Indiana Grades K–2 Music Standards

The Grades K–2 standards

Connect 3

• Cn.1.2.1

  Explore how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions, and discuss personal preference for different musical works.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Finding notes on the Treble Clef (1, Wk 3); Triad Part II (PK, Wk 30); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Resolutions (3, Wk 28)

• Cn.2.2.1

  Identify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Baby Shark (PK, Wk 27); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6)

• Cn.3.2.1

  Apply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 16); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29)

Listen/Respond 6

• Lr.4.2.1

  Audiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

• Lr.5.2.1

  Demonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Singing (2, Wk 21); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

• Lr.5.2.2

  Apply learned criteria to perceive accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Baby Shark (PK, Wk 27); Recorder Lord/Lady 3 - G Major Arpeggio (4, Wk 20); Recorder Dragon 1 - Let Us Play F (4, Wk 28); Recorder Dragon 2 - C to G Five Note Scale (4, Wk 29)

• Lr.6.2.1

  Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements to demonstrate and maintain a consistent steady beat in both simple and compound meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Singing (2, Wk 21); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30); Beet & Avocado (PK, Wk 26)

• Lr.6.2.2

  Apply gross and fine motor movement to show upward and downward melodies.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 27)

• Lr.6.2.3

  Identify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1)

Perform 5

• P.7.2.1

  Sing independently and in groups using head voice and appropriate posture, with accurate pitch and rhythm.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Short & Long with D (K, Wk 7); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1)

• P.7.2.2

  Sing simple songs with expressive qualities, varied tonalities, and meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30); Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• P.7.2.3

  Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences and purposes.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 27); Steps (2, Wk 6)

• P.8.2.1

  Accurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Harmonizing Part I (3, Wk 29); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Page 3 - B Shield Patterns (4, Wk 3)

• P.8.2.2

  Echo and read a variety of rhythmic and/or melodic patterns, and maintain a consistent steady beat while playing an instrument.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19); Wheels on the Bus (2, Wk 32)

Create 5

• Cr.9.2.1

  Improvise by singing a simple melody using self-created text.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 27); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22)

• Cr.9.2.2

  Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22)

• Cr.10.2.1

  Create movement patterns and describe their relationships to audiation and/or aurally perceived songs.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Bonjour B and Sol Ti Re (K, Wk 25); Fa, Sol, La (1, Wk 13); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); It's Raining, It's Pouring (PK, Wk 23)

• Cr.11.2.1

  Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to represent simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns of rhymes and songs.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Short & Long with D (K, Wk 7); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 3)

• Cr.11.2.2

  Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to demonstrate simple melodies and melodic patterns of rhymes and songs.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 28); The Itsy Bitsy Spider (1, Wk 30); Simple Songs Review (2, Wk 28)