kindergarten curriculum

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Unit 1: Musical Me
Essential Questions:

• How can I make music?
• What kinds of music can I make?
• Where is music in my life?

Enduring Understandings:

• Music is all around me.
  
• I can make my own music using my singing voice and instruments.
  
• My talking voice, singing voice, whisper voice, and outside voice all sound different and are used for different occasions.
  

Objective:

• Use a singing voice
• Follow pitch contour 
  
• Keeping a steady beat
  

Skills associated with Objective:

• Talking vs. Singing  vs. Silly vs. Whisper vs. Calling Voices (Owl hoots, sirens, ect.)
  
• Show steady beat with body
  
• Show steady beat with rhythm sticks/ hand percussion
  
• Show melodic contour with body
  
• Echo solfeg: So, Mi, La

Unit 2: Musical Us
Essential Questions:

• How can we make music together?
  
• How do we work together as a musical team?

Enduring Understandings:

• We will be able to make music together if we work together.
  
• Moving together, listening, and watching help us stay together as a musical team.

Objective:

• Listening to each other
  
• Moving together
  
• Keeping a steady beat while switching jobs (such as in singing games, clapping games)
  
• Continue developing singing voices and beat competency
  

Skills associated with Objective:

• Rhythm vs. Beat
  
• Keep beat on hand percussion
  
• Echo rhythms on hand percussion and colorful xylophones
  
• Connect solfeg with xylophones (sol mi re do)
  
• Echo solfeg: Do, Re, Mi, So, La
  
• Read melodic contour written down

By the End of Kindergarten:

• Keep a steady beat
  
• Sing in a singing voice
  
• Demonstrate musical contour
  
• Demonstrate difference between rhythm and beat
  

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