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Colorado Kindergarten Music Standards
Every Kindergarten standard from the Colorado Academic Standards: Music (2022), grouped by strand, with the Prodigies PK-5 lessons that teach each one.
Kindergarten has 9 music standards in Colorado: Expression (3); Creation (1); Theory (3); Response (2).
Prodigies PK-5 has a lesson for 4 of 9 of them.
| Official name | Colorado Academic Standards: Music (2022) |
|---|---|
| Published by | Colorado Department of Education |
| Adopted | 2022 |
| Grades on this page | Kindergarten |
| Standards on this page | 9 |
| Code format | MU.K.1.1 |
| Organized by | Expression, Creation, Theory, Response |
| Official source | cde.state.co.us |
The Kindergarten standards
Expression 3
MU.K.1.1Respond to musical opposites. Students Can: a. Echo and perform melodic and rhythmic patterns. b. Respond (sing, move, and play) to changes in mood or form (e.g., beat, tempo, dynamics, and melodic direction). c. Respond (sing, move, and play) to music, differentiating between sound and silence.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24)
MU.K.1.2Perform/Demonstrate developmentally appropriate songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, expressive elements. Students Can: a. Demonstrate using developmentally appropriate songs and singing games from a variety of cultures. b. Demonstrate speaking, singing, whispering, shouting, and inner voice (audiation).
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); C Major & G Major (K, Wk 26); C Major scale note review (K, Wk 34); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)
MU.K.1.3Apply teacher critique and self-reflection to refine individual technique and performance of developmentally appropriate songs. Students Can: a. Engage in refinement and feedback processes to prepare music for performance. b. Self-evaluate to refine musical performance.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Harmonizing Part I (3, Wk 29); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Recorder Lord/Lady 3 - G Major Arpeggio (4, Wk 20)
Creation 1
MU.K.2.1Compose, improvise, and arrange simple patterns using rhythm and/or pitch. Students Can: a. Compose a short pattern to represent a character or idea in a story or poem. b. Improvise sound effects and simple patterns to stories and poems. c. Arrange sound effect patterns to embellish songs, stories and poems.
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36)
Theory 3
MU.K.3.1Identify and demonstrate melodic and rhythmic opposites. Students Can: a. Melody: Identify and demonstrate high/low, same/different, up/down. b. Rhythm: Identify/differentiate and demonstrate beat/no beat, same/different.
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Bonjour B and Sol Ti Re (K, Wk 25); Do Mi Sol Slide (PK, Wk 5); Recorder Lord/Lady 2 - G to D Five Note Scale (4, Wk 19); Recorder King/Queen 2 - Introduction to Transposing (4, Wk 24)
MU.K.3.2Identify and demonstrate tempo and dynamic opposites. Students Can: a. Tempo: Identify/differentiate and demonstrate fast/slow. b. Dynamics: Identify/differentiate and demonstrate loud/quiet, sound/silence, same/different.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Dynamics (2, Wk 23)
MU.K.3.3Identify and demonstrate basic form and timbre elements. Students Can: a. Timbre: Aurally identify vocal/instrumental sounds, speaking/singing/whispering/shouting voices. b. Form: Aurally identify same/different, introduction, question/answer.
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4)
Response 2
MU.K.4.1Describe musical preferences in their own words. Students Can: a. Communicate understanding of musical ideas or moods through a variety of mediums and modalities (e.g., movement, drawing, story-telling). b. Apply musical concepts to describe personal preferences or reactions to music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25)
MU.K.4.2Recognize relationships between music and celebrations in daily life. Students Can: a. Recognize the use of music in media. b. Listen and respond to various musical styles (such as marches and lullabies). c. Communicate how music for various purposes contributes to specific experiences.
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)
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The Colorado Kindergarten music standards checklist
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