AE17.MU.K.10

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Music

AE17.MU.K.10
Apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?

Skills Examples

Performing

Demonstrate same and different (e.g., fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low and long/short).
Demonstrate a steady beat and maintain it while performing.
Sing using head voice and appropriate posture.
Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others, and demonstrate proper technique.

Creating

Create a wide variety of vocal and instrumental sounds.

Reading/ Writing

Explore connections between sound and its visual representation.

Responding/ Evaluating

Move to music of various and contrasting styles, composers and cultures.
Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Steady beat
Long/ Short
One and two sounds per beat
Silent beat

Melody

High and low
Pitch set: So, Mi
Musical alphabet

Harmony

Accompaniment/ no accompaniment

Form

Like and unlike phrases
Echo

Expression

Speak, sing, shout, whisper
Solo/ Group
Unpitched percussion
Flute, trumpet, violin, piano
Loud/ Soft
Fast/ Slow

Other

Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.