| Kindergarten Music Benchmarks |
| Benchmark 1: Students, either alone or with others, will sing a varied repertoir of music. |
| Benchmark 2: Students, either alone or with others, will play on instruments a varied repertoire of music. |
| Benchmark 3: Students will read and notate music. |
| Benchmark 4: Students will create music. |
| Benchmark 5: Students will listen to, respond to, analyze, evaluate and describe music. |
| Benchmark 6: Students will demonstrate an understanding of music in relation to history and a variety of cultures. |
| Participate in singing of rote and simple songs. Expand vocal range. Produce high and low sounds |
| Demonstrate awareness of steady beat using classroom instruments and body percussion. Play simple thythmic and melodic patterns. |
| Identify long and short sounds. Recognize repeated patterns in melody, rhythm and text. |
| Create new text to familiar songs. Create simple accompaniments using body percussion or classroom instruments. Select and add vocal and percussive sounds to songs, poems and stories. |
| Echo thythm patterns. Move expressively to music. Identify contrast in music: loud-soft, high-low, up-down. Distinguish between vocal and instruments timbre. Respond to steady beat in movement. Recognize sounds of classroom instruments. Use appropriate music vocabulary. |
| Participate in musical activities representative of a variety of cultures. Learn American patriotic songs. |