Music Curriculum
Kindergarten
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Course Purpose: |
Students will explore the fundamental elements of music physically and aurally on a variety of instruments, and begin to analyze how music is connected to their home, community, and lived experiences. |
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Outcome # |
Outcome |
| FA.KM.1 | Students will keep the steady beat and the rhythm of a known song on a variety of instruments and verbally and visually be able to differentiate between the two. |
| FA.KM.2 | Students will perform and improvise using quarter notes, quarter rests, and two eighth notes on a variety of instruments, using visual aids and manipulatives. |
| FA.KM.3 | Students differentiate between and perform different stylistic contrasts in music (e.g. high/low, fast/slow, short/long, loud/soft, 4 types of voices). |
| FA.KM.4 | Students will prepare and perform, vocally and instrumentally, a variety of age and range-appropriate musical selections, with considerable guidance. |
| FA.KM.5 | Students will make connections between literature and music and between personal emotions and music, and will select personal music to fit with a work of literature. |
| FA.KM.6 | Students will sing accurately on sol and mi and explore and demonstrate various elements of music and movement (e.g. musical patterns, same/different, moving in a self-space, moving in a circle), , through the performance and analysis of classroom songs. |
| FA.KM.7 | Students will improvise and perform (with iconic notation) level borduns and melodic patterns (same/different, high/low), in AB and ABA form, on both pitched and unpitched instruments. |