GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS & INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES Essential Questions: Creating – How can I use my voice to create ideas? Performing – How do musicians improve the quality of our performance? Responding – How does structure and context inform response? Connecting - How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding? Grade Level Expectations
Instructional Strategies
CREATING With substantial guidance, explores and experiences a variety of music (Cr1.1.PKa)
Teacher modeling songs, Pitch Exploration
With substantial guidance, generates musical ideas (such as movements or motives). (Cr2.1.PKa)
Beat motions with recordings, Personalize songs
With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas. (Cr2.1.PKa)
Child initiated beat motions.
Initiate words to songs and song gestures (Cr3.2PKa)
Naming songs
With guidance, creates and improvises music using their voice and/or instruments. (Cr3.2.PKa)
Arioso singing, initiating beat
PERFORMING With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different). (Pr4.2PKa)
Movement and Pitch exploration/ Feierabend
With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine classroom performances. (Pr5.1.PKb)
Call and Response songs, varied repertoire of songs
Perform appropriately for the audience and work cooperatively in a group. (Pr6.1.PKa)
Whole Body Listening, School Sing Alongs and Assemblies
RESPONDING With guidance, explore high/low voice singing. (Re7.2.PKa) With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music. (Re7.2.PKa) Explore basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements (including but not limited to, walk, run, hop, jump, gallop, slide, skip, bend, twist and sway), travelling forward and backward. (Re7.2.PKa)
Arioso singing, Big and Little Dog Pitch exploration/Feierabend
Move It! DVD, , Movement videos, song games
With guidance, explore and differentiate expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) (Re8.1.PKa)
Movement exploration/Feierabend Story books
Respond with voice, body and/or instruments to music (Re8.1.PKa)
Recorded music, class songs
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