Kindergarten Fine Arts SOL Standards

Musicianship and Ensemble Skills

Instrumental Technique

Instrumental Procedures

Scales

Music Literacy: Acquire the technical skills and artistic knowledge necessary for creative, expressive, and artistic performance. Demonstrate understanding of elements of music and ways they are used for artistic performance and creative expression

Technique and Application

Cultivate connections to other fine arts and fields of knowledge. Identify and cultivate connections between music and other fields of knowledge to develop problem-solving skills.

Understand and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies. Participate in a rapidly changing world of music and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies, media, and processes.

College, career, and the 21st Century Workplace. Connect music content and skills to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace.

Innovation in the Arts

Ethical and legal considerations for music and intellectual property. Identify and understand ethical and legal considerations for engaging with music, resources, and source material as a responsible citizen.

Understand music as a form of community engagement. Identify and interact with music and develop a lifelong engagement as a performer, supporter, advocate, and audience member.

Understand cultural and historical influences of music. Demonstrate understanding of cultural and historical influences of music.

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Develop collaboration and communication skills for music rehearsal and performance. Identify and apply collaboration and communication skills for rehearsal and performance of music.

Formulate and justify personal responses and connections to music. Recognize, justify, and articulate personal responses, beliefs, and opinions regarding music and recognize the value in learning about diverse opinions and responses to music.

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate music. Develop critical thinking skills in the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the work of self and others.

Critical Thinking and Communication

Understand and apply a creative process to develop ideas for creating and performing music. Understand and apply a creative process to guide the development of ideas and original work.

Apply creative thinking to composing and improvising music. Apply creative thinking by employing originality, flexibility, experimentation, individual voice, and imagination to improvise and compose music.

Creative Process

The student will create music as a means of individual expression.

Compose a four-measure rhythmic-melodic variation

Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic examples in call-and-response styles.

Play and write rhythmic variations of four-measure selections taken from existing melodies, exercises, or etudes.

The student will identify ways in which culture and technology influence the development of music and musical styles.

The student will identify the connections of instrumental music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.

The student will demonstrate music literacy.

Identify, define, and use basic standard and instrument specific notation for pitch, rhythm, meter, articulation, dynamics, and other elements of music.

Notate student-created compositions using standard notation.

Sing selected lines from music being studied.

Echo, read, count (using a counting system), and perform simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns, including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes, and corresponding rests.

Identify, read, and perform music in simple meters ( 2 4 , 3 4 , 4 4 , C).

Define and apply music terminology found in the music literature being studied.

Read and interpret standard music notation while performing music of varying styles and levels of difficulty.

Sight-read music of varying styles.

The student will identify and demonstrate half-step and whole-step patterns in order to read, notate, and perform scales and key signatures.

Wind/percussion student—one-octave concert F and B-flat major scales.

Orchestral string student—one-octave D and G major scales.

The student will demonstrate preparatory instrumental basics and playing procedures.

Identify and select an appropriate instrument.

Identify parts of the instrument.

Identify procedures for care of the instrument.

Identify proper playing posture and instrument position.

Understand procedures for basic tuning of the instrument with a visual aid or electronic tuner.

The student will demonstrate proper instrumental techniques.

Identify correct hand positions, finger/slide placement, fingerings/positions, and finger/slide patterns.

Produce tones that are clear, free of tension, and sustained.

Wind student—proper breathing techniques and embouchure; contrasting articulations (tonguing, slurring, staccato, accent).

Orchestral string student—bow hold, straight bow stroke; contrasting articulations (pizzicato, legato, staccato, two-note slurs).

Percussion student—stick control, appropriate grip, and performance of beginning roll, diddle, and flam rudiments, and multiple bounce roll.

The student will demonstrate musicianship and ensemble skills at a beginning level.

Identify the characteristic sound of the instrument being studied.

Playing unisons.

Differentiate between unisons that are too high or low in order to match pitches.

Make adjustments to facilitate correct intonation.

