class
creating their own "songs," through the "land of arioso."
actively listening, moving, and playing instruments to various kinds of music.
Songs learned in Kindergarten include:
Closet Key
No More Pie
Down By the Bay
Wise Old Owl
In the Woods
I Met a Bear
Charlie Over the Ocean
Tongo (Polynesian)
Kye Kye Kule (Ghanian)
Caney Mi Macaro (Spanish)
Au Clair de la Lune (French)
Eensy Weensy Spider
And many more...