Course Title: Music, Nursery

Strand Content/Skills


Vignette
Literacy/Perception *Recognize music that is slow and fast.
*Recognize loud and soft.
*Identify quarter notes and quarter note rests.
*Tell a story with a song or movement.
*Identify happy and sad (major and minor) songs.
*Recognize percussion instruments.
*Discover different ways of using our voice. (sing, talk,
whisper, shout)

Performance/Creativity *Communicates sensations and feelings produced by
songs and music.
*Use body movements as a form of expression in
different situations accompanied by songs.
*Dances to express through music and following the
beat.
*Sing in pitch following the teacher.
*Play percussion instruments with the beat.

Response *Students can identify high and low sounds.
* Read rhythms using quarter note and quarter rests.
* Sing by themselves copying the teacher.

Connections *Read books and stories that have songs to mix
literature with music.
*Use music as a tool for reinforcing vocabulary in
english such as colors, days of the week, body parts,
numbers, feelings, etc.
*Use music and movement to develop early literacy and
language skills.
*Use music to improve motor skills and coordination.
*Listen the sound of an instrument and
respond with a different movement for each
one.
*Learn song for holidays, for saying hello and
goodbye.
*Use scarves to keep the beat with music and
to use the imagination while singing.
*Control movement by dancing and then freeze
when the music stops.
*Singing in different speeds and volumes.
*Singing in pitch to different melodies.
*Identify the sound of the percussion
instruments.



Course Title: Music, Pre-Kinder
Strand Content Vignette
Literacy/Perception *Identify high and low sounds.
* Recognize by ear and sight classroom instruments.
* Recognize music that is slow and fast.
*Recognize loud and soft.
*Identify quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes.
*Tell a story with a song or movement.
*Identify happy and sad (major and minor) songs.
*Recognize percussion instruments.
*Discover different ways of using our voice. (sing, talk,
whisper, shout)
*Learn the seven music notes and sing them (do, re, mi,
fa, so, la, ti)
Performance/Creativity *Incorporates creative dance movements to express
diverse notions of spatial relations (in, out, close, far, in
front, behind, up, down, in a circle, straight, diagonal,
zigzag, spiral, spinning)
*Sing in pitch following the teacher.
*Identify and play percussion instruments in the
classroom.
*Use body percussion to read rhythm using quarter note,
quarter rest and eighth notes.
* Creates, acts, out stories, songs, rhythms and finger
plays.
*Create our own instruments.
Response *React with body movement to the speed of the music.
*Students can identify high and low sounds.
* Read rhythms using quarter note, quarter rests and
eighth notes.
* Sing by themselves copying the teacher.
* Students can name the percussion instruments in the
*Identify high and low sounds. Jump to green
line on the floor if its high and yellow if its
low.
* Sound bingo. Identify the sound and find the
image related to that.
*React with body movement to the speed of
the music.
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Response *React with body movement to the speed of the music.
*Students can identify high and low sounds.
* Read rhythms using quarter note, quarter rests and
eighth notes.
* Sing by themselves copying the teacher.
* Students can name the percussion instruments in the
classroom.

Connections *Read books and stories that have songs to combine
literature with music.
*Use music as a tool for reinforcing vocabulary in english
such as colors, days of the week, body parts, numbers,
feelings, etc.
*Use music and movement to develop early literacy and
language skills.
*Use music to improve motor skills and coordination.
* Use rhythm with word syllables and associate the
amount of syllables with beats.