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Montana Kindergarten Music Standards
Every Kindergarten standard from the Montana Content Standards for Arts: Music (2016), grouped by strand, with the Prodigies PK-5 lessons that teach each one.
Kindergarten has 11 music standards in Montana: Creating (3); Performing/Presenting/Producing (3); Responding (3); Connecting (2).
Prodigies PK-5 has a lesson for 9 of 11 of them.
| Official name | Montana Content Standards for Arts: Music (2016) |
|---|---|
| Published by | Montana Office of Public Instruction |
| Adopted | 2016 |
| Grades on this page | Kindergarten |
| Standards on this page | 11 |
| Code format | MT.MU.K.1 |
| Organized by | Creating, Performing/Presenting/Producing, Responding, Connecting |
| Official source | opi.mt.gov |
The Kindergarten standards
Creating 3
MT.MU.K.1Explore and experience musical concepts.
MT.MU.K.2Demonstrate a musical idea.
MT.MU.K.3Identify changes in musical ideas.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 18); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Wheels on the Bus (2, Wk 32)
Performing/Presenting/Producing 3
MT.MU.K.4Identify expressive qualities in musical selections.
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)
MT.MU.K.5Rehearse to improve performances.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)
MT.MU.K.6Perform 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)
Responding 3
MT.MU.K.7Discuss preferences in musical selections.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Beet & Cherry (PK, Wk 25); Triad Part I (PK, Wk 29)
MT.MU.K.8Discuss expressive qualities of music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)
MT.MU.K.9Identify preferences in evaluating music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23)
Connecting 2
MT.MU.K.10Identify emotions when experiencing music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)
MT.MU.K.11Identify connections between music, arts, and daily life in a variety of contexts.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hi High C (K, Wk 11); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6)
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The Montana Kindergarten music standards checklist
Every standard on this page as a one-page-per-grade PDF with a box to tick, ready for your curriculum map, your evaluation binder, or the next time someone asks “how is this standards-aligned?”
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