Balance instrumental timbres.

Match dynamic levels and playing style.

Maintain a steady beat at various tempos in the music literature being studied.

Respond to conducting patterns and gestures.

Begin to use articulations and dynamic contrasts as a means of expression.

The student will apply a creative process for music.

Identify and apply steps of a creative process.

Collaboratively identify and examine inquiry-based questions related to music.

Monitor individual practice and progress toward goals.

The student will analyze, interpret, and evaluate music.

Describe diverse works of music using inquiry skills and music terminology.

Identify accepted criteria used for evaluating works of music.

Describe performances of music using music terminology.

The student will formulate and justify personal responses to music.

Identify reasons for preferences among works of music using music terminology.

) Identify ways in which music evokes sensory, emotional, and intellectual responses, including ways in which music can be persuasive.

The student will identify and demonstrate collaboration and communication skills for music.

Participate in school performances and community events as appropriate to level, ability, and interest.

Describe and demonstrate rehearsal and concert etiquette as a performer (e.g., using critical aural skills, following conducting gestures, maintaining attention in rest position).

Describe and demonstrate active listening in rehearsal and as an audience member.

The student will explore historical and cultural influences of music.

Identify the cultural influences, musical styles, composers, and historical periods associated with the music literature through listening, performing, and studying.

Identify ways in which culture influences the development of instruments, instrumental music, and instrumental music styles.

The student will explore the functions of music, including the use of music as a form of expression, communication, ceremony, and entertainment.

The student will identify intellectual property as it relates to music.

The student will identify career options in music.

Music and Movement

Meter

Rhythm

Instrumental Performance

Vocal Performance

Music Literacy Acquire the technical skills and artistic knowledge necessary for creative, expressive, and artistic performance. Demonstrate understanding of elements of music and ways they are used for artistic performance and creative expression

Technique and Application

Cultivate connections to other fine arts and fields of knowledge. Identify and cultivate connections between music and other fields of knowledge to develop problem-solving skills.

Understand and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies. Participate in a rapidly changing world of music and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies, media, and processes.

College, career, and the 21st Century Workplace. Connect music content and skills to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace.

Innovation in the Arts

Ethical and legal considerations for music and intellectual property Identify and understand ethical and legal considerations for engaging with music, resources, and source material as a responsible citizen.

Understand music as a form of community engagement. Identify and interact with music and develop a lifelong engagement as a performer, supporter, advocate, and audience member.

Understand cultural and historical influences of music. Demonstrate understanding of cultural and historical influences of music.

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Develop collaboration and communication skills for music rehearsal and performance. Identify and apply collaboration and communication skills for rehearsal and performance of music.

Formulate and justify personal responses and connections to music. Recognize, justify, and articulate personal responses, beliefs, and opinions regarding music and recognize the value in learning about diverse opinions and responses to music.

Recognize basic contrasts in music, including fast/slow, high/low, loud/soft, and same/different.

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate music. Develop critical thinking skills in the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the work of self and others.

Critical Thinking and Communication

Understand and apply a creative process to develop ideas for creating and performing music. Understand and apply a creative process to guide the development of ideas and original work.

Apply creative thinking to composing and improvising music. Apply creative thinking by employing originality, flexibility, experimentation, individual voice, and imagination to improvise and compose music.

Creative Process

The student will improvise and compose music.

Improvise simple movement.

Improvise melodic or rhythmic patterns.

Improvise using instruments, voice, and music to enhance stories and poems.

The student will identify technology tools for creating music.

The student will recognize relationships between music and other fields of knowledge.

The student will explore music literacy, including high and low pitches and rhythms represented by a variety of notational systems.

The student will develop skills for individual and ensemble singing performance.

Sing songs using echo and ensemble singing.

Sing at the appropriate time following a musical introduction.

Match pitches within an appropriate range.

Demonstrate expressive qualities of music, including loud/soft and fast/slow.

The student will develop skills for individual and ensemble instrumental performance.

Demonstrate high and low.

