All students at GFS begin each music class with a kinesthetic & vocal warm-up.
Kindergarteners at Green's Farms School will learn to:
(1) keep a steady beat (silent & aloud) using body percussion and instruments
(2) sing using an appropriate (healthy) singing voice
(3) echo vocal patterns using solfege syllables
(4) sing simple, call/response songs, folk and curricularly-appropriate songs (e.g. GFS School Songs, "There's A Hole In The Bucket", "You Are My Sunshine", etc..)
(5) dance organized dances and free-form dances (e.g. "Apple, Apple, Yum, Yum", "Seven Jumps", "Kinderpolka" plus "Valentine's Day" dances, etc...)
(6) play musical games (e.g. Freeze Dance, Wonderball, SoLaMi, etc...)
(7) tell a story using musical instruments (e.g. "Jack & The Beanstalk")
(8) explore pitched & unpitched instruments in the music room (e.g. hand drums, rhythm sticks, xylophones, metallophones & glockenspeils)
(9) listen and respond to music from a variety of cultures