California Kindergarten Music Standards

The Kindergarten standards

Connecting 2

• K.MU:Cn10

  With guidance share how personal interests connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Mi Sol La Intro (PK, Wk 21); Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28)

• K.MU:Cn11

  With guidance share connections between music and culture.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hi High C (K, Wk 11); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Compound Meter Part III (3, Wk 21); Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33)

Creating 6

• K.MU:Cr1a

  With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Tuning your Ukulele (5, Wk 4); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

• K.MU:Cr1b

  With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Wheels on the Bus (2, Wk 32); Do Mi Sol Slide (PK, Wk 5); The Itsy Bitsy Spider (PK, Wk 15); Merrily We Roll Along (PK, Wk 18)

• K.MU:Cr2a

  With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Major Chords (2, Wk 18); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26); Tuning your Ukulele (5, Wk 4)

• K.MU:Cr2b

  With guidance, organize personal musical ideas using iconic notation and/or recording technology.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Melodies, Lines and Spaces (1, Wk 4); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

• K.MU:Cr3.1

  With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

• K.MU:Cr3.2

  With guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas to peers.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

Performing 7

• K.MU:Pr4.1

  With guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22); It's Raining, It's Pouring (PK, Wk 23)

• K.MU:Pr4.2a

  With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different in a variety of music selected for performance.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Birds Fly (K, Wk 14); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3)

• K.MU:Pr4.3

  With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) that support the creators’ expressive intent.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); Dynamics (2, Wk 23)

• K.MU:Pr5a

  With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

• K.MU:Pr5b

  With guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34)

• K.MU:Pr6a

  With guidance, perform music with expression.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20)

• K.MU:Pr6b

  With guidance, demonstrate performance decorum appropriate for the audience.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

Responding 4

• K.MU:Re7.1

  With guidance, list personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some music selections over others.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Harmonizing Part II (3, Wk 30); Harmonizing Part III (3, Wk 31)

• K.MU:Re7.2

  With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Solfege Slide in C Major (PK, Wk 6)

• K.MU:Re8

  With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

• K.MU:Re9

  With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Dynamics (2, Wk 23)