Tennessee Elementary Music Standards

With guidance, explore and experience music concepts such as pitch, short rhythms, different vocal timbres, movement, musical contrasts, textures, sequence, and ways to define music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7)

With guidance, using ideas from songs, poems, or stories for performance, demonstrate, choose, and justify favorite musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Major Chords (2, Wk 18)

With guidance, using digital media or pictures to notate a short musical idea, 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)

With guidance, using teacher-given vocabulary, apply feedback to refine personal musical ideas.

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

With guidance, using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28)

With guidance, explore and experience music concepts such as pitch, rhythms, vocal timbres, movement, musical contrasts, textures, sequence, and ways to define music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7)

With guidance, using voices, instruments, or movement, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts in a variety of music selected for performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

With guidance, using voices, instruments, or movement, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, or tempo).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22)

With guidance, apply feedback to refine performances.

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

With guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music (such as voice quality, dynamics, or tempo).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22)

With guidance, sing, alone and with others, with expression.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Singing (2, Wk 21)

With guidance, using body percussion and/or instruments, perform, alone, and with others, with expression.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

Perform appropriately for the audience; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16)

With guidance, list personal interests and experiences explaining musical preference.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of music concepts (such as same/different sections of music, musical sounds, or simple musical characteristics in a listening selection).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hi High C (K, Wk 11); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

With guidance, apply personal preferences in the evaluation of music, and discuss a musical performance.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as expressing personal preferences in music or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as exploring the connection between poems and songs through rhyme).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Fabulous F (K, Wk 10)

With limited guidance, explore and improvise musical ideas such as pitch, short rhythms, different vocal or instrumental timbres, musical textures, or movement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17)

With limited guidance, using voices, body percussion, instruments, and movement, generate musical ideas (such as beat/rhythm patterns, melodies with limited pitches, movement, etc.) to accompany a song, poem, or story.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet & Blueberry (1, Wk 26)

With limited guidance, using short musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)

With limited guidance, using digital media or pictures to notate a short musical passage, organize personal musical ideas (such as limited pitches, sound/silence, high/low, long/short, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

With limited guidance, using vocabulary such as voices/instruments, beginning, middle, sequence, and ending, discuss and apply feedback to refine personal musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

With guidance, using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3)

With limited guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

With limited guidance, using voices, instruments, or movement, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

Demonstrate and describe music’s expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)

With limited guidance, apply feedback to refine performances.

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

With limited guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music (such as dynamics, voice quality, and tempo).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26)

With limited guidance, sing, alone and with others, with expression.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Singing (2, Wk 21)

With limited guidance, using body percussion or instruments, perform, alone and with others, with expression.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15)

Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

With limited guidance, identify and explain how personalinterests and experience influence musical selection.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm (2, Wk 22); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25)

With limited guidance, demonstrate music concepts (such as steady beat or singing voice) in various styles of music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21)

Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music; demonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (such as meter and timbre).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21)

With limited guidance, identify expressive qualities or other characteristics of music (such as same/different sections within a simple form, types of voices, or individual instruments and identifying how sound is produced).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major & G Major Chords (1, Wk 20); Do, Re, Mi Review (1, Wk 7)

With limited guidance, apply personal preferences in the evaluation of music; discuss a musical performance using grade-appropriate vocabulary.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as expressing personal preferences in music or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as exploring the relationship between songs and historical events).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17)

Use pentatonic melodies, short rhythms, movement, and vocal/instrumental timbres to improvise rhythmic/melodic patterns and movement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

Use body percussion, instruments, movement, singing, and/or vocal timbres to generate musical ideas (such as rhythm patterns, pentatonic melodies, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Guava Review (2, Wk 12)

Using short musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas (such as four beat rhythm/melodic patterns, introduction, coda, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)

Interpret and apply feedback, using vocabulary such as voices/instruments, same/different, introduction sequence, and coda, to revise personal music.

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

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

Demonstrate and explain personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections (such as performing songs and dances from various cultures and historical periods).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)

Using voices, instruments, or movement, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

Demonstrate understanding of music’s expressive qualities and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments using iconic or standard notation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm (2, Wk 22); Guava Review (2, Wk 12)

Apply established criteria to judge student rehearsal and/or performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

Rehearse, identify, and apply strategies to address performance challenges.

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

Sing, alone and with others, with expression and skill.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Singing (2, Wk 21); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29)

Using body percussion or instruments, perform, alone and with others, with expression and skill.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

Identify and explain how personal interests and experience influence musical selection; list and explain personal musical interests.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19)

Demonstrate knowledge of how expressive qualities and music concepts support a musical creation/performance (such as recognizing same/different sections, classroom and/or selected orchestral instruments, or how tempo and dynamics affect the mood of a piece).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29)

Apply personal preferences in the evaluation of music; discuss a musical performance using grade-appropriate music vocabulary.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); Parts of the Ukulele (5, Wk 3)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as expressing personal preferences in music or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as exploring the connections between art and music).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Recorder King/Queen 2 - Introduction to Transposing (4, Wk 24)

Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or a simple accompaniment/ostinato).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11)

Use parameters such as improvising/composing a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using limited note values to generate musical ideas.

