Grade K • Music What Your Child Will Learn

Grade K Music

What Your Child Will Learn

At all levels, music education in Howard County focuses around these three artistic processes:

  • Performing: Realizing artistic ideas and work through individual or ensemble performance or presentation
  • Creating: Conceiving and developing artistic ideas through music making while connecting to historical, contextual, and personal events
  • Responding: Synthesis of meaning, context, and process through interaction with, and connection to the musical world

Musical concepts are carefully sequenced through kinesthetic, aural, and visual experiences. The student's singing voice is the primary instrument and developed throughout the elementary general music curriculum.

Melody and Pitch

  • Identify high and low sounds.
  • Practice “wait and listen” before imitating melodic patterns.

Tone Color

  • Identify classroom instruments, such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, tambourines and hand drums.
  • Explore and discuss environmental sounds.
  • Listen to examples of adult male and female and children voices.
  • Experiment with singing, whispering, calling, and speaking voices.

Tempo

  • Identify fast and slow.
  • Match tempo (fast and slow).

Rhythm

  • Explore steady beat through singing, playing, and speaking matching tempo.
  • Explore long/short sounds.
  • Practice “wait and listen” before imitating rhythmic patterns.
  • Explore steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing instruments.

Movement

  • Show understanding of personal space while moving to music.
  • Explore steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement.
  • Follow simple directions or verbal cues in singing games.
  • Use a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movement to show meter.

Dynamics

  • Recognize and perform loud and soft sounds.

Form

  • Identify repeated patterns.