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Yearly Overview
Kindergarten Music
Topic 1: Vocal Tone Color
Lessons:
Greetings: Students will echo-speak with vocal inflection and say their own name in an echo
game.
Writing assignment: Students will create a greeting banner
Johnny Works with One Hammer: Students will echo-speak a rhyme with gestures and sing a
song with their singing voice.
Writing Assignment: Students will create a career booklet
Down By The Bay: Students will point to indicate recognition of one of the four voice functions
heard and stand and sit to identify speaking and singing voice functions used in echoing a
song
Writing Assignment: Students will identify numbers on index cards and draw the same
number of seeds on watermelons.
Five Little Pumpkins: Students will sing a song and improvise movement. Students will speak
a poem using expressive vocal inflection.
Writing Assignment: Students will create pumpkins and label their parts.
The Muffin Man: Students will play a game for individual singing and determine whether or
not they can recognize someone only by his or her voice.
Writing Assignment: Students will write what their favorite type of muffin in and
illustrate it.

Topic 2: Dynamics/Tempo
Lessons:
Wake Me, Shake Me: Students will play drums loudly and softly and sit up or lie down to show
whether sounds are loud or soft
Writing Assignment: Students will identify loud and soft objects by circling them in a
photo and complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet on loud and soft.
Play the Drum: Students will play drums loudly and softly as appropriate with a speech piece.
Writing Assignment: Students will write L for loud and S for soft underneath pictures
of objects.
Little Blue Truck: Students will move at the speed of the beat in a song that includes faster and
slower tempos. Students will identify tempo as fast or slow.
Writing Assignment: Students will cut out different pictures of trucks from newspapers
and magazines and make truck booklets

Topic 3: Composers
Lessons:
George Gershwin/ An American in Paris: Students will engage in story-making and sing and
move to melodic themes
Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music
made them feel.
Modest Mussorgsky/ Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks: Students will engage in story-making and
sing and move to melodic themes
Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music
made them feel.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/Flight of the Bumblebee: Students will engage in story-making and
sing and move to melodic themes
Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music
made them feel.
Edvard Grieg/ In the Hall of the Mountain King: Students will engage in story-making and
Diana Fox
Yearly Overview
Kindergarten Music
sing and move to melodic themes
Writing Assignment: Students will illustrate a picture and describe how the music
made them feel.
Topic 4: Beat
Lessons:
Autumn Leaves: Students will listen to a poem and create downward movement. Students will
sing a song, playing a pitched instrument with the steady beat.
Writing Assignment: Students will create a four-leaf palate and label the months
September, October, November, and December then color them according to the
season/month.
Jingle Bells/Mitten Song: Students will play a two-part circle game by jogging and playing the
bells. Students will sing a song using hand motions and walking the beat.
Writing Assignment: Students will decorate their own paper mittens and copy their
favorite line from the song.
Angel Band: Students will sing a two-section song using un-pitched instruments to emphasize
key words and steady beat.
Writing Assignment: Students will copy a simple greeting like JOY! Or PEACE and
make original holiday cards
I Am a Fine Musician: Students will read the book Max Found Two Sticks and then tap the
beat with rhythm sticks the song I Am a Fine Musician.
Writing Assignment: Students will draw a picture of them playing the sticks on an
object and title it (childs name) Found Two Sticks.
Topic 5: Pitch
Lessons:
Wee Willie Winkie: Students will speak and sing using higher and lower sounds
Students will add numbers to a clock
Magic Shoes: Students will walk to the steady beat of a poem and move up and down in
response to melodic direction.
Students will make life-sized outlines of their shoes and create their own pair of magic
shoes then complete the sentence, My magic shoes can _____________.
Engine, Engine Number Nine: Students will sing a song at fast, medium, and slow tempos and
move faster and slower while listening to a recording of a song.
Students will create train posters
Color Song: Students will follow hand gestures showing a high-low pattern in a song and play
a pitched instrument to accompany a song.
Students will sequence the order of objects in the song