In the first nine weeks of Kindergarten Music, students will:

• Keep a steady beat to a varied repertoire of music.  

• Recognize and use speaking, singing, whispering, and shouting voices.  

• Sing simple songs.  

• Use rhythmic speech.  

• Learn to move safely around the music room.  

• Add movement to music.  

• Play unpitched percussion instruments.  

• Describe that instruments make sound through vibration.  

Songs Include:

• Name Game  (Sing your name)

• Oh My, No More Pie (Echo singing)

• Allee Galloo (Scarf activity)

• Sing Hello (greeting song)

• Shake Them Simmons Down (scarf activity)

• Miss Mary Mack  

• It's So Good to See You (greeting song)

• Listen Listen

• Johnny Had One Friend

• Johnny on the Wood Pile

• I Know A Chicken 

• Color Song

• I Go Up the Apple Tree

• Friend Oh Friend  (greeting song)

• Apple Tree, Apple Tree

• Sticky Sticky Bubble Gum

Rhythmic Speech Pieces Include:

• Speak / Whisper / Shout / Sing

• Five Little Hot Dogs

• Bubble Gum Bubble Gum In  A Dish

Instruments Include:

• Ukulele (strum the strings to see vibration / creation of sound)

• Triangle

• Hand Drum

• Egg Shakers

• Sand Blocks

• Wood Block

• Tone Block

• Boom Whackers

Movement Songs/Activities Include:

• Alee Galloo

• Shake Them Simmons Down

• Wishy Washy

• Seven Jumps

• We keep a steady beat at the beginning of each class to a piece of music.  Students will use the stretchy band, pool noodles, instruments, beat buddies, or their hands to keep a steady beat during the music.  

Stories Include:

• I Ain't Gonna Paint No More

Musical Terms Introduced:

• Steady Beat  

• Vibrate (instruments vibrate to make a sound)

• Rest (no sound in music)

2023 Indiana State Music Standards

• Anchor Standard 1: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.

  • • Cn.1.2.1 Explore how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions, and discuss personal preference for different musical works.

• Anchor Standard 2: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

  • • Cn.2.2.1 Identify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.

• Anchor Standard 3: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.

  • • Cn.3.2.1 Apply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed

• Anchor Standard 4: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by music audiation

  • • Lr.4.2.1 Audiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities.

• Anchor Standard 5: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components

  • • Lr.5.2.1 Demonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary.

    • Lr.5.2.2 Apply learned criteria to perceive accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

• Anchor Standard 6: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement

  • • Lr.6.2.1 Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements to demonstrate and maintain a consistent steady beat in both simple and compound meters

    • Lr.6.2.2 Apply gross and fine motor movement to show upward and downward melodies

    • Lr.6.2.3 Identify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances

• Anchor Standard 7: Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation

  • • P.7.2.1 Sing independently and in groups using head voice and appropriate posture, with accurate pitch and rhythm

    • P.7.2.2 Sing simple songs with expressive qualities, varied tonalities, and meters

    • P.7.2.3 Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences and purposes

• Anchor Standard 8: Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation

  • • P.8.2.1 Accurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique

    • P.8.2.2 Echo and read a variety of rhythmic and/or melodic patterns, and maintain a consistent steady beat while playing an instrument

• Anchor Standard 9: Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

  • • Cr.9.2.1 Improvise by singing a simple melody using self-created text.

    • Cr.9.2.2 Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

• Anchor Standard 10: Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiation and aurally perceived music.

  • • Cr.10.2.1 Create movement patterns and describe their relationships to audiation and/or aurally perceived songs.

• Anchor Standard 11: Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation

  • • Cr.11.2.1 Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to represent simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns of rhymes and songs

    • Cr.11.2.2 Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to demonstrate simple melodies and melodic patterns of rhymes and songs.