Using musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26)

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas (such as grade-appropriate rhythm/melodic pattern, introduction, coda, interlude, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8)

Interpret and apply feedback, using vocabulary such as introduction, sequence, interlude, coda, and grade-appropriate musical characteristics, to revise personal music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23)

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4)

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and elements of music (such as rhythm or melodic direction) in music selected for performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C and Shh (PK, Wk 3); Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5)

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm (2, Wk 22); Guava Review (2, Wk 12)

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of solo/ensemble rehearsals/performances.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Sing, alone and with others, with expression and skill.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Using body percussion or instruments, perform instrumentally (pitched/unpitched), alone and with others, with expression and skill.

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

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16)

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes (such as how music listening is influenced by interests, experience, and context).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

Using movement, manipulatives, and/or pictorial representation, demonstrate and describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as different sections, selected orchestral, band, folk, or ethnic instruments).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Skips (2, Wk 8); Guava Review (2, Wk 12)

Demonstrate and describe how music concepts are used by performers to reflect intent (such as describing the mood of a piece of music using descriptive adjectives or demonstrating an understanding of how dynamics and tempo affect the mood of a piece through drawing, writing, or discussing).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part III (3, Wk 21); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22)

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria; discuss a music selection or performance using grade-appropriate music vocabulary and teacher-given criteria.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Key of G Major (3, Wk 34); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as identifying pieces of music that are important to one’s family or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as understanding the science of sound).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27)

Use pentatonic melodies in major/minor, simple accompaniments, introductions, codas, or question/answer phrases to improvise rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as social, cultural, historical, etc.).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: 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)

Use parameters such as improvising/composing a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using gradeappropriate note values in binary/ternary form to generate musical ideas within a given tonality, form, and/or rhythmic set.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Surf Chords (5, Wk 6); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Using musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas for arrangement, improvisation, or composition.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Use notation and/or recording technology to document personal musical ideas (such as grade-appropriate rhythm/melodic pattern, simple harmonies, introduction, coda, interlude, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2)

Interpret and apply collaboratively developed feedback to revise personal music over time, such as a created introduction, sequence, interlude, and/or coda.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3)

Demonstrate (through performance) and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation (including treble clef) with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19)

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of solo/ensemble rehearsals/performances.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

Sing, alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Using body percussion or instruments, perform instrumentally (pitched/unpitched), alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

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

Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts (such as how music listening is influenced by interests, etc.).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

Demonstrate and explain how specific music concepts (such as form, timbre, etc.) are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as social and cultural contexts) through various means (such as manipulatives, movement, and/or pictorial representation).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3)

Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music applied to a listening example using teacher-given vocabulary (such as different sections of complex forms, teacher-selected orchestral instruments, etc.).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Demonstrate and explain how music concepts are used by performers to reflect intent (such as comparing how tempo could be used in different arrangements to create a different mood).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Major Chords (2, Wk 17)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as identifying pieces of music that are important to one’s family or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as the connection between fractions and rhythm values).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8)

Use modal/scale based melodies in major/minor, simple/complex rhythms, and accompaniments to improvise rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as social, cultural, historical, etc.).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10)

Use parameters such as improvising/composing a 2-4 measure musical idea, a modal/scale-based melody, or an extended rhythm pattern using grade-appropriate note values in various forms to generate musical ideas within a given tonality, form, and/or rhythmic set.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Surf Chords (5, Wk 6); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Using musical ideas to be performed, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas for arrangement, improvisation, or composition.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Interpret and apply collaboratively developed feedback to revise personal music over time, such as the efficacy of a created introduction, sequence, or coda, use of form, two-part composition, or other characteristics of a created piece of music.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4)

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, movement, or two-part created pieces through performance.

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Types of Ukuleles (5, Wk 2)

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Three Cs Part II (5, Wk 12); Chord Theory Part I (5, Wk 30)

Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6)

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation in treble clef with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19)

Apply established criteria to judge student rehearsal and/or performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 4 - Dynamics (4, Wk 25); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges, showing improvement.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Sing, alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

Using body percussion or instruments, perform instrumentally (pitched/unpitched), alone and with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Perform appropriately for the audience and context; demonstrate appropriate posture, and evaluate performance etiquette.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, and evaluate student behavior during a performance.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16)

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22)

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social, cultural, and historical) through various means (such as manipulatives, movement, and/or pictorial representation).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music applied to a listening example using teacher-given vocabulary (such as different sections of complex forms, teacher-selected orchestral instruments, etc.).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

Demonstrate and explain how music concepts are used by performers to reflect intent (such as instrument selection by a composer/arranger).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Parts of the Ukulele (5, Wk 3)

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, citing evidence from the elements of music; with teacher guidance, create a rubric for evaluating music performances.

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Melodies with Row Your Boat (5, Wk 28); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as identifying pieces of music that are important to one’s family or how music is used in daily life).

Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as comparing how music is used in various cultures and performing it).

Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18); Chord Theory Part I (5, Wk 30)