Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- Maintaining a steady beat is necessary when singing and moving
- Music can be expressed in many ways
- Movement and dance are an important part of all
cultures
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should
be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- How does singing help me when I move?
- What can help me improve my singing?
- How does movement help me describe music?
- How can I portray music through movement for
those who do not hear it?
- How do singing, movement and dance of different
cultures compare to movement and dance in my life?
- How do singing, movement and dance help me
compare different traditions through music?
Standards-Based
Assessments
Standard I. Sings and plays instruments, alone and
with others. (Sings using the head voice. Maintains a steady beat
within a group. Performs a given part at different dynamic levels.)
Standard II. Reads and writes musical
notation. (No items are assessed for this standard at this level.)
Standard III.
Creates music. (No items are assessed for this standard at this
level.)
Standard IV.
Analyzes/describes and evaluates music.
(Uses movement to
communicate high/low. Uses movement to communicate fast/slow.)
Standard V.
Demonstrates an understanding of music in relation to history,
culture, and community traditions. (Performs movements/dances from
various countries/cultures. Performs/identifies music associated with
various world cultural traditions. Performs/identifies American folk
songs. Performs/identifies music that reflects community
traditions.)
Math in Music
Identify
simple patterns (assessment and exploration).
Standard 1: Number Sense September
 Order
numbers 1 – 20.
Music classes reinforce the study of patterns in mathematics. Through music
exercises, students observe patterns in beat, rhythm, and melodic patterns.
Music lesson reinforce number sense as students recognize and sing intervals
and use music terms to describe where notes are located on a scale; high or
low. Singers will Identify simple patterns
in songs. Students will also learn to sing the
scale counting notes within an octave as 1-8.
Literacy in Music
Phonemic Awareness: Hear the similarities of sounds in words and
rhythmical patterns in a sequence (e.g. word families). Count the number of
syllables in a word (word parts) Initial sounds. Segment words into
phonemes and sounds.
Music classes reinforce literacy skills by helping students hear the
similarities of sounds in words and rhythmical patterns in a sequence (e.g.
word families). Music allows students to hear the number of syllables in
words as they learn to sing songs with simple melodies. Rhythm activities
with block, sticks, and rhythm instruments help students hear and feel the
rhythm in multi-syllabic words. |
