Year-at-a-Glance

Music Listening Curriculum

Kindergarten Grade Teacher Ms. Grose

PERFORMING/CREATING RESPONDING:AMERICAN, POPULAR, RESPONDING: CLASSICAL MUSIC

WORLD MUSIC
AUGUST Vocal Exploration Hello Song Nocturne #9 in Eb: Chopin
Exploring Pitch Matching Warm-up Brain dance (all year)
Hello Around the World
Cobbler, Cobbler’
ABC Song
SEPTEMBER Loud/ Soft Are you sleeping? (soft) William Tell Overture: Rossini
High/ Low Little Sally Walker (loud) Peter and the Wolf: Prokofiev
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Peep Squirrel
Meet me at the Kitchen door
(different voices)
OCTOBER Long/ Short Three Blind Mice Sing, Sing, Sing: Benny
Que Lleva Goodman
A Tisket, A Tasket

NOVEMBER Body parts Head shoulders knees and toes March of the Siamese Children
Self and Shared Space Go In and Out the Window from the King and I
The March of the Siamese Children
(the king and I)
DECEMBER/ Steady beat/ no beat Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush The Nutcracker Suite:
JANUARY Los Elefantes (The Elephant Song Tchaikovsky
Snowflakes are falling all around.

FEBRUARY Levels Little Sally Walker Jupiter: Gustav Holst

Five Little Speckled Frogs Second Suite in F: Gustav Holst
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Music Listening Curriculum
Kindergarten Grade Teacher Ms. Grose

MARCH Timbre: sounds all around us Splish Splash Peer Gynt Suite no. 1: Edvard
Old MacDonald Grieg
Shoo, Turkey Le carnival des anumaux (the
Had a Little Rooster Carnival of the animals): Saint-
Abiyoyo (book) Saens
(This concert would be a plastique
anime/ dance style of concert to
represent different sounds and
feelings in music. )
APRIL Fast/slow Hanget Soi (fast) Horkstow Grange: Percy Aldridge
Oh Danny Boy (slow) Abrahm’s Pursuit: David Holsinger
Pizza Pizza
One Potato Two Potato.
MAY Form a circle Sally Go ‘Round the Sun (fun activity) The Nutcracker Suite (ballet)):
Ring around the Rosie Tchaikovsky
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
Frog in the Meadow

For at least 3 out of the 5 categories below, provide a description (at least 3-5 sentences) including the month, the repertoire, and the connections
you will provide to the curriculum.

Science:
Kindergarten students in the science classroom are excpected to RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details
in a text. This science standard is supported in the music classroom on a daily basis. Each time students learn new songs by rote I ask guided and
detailed questions about the song in order to aide in learning the song. For example in December with the song “Snowflakes are falling all
around.” One of the lyrics is Snowflakes are falling on my head, a question I would ask is what body part did the snowflakes fall on in this song?
This causes them to answer key details about the text provided.

Social studies:
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Music Listening Curriculum
Kindergarten Grade Teacher Ms. Grose

Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Research):

The Kindergarten Elementary Standards, in writing states Students must: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single
event or several loosely liked events, tell about the events in order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. In the music
classroom you can enhance these skills through students playing instruments. In March, I have listed the book Abiyoyo, during this lesson
students will be asked questions about characters and different emotions that stories can convey. To show their understanding of these questions
they will choose instruments to represent different characters and to aide in telling the story. This not only challenges their musical decision
making, but it aides in the development of their storytelling skills.

Health/P.E.:
Standard 1 of the Kindergarten Elementary Physical Education Curriculum states The student demonstrates competency in motor skills and
movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. Beginning immediately in August the Kindergarten music class will learn a
“brain dance” to be performed at the beginning of each class period. This brain dance incorporates cordistal movement, left and right movement,
and differentiation of up and down with various body parts. This brain dance encourages motor skill development and physical activity to prepare
for music class and aids in the 1st standard of the Kindergarten Elementary Physical Education Curriculum. Various folk-dances in months such
as November and May also provide cross-curricular connections.

Math:
At the beginning of the year (as stated above) the students will learn a brain dance. In this brain dance aside from physical education cross-
curricular opportunities, there are math cross-curricular opportunities as well. One of the songs performed in this brain dance is one two buckle
my shoe, which involves the students counting to 10 during the song. Other songs such as Meet me at the Kitchen door, in September and One
Potato Two Potato, in April provide more counting opportunities in the Kindergarten music classroom.