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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)
With substantial guidance, generates musical ideas (such as movements or motives). (Cr2.1.PKa)
With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas. (Cr2.1.PKa)
Initiate words to songs and song gestures (Cr3.2PKa)
With guidance, creates and improvises music using their voice and/or instruments. (Cr3.2.PKa)
PERFORMING
Teacher modeling songs, Pitch Exploration
Beat motions with recordings, Personalize songs
Child initiated beat motions.
Naming songs
Arioso singing, initiating beat
With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different). (Pr4.2PKa)
With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine classroom performances. (Pr5.1.PKb)
Perform appropriately for the audience and work cooperatively in a group. (Pr6.1.PKa)
RESPONDING
Movement and Pitch exploration/ Feierabend
Call and Response songs, varied repertoire of songs
Whole Body Listening, School Sing Alongs and Assemblies
With guidance, explore high/low voice singing. (Re7.2.PKa) Arioso singing, Big and Little Dog
With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music. (Re7.2.PKa) Pitch exploration/Feierabend
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) 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
