Date NM State Standards I. Content Standard 1: Learn and develop the essential skills and technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual art. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 1A: Sing and play instruments with appropriate techniques while maintaining a steady beat. 1. Develop appropriate singing techniques and range. (E-B) 2. Develop appropriate instrument playing techniques. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 1B: Identify timbre (tone quality) of various families of instruments. 1. Make music using body percussion and simple rhythm band instruments. C. K-4 BENCHMARK 1C: Acquire beat and rhythmic competency skills. 1. Demonstrate a steady beat through movement, instruments, and speech pieces. D. K-4 BENCHMARK 1D: Identify basic musical notation and symbols. 1. Use iconic notation to identify steady beat and/or melodic direction. Core Knowledge Connections 1A: Frere Jacques melodic direction; play rhythms on non-tuned percussion instruments 1B: Glissandos, Solfege, Orff instruments 1C: Skip to My Lou line dance, partner dance 1D: Orff Instruments; Mr. Everybody s Apartment Silver Burdett Music 1A: Unit 2 Lesson 7 High Sounds or Low Sounds Unit 2 Lesson 9 Sailing High and Low Unit 2 Lesson 10 Preparing so-mi Unit 3 Lessons 9-10 More Practice with so and mi Unit 6 Lesson 8 Reviewing so, mi and la Unit 6 Lesson 9 Look Out Below, Here Comes do 1B: Unit 2 Lesson 12 Clap, Tap and Pat Unit 4 Lesson 4 Unit 4 Lesson 12 Playing Borduns Unit 6 Lesson 3 1C: Unit 1 Lesson 2 Steady Beat Unit1 Lesson 3 Keep it Steady Unit 4 Lesson 2 Cat at Rest Unit 5 Lesson 3 Strong 1D: Unit 1 Lesson 4 Birthday Rhythms Unit 1 Lesson 9 Phoebe Goes Up and Down Unit 2 Lesson 3 Beat or Rhythm? Music 7/22/2009 Page #1
II. III. Content Standard 2: Use dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts to express ideas. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 2A: Understand how music expresses ideas. 1. Use descriptive vocabulary when responding to musical examples. Content Standard 3: Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 3A: Identify terms common to the various art forms. 1. Explore the relationship between music elements and basic elements of other arts disciplines. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 3B: Develop musical accompaniments related to other art forms or content areas. 1. Use body percussion or