Music+Level+K-1+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1** Students will demonstrate how to play and construct pitched/non-pitched instruments. ==
 * 1) Use mallets to strike bars of xylophone with correct hand position (All Orff Instruments)
 * 2) Hit a pitched colored tube on the floor or body to produce sound (Boomwhackers)
 * 3) Construct an instrument using materials provided
 * 4) Perform on non-pitched classroom instruments (drums, triangle, rhythm sticks, cymbals, jingle bells, tambourine, woodblock, guiro, sand blocks, maracas)

== **EL 2** Students will echo teacher responses and rhythms. ==
 * 1) Echo teacher patterns/rhythms
 * 2) Demonstrate teacher rhythms using body percussion and instruments
 * 3) Read, identify, and perform basic rhythm patterns
 * 4) Perform independently
 * 5) Demonstrate steady beat and the difference between beat and rhythm
 * 6) Invent symbols to represent beat

== **EL 3** Students will sing and recognize songs alone and with others. ==
 * 1) Practice singing songs for Concerts/Musicals
 * 2) Reflect on the performance of others
 * 3) Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
 * 4) Identify/Demonstrate Solfegge (Do-Re-Mi) singing and hand symbols
 * 5) Echo someone singing a name or phrase pattern
 * 6) Sing a variety of simple songs and singing games
 * 7) Demonstrate singing, speaking, whispering, and shouting with voices
 * 8) Identify male and female voices
 * 9) Respond to cues of a conductor for stopping and starting
 * 10) Create instrumental and vocal sounds to accompany rhymes and music

== **EL 4** Students will create and respond to music through movement. ==
 * 1) Listen and move to music
 * 2) Create movements to music that reflect focused listening
 * 3) Demonstrate awareness of beat, tempo, dynamics, and mood through music
 * 4) Improvise sound effects through a variety of experiences
 * 5) Perform dance movements to a variety of cultural music
 * 6) Find and perform the steady beat to music
 * 7) Demonstrate loud, soft, fast, and slow using movement, voice, and instruments

== **EL 5** Students will identify, discuss, and respond to music written for specific purposes. == > == **EL 6** Students will aurally identify simple components of musical form. ==
 * 1) Create/Design drawings to music of famous composers
 * 2) Create/Design drawings to a variety of music
 * 3) Listen to songs written by many Composers
 * 4) Listen to songs with different musical styles
 * 5) Use body movement to interpret musical phrases
 * 6) Identify music as an integral part of everyday life through marches, lullabies, celebrations, cartoons, computer games, and home events
 * 7) Describe musical preferences in their own words
 * 1) Identify introduction, phrase, AB form, staff, and repeat sign