Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a time for students to begin to learn to be tuneful, beatful, artful, and playful with music. We sing songs, play instruments, play games, explore movement possibilities, and create our own music! Students are constantly engaged in ACTIVE music making to learn about these concepts. I believe active music making inspires a love of music in everyone and is the most important part of any music curriculum. Active music making provides opportunity for creativity and allows children to perform at their individual ability levels.
Major curriculum outcomes for Kindergarten include knowing that sounds can be high or low, fast or slow, loud or soft, and equal or unequal (jogging versus skipping). Students will also learn that people use sound to make music, music expresses feelings, people all around the world create music, people interpret music in different ways, and music can be defined. To learn these things, students will sing, move, listen, and play instruments. In addition to Gateway's curriculum goals, I have added beginning music literacy goals in order to engage students in critical thinking. These goals include steady beat notation, beginning notation for high and low sounds, and beginning rhythm notation of long and short sounds.
Major curriculum outcomes for Kindergarten include knowing that sounds can be high or low, fast or slow, loud or soft, and equal or unequal (jogging versus skipping). Students will also learn that people use sound to make music, music expresses feelings, people all around the world create music, people interpret music in different ways, and music can be defined. To learn these things, students will sing, move, listen, and play instruments. In addition to Gateway's curriculum goals, I have added beginning music literacy goals in order to engage students in critical thinking. These goals include steady beat notation, beginning notation for high and low sounds, and beginning rhythm notation of long and short sounds.