Missouri Kindergarten Music Standards

The Kindergarten standards

Create 6

• MU:Cr1A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Cr1A.Kb

  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)

• MU:Cr2A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Cr2A.Kb

  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)

• MU:Cr3A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Cr3B.Ka

  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/Presenting/Producing 7

• MU:Pr4A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Pr4B.Ka

  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: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• MU:Pr4C.Ka

  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)

• MU:Pr5A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Pr5A.Kb

  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)

• MU:Pr6A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Pr6A.Kb

  Perform appropriately for the audience.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Responding 4

• MU:Re7A.Ka

  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)

• MU:Re7B.Ka

  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)

• MU:Re8A.Ka

  With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)

• MU:Re9A.Ka

  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)

Connecting 2

• MU:Cn10A.Ka

  Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29)

• MU:Cn11A.Ka

  Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Merrily We Roll Along (PK, Wk 18); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17)