What We Learn in Kindergarten
What We Learn in Kindergarten
Through the Kindergarten year, we focus on seven large musical concepts:
We play singing games and learn to track beats and pitches kinesthetically and visually, which helps students’ musical literacy. The guiding principle for music literacy is “sound before sight”:
Students are asked to experience a music concept, understanding it both physically and aurally, before introducing terminology and reading/writing music.
At the beginning of the year, most lessons are centered around a dramatic narrative in order to align with children’s innate sense of play and to engage their imaginations as we flow from one activity to the next.
We learn about instrumentation and music and storytelling through Tchaikovsky’s Peter and the Wolf and a brief introduction to Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals.
- Loud/soft (dynamics)
- Fast/slow (tempo)
- High/low (pitch)
- Short/long (rhythm)
- Singing
- Steady beat
- Phrases (form)
- egg shakers
- rhythm sticks
- tone bells
- xylophones
We play singing games and learn to track beats and pitches kinesthetically and visually, which helps students’ musical literacy. The guiding principle for music literacy is “sound before sight”:
Students are asked to experience a music concept, understanding it both physically and aurally, before introducing terminology and reading/writing music.
At the beginning of the year, most lessons are centered around a dramatic narrative in order to align with children’s innate sense of play and to engage their imaginations as we flow from one activity to the next.
We learn about instrumentation and music and storytelling through Tchaikovsky’s Peter and the Wolf and a brief introduction to Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals.