• We play instruments.

  • Xylophones

  • Glockenspiels

  • Boomwhackers

  • Hand drums

  • Keyboards

  • Auxillary percussion

  • Rhythm Sticks

• We sing songs from all different cultures around the world.

• We move in a purposeful way (Laban movement).

  • Heavy v. light

  • Fast v. Slow

  • Free v. Bound

• We use props to help move or tell the story of a song.

  • Scarves

  • Beanbags

  • Puppets

We connect music to other subjects

• Literacy/ELA:

  • We read stories in music that connect to songs. As we listen to songs, we determine which parts of the song match the story.

  • We clap out the syllables of different words and create songs and chants from them.

• Math

  • We learn note values in music and how they relate to measures, similar to a math equation.

• History/Social Studies

  • We learn the history of music in our country and others.

  • We listen to and learn the music of other cultures around the world.

• Language

  • We sing in different languages from all around the world.

• Science

  • We learn how music works and how different instruments can make certain sounds based on vibrations and frequencies.

  • We predict and experiment with different instruments and sounds.

  • We draw conclusions based on what we know about other instruments and apply them to new instruments (e.g., if it is a big instrument, it will make a lower sound, because the bigger the instrument, the lower the pitch).