School Improvement in Maryland

Using the State Curriculum: Music, Grade K

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Creative Expression and Production:

Music:

Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production

Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.

Indicator

  • 1. Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
Objectives
  1. Sort classroom instruments by sound and playing technique
  2. Improvise simple text (one or two words) by filling in the blanks of familiar songs with other selected words to create new meaning

Indicator

  • 2. Investigate composing music through experimentation with sound and the tools of composition
Objectives
  1. Create a sound piece by interpreting visual representations of sound, using a variety of modalities, such as classroom instruments, environmental sounds, the voice, body percussion, and found objects
  2. Create rhythmic sound patterns using body percussion

August 6, 2008