Preparatory Music
Course Overview
Kindergarteners learn about music through lively activities, including listening, singing, and moving. Through games and folk songs from diverse cultures, students learn musical concepts such as high and low, or loud and soft. Creative movement activities help students enjoy the music of composers such as Grieg and Haydn.
Students will:
- Sing along with folk songs.
- Practice moving to music.
- Listen actively to different kinds of music.
- Understand concepts such as high and low, fast and slow, long and short, loud and soft.
- Identify and contrast beat and rhythm.
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Materials
Standard Curriculum Items
- Let's Learn Music video, Volume K
- Let's Listen CD, Volume K
- Let's Sing CD, Volume K
- Let’s Sing songbook, Volume K
Tambourine
Slide whistle
NOTE: List subject to change.
Lesson Time and Scheduling
Total lessons: 72
Lesson time: 60 minutes
You might choose to split the lessons into smaller segments, for example, from 20 to 25 minutes. The K12 online lesson tracking system allows you to pick up wherever you left off in any given lesson.
Sample Lesson: Music
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