Subject: General Music/

KINDERGARTEN
First Marking Period
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Sing, hear, use varying dynamic levels

Use tern, hear, sing echo
Identify loud/soft
Hear examples of speaking and singing voices
Use singing and calling voices
Listen to orchestra
Identify fast/slow
Listen to music with strong steady beat
Keep beat with body percussion
Hear, sing, recognize high and low sounds
Recognize difference between whole and part
Show understanding of section of song (verse, refrain)
Sing folk and composed songs
Show understanding of differing styles (march/lullaby)
Use terms loud and soft in singing and moving
Explore environmental and classroom instruments
Identify long/short sounds and symbols
Associate high with small, low with large
Recognize melody alone or with accompaniment
Begin to recognize same/different (melody, rhythm, words of song)
Begin responding to phrase length
Notice ways that elements of music affect style

Second Marking Period

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Choose appropriate level of dynamics

Identify triangle, rhythm sticks, drum, and tambourine by sight and sound
Recognize faster/slower
Compare beat with no beat
Say, pat, play rhythm of names, short word patterns
Recognize and use the term beat
Identify pitches as higher or lower
Identify introduction of songs
Wait for introductions, interludes
Hear, sing American Indian song, Thanksgiving songs, folk songs, composed
songs
Respond to different dynamics when echoing, singing, and speaking
Identify voices of men, women, children
Name and play jingle bells, wood block, xylophone, glockenspiel, bells, and drum
Recognize, use faster/slower

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Pat beat with familiar songs and rhymes

Learn representation of beats in picture form
Sing and hear music containing beat
Add accompaniment to songs
Identify high/low
Find and name same/different phrases

Third Marking Period

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Hear and use loud and soft

Recognize difference between an instrument of definite pitch and one of indefinite
pitch
Hear and see orchestral instruments
Identify slow, fast, and changes in tempo
Recognize notation for a sound one beat long and for a silent beat
Sing ostinato
Find, label same/different
See, create visual represation of same/ different
Identify four types of voices (whispering, singing, speaking, calling)
Listen to trumpet, tuba, piano, band, and symphony
Hear, sing, use strong beat
Perform melody with rhythm and/or speech ostinato
Listen to music of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries

Fourth Marking Period

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Identify flute, piccolo, violin

Move to show style and elements of music
Identify trumpet, tympani
Create variations in vocal and instrumental tone qualities
Label short ABA forms
Hear and sing music from other cultures