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State Music Standards

  1. Demonstrates the difference between singing and speaking voice.
  2. Recognizes that different sources make different sounds.
  3. Understands that musical notation moves from left to right.
  4. Recognizes same/different patterns in music.
  5. Speaks chants, sings songs, moves to the beat, demonstrates steady beat.
  6. Describes a specific musical piece.
  7. Demonstrates self-control as an audience member.
  8. Applies musical concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through 3 ways: performance, creation, and response.
  9. Recognize that feelings can be expressed through music.
  10. Uses music to communicate for a specific purpose or occasion.
  11. Use/find personal favorite musical activities.
  12. Recognize music in other subject areas.
  13. Identify examples of music around other parts of the school and describe them.
  14. Follow directions when promted on assigned tasks.

Music in Kindergarten

Most importantly - we learn to find the joy in music!

Class Activities

  1. We meet the state requirements for music at the kindergarten level with a high concentration on finding the steady beat through movement.
  2. We also use movements to help us interpret and express the meaning or message of the music - joy, silliness, sadness, tiredness, etc.
  3. We practice our audience and performance skills by having informal "concerts" for each other during class. We give a more professional performance in the spring for parents. We practice showing how we are listening with our body language, and how to applaud and support performers.
  4. We create music by experimentation with instruments, as well as learn how each one sounds, and how to properly treat it.
  5. We learn how to follow directions step by step to create and interpret music.
  6. We learn to show that sounds can correlate with visuals through drawings and lines.