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  • Band
    • Band Instrument Tips
    • Fingering Charts- Band
    • Note Reading, Music Theory, and Ear Training
    • Band Practice Schedule
    • Band Warm-Ups
    • Extra Band Songs
  • Orchestra
    • Orchestra Instrument Tips
    • Fingering Charts- Orchestra
    • Note Reading, Music Theory, and Ear Training
    • Tuning Your Instrument
    • Orchestra Warm-Ups
    • Orchestra Music
    • Orchestra Practice Schedule
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    • Chorus Music
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    • Note Reading, Music Theory, and Ear Training
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CRUMPTON MUSIC

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


Last Updated: July 2022