Music Core Standards to provide students opportunities to achieve musical proficiency in Four Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, and
Connecting.
Below are suggested activities that are related to Music Core Standards - Performing and Responding (Creating is coming). Please note this is NOT a curriculum. Feel free to modify the materials to meet your needs.
GRADE 1
*Depth of Knowledge
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.
Pr4.1: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- Gr1: *Demonstrate and discuss personal interest in varied musical selections.
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e.g., Classical era, American folk & pop, Hawaiian songs and music
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e.g., Classical era, American folk & pop, Hawaiian songs and music
Pr4.2: A. Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
- Gr1: *Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts from a variety of cultures.
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- Rhythm: Mrs. Faragaran's rhythm activity; Korean Drumming;
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Quarter and Eighth note/Ta, titi: Zhao Peng You (Chinese); Jamjari Kkongkkong (Korean); Johnny works with one hammer
- Quarter Rest:
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Prepare: Strawberry Shortcake; Label: Bow Wow Wow; Practice: Kaeru No
Utaga/Sushi Roll
- Rock Paper Scissors; ; Kagome (Japanese);
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Prepare: Strawberry Shortcake; Label: Bow Wow Wow; Practice: Kaeru No
Utaga/Sushi Roll
- 2/4 meter, repeat sign
- Home Tone, Solfege-do
Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
- Gr1: *Demonstrate and describe music's expressive qualities.
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- Loud and soft: Popcorn
- Instrument families by sight (woodwind, brass, percussion, strings)
Pr5.1: Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- Gr1: With limited guidance, *apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.
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- Call and Response: Doggie Doggie, Pole Pole; Prepare: Roll Over
Pr6.1: Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
- Gr1: *Perform music for a specific purpose with expression.
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Body Percussion: Rock Paper Scissors;
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Body Percussion: Rock Paper Scissors;
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Responding.
Re7.1: Enduring Understanding: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
- Gr1: Identify/relate, with limited guidance, the influence of personal interests and experiences on musical listening preferences.
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- Hush Little Baby
- Stickman
Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
- Gr1: Identify dynamics and tempo that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent in a selected musical work.
Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established.
- Gr1: With limited guidance, share/relate personal and expressive preferences for specific purposes.