State Curriculum - Music

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Grade PK Grade K
Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.: Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.:
1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment
1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment
a. Explore a range of classroom instruments such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, and tambourines
a. Experiment with a range of classroom instruments such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, tambourines, and hand drums
b. Respond to repeated patterns heard in music
b. Identify repeated patterns heard in music
c. Respond to changes heard in music: fast/slow, loud/soft(quiet), long/short, high/low
c. Identify sounds as fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low
d. Explore sounds in selected environments such as classroom, playground, field trip, cafeteria
d. Explore and discuss sounds heard in selected environments such as classroom, playground, field trip, cafeteria
2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others
2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others
a. Sing songs that use the voice in a variety of ways
a. Experiment with vocal sounds that use a variety of pitches: singing in an age-appropriate range, speaking, whispering, and calling
b. Listen to examples of adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices
b. Listen to examples of adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices
c. Wait and listen before imitating rhythmic and melodic patterns
c. Wait and listen before imitating rhythmic and melodic patterns
d. Explore steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
d. Explore steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
  e. Explore beat groupings (meter) through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
  f. Explore use of simple 2- or 4-beat rhythmic ostinatos
  g. Sing or play in groups, matching tempo (fast and slow)
  h. Experience as an audience member a variety of concerts, plays, and other age-appropriate programming
3. Respond to music through movement
3. Respond to music through movement
a. Express music through movement, developing the concept of personal space ("bubble space")
a. Demonstrate understanding of personal space while moving to music
b. Respond to steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
b. Explore and recognize steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
c. Listen for simple directions or verbal cues in singing games
c. Follow simple directions or verbal cues in singing games
d. Explore a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements to show meter
d. Use a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements to show meter
4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
  a. Interpret picture symbols representing musical characteristics
  b. Interpret stem notation used to represent rhythms
 

 

August 6, 2008