Demonstrate loud/soft and fast/slow.

Accompany songs and chants using body percussion as well as instruments.

The student will identify and perform rhythmic patterns.

Include patterns that suggest duple and triple meter.

Use instruments, body percussion, and voice.

Include sounds and silence.

The student will demonstrate a steady beat using movement, body percussion, instruments, and voice.

The student will respond to music with movement.

Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Demonstrate expressive qualities of music, including loud/soft and fast/slow.

Illustrate moods and contrast in music and children’s literature.

Perform dances and other music activities.

The student will apply a creative process for music.

Ask questions about music.

Identify ways to create music.

Share ideas with a group.

The student will analyze music.

Identify selected instruments visually and aurally.

Classify sound sources as vocal, instrumental, or environmental.

The student will express personal feelings evoked by a musical experience.

The student will identify how people work as a team while participating in music experiences.

The student will explore historical and cultural aspects of music.

Listen to and recognize patriotic songs.

Respond to music from a variety of time periods and places.

The student will identify how music is part of personal and community events.

The student will identify the value of creating personal music.

The student will identify people who create music (e.g., singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors).

Technique and Application

Innovation in the Arts

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Critical Thinking and Communication

Creative Process

The student will improvise characters from stories.

The student will recognize ways that technology is used in theatre.

The student will recognize connections between dance, music, and visual arts in theatre experiences.

The student will recognize and explore how movement and voice express feelings and emotions.

The student will recognize the use of body, voice, and imagination to communicate stories.

The student will recognize theatre as dramatized storytelling.

The student will identify the performers and audience in theatre activities.

The student will recognize safety procedures in theatre spaces.

The student will ask questions about theatre arts.

The student will describe theatre performances using theatre vocabulary.

The student will describe personal connections to and interests in theatre.

The student will recognize that theatre consists of individuals working together to reach a common goal.

The student will respond to theatrical works from a variety of time periods, places, and people.

The student will identify a variety of reasons why people create theatrical works.

The student will identify information about theatre from provided resources.

The student will recognize theatre as an art form and profession.

Creative Process

Critical Thinking and Communication

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Innovation in the Arts

The student will apply creative thinking to artmaking

Draw from imagination

Create works of art that represent personal responses to art-making challenges.

The student will identify works of art created with contemporary media.

The student will recognize connections between the arts, incorporating or responding to music, theatre, or dance in their artwork.

The student will identify and use the following in works of art:

Color—red, blue, yellow, green, orange, violet, brown, black, white.

Line—straight/curved, thick/thin, long/short, up/down/across.

Shape—circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval.

Texture—visual, tactile

Pattern—occurring naturally, made by people.

The student will identify spatial relationships for composition.

Identify spatial relationships—left, right, top, bottom, side, center, front, back, over, and under.

Make observations of objects in space.

The student will create drawings from observation.

The student will use motor skills to create two dimensional and three dimensional works of art (e.g., pinching, pulling, squeezing, twisting, pounding, rolling, folding, cutting, modeling, stamping)

The student will explore a variety of media, techniques, and processes to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork.

The student will create artworks inspired by a variety of sources and subjects

Depict the human figure

Use nature as inspiration.

The student will apply a creative process for artmaking

Ask questions about art and artmaking.

Generate multiple ideas for an art challenge.

Share ideas with a group

The student will analyze and interpret artwork using art vocabulary.

Describe works of art.

Describe objects in the environment by their visual qualities (e.g., location, size, color, texture, line, shape, pattern).

Describe ideas, experiences, and feelings expressed in personal and other works of art.

The student will describe personal connections to and interests in visual art.

The student will describe how artists work together in a creative community.

The student will explore cultural and historical influences of art.

Describe the concept that people in all cultures create works of art.

Respond to art from a variety of time periods and places

The student will identify a variety of purposes for creating works of art including art to commemorate personal and community events.

The student will identify information about art from provided resources.

The student will identify people, including oneself, who make art as artists.

Technique and Application