Tennessee Kindergarten Music Standards

The Kindergarten standards

• K.GM.Cr1.A

  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); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13)

• K.GM.Cr2.A

  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); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

• K.GM.Cr2.B

  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); C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); Melodies, Lines and Spaces (1, Wk 4)

• K.GM.Cr3.A

  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); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)

• K.GM.Cr3.B

  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); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4)

• K.GM.P1.A

  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); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13)

• K.GM.P1.B

  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); Twinkle Twinkle (PK, Wk 28); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11)

• K.GM.P1.C

  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); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); C & D (K, Wk 31)

• K.GM.P2.A

  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); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• K.GM.P2.B

  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); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); C & D (K, Wk 31)

• K.GM.P3.A

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

• K.GM.P3.B

  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); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

• K.GM.P3.C

  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); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36)

• K.GM.P3.D

  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); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36)

• K.GM.R1.A

  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); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22)

• K.GM.R2.A

  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); Skips (2, Wk 8); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

• K.GM.R3.A

  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); Beet & Cherry (PK, Wk 25); Triad Part I (PK, Wk 29)

• K.GM.Cn1.A

  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); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2)

• K.GM.Cn2.A

  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); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 19); C Major & G Major (K, Wk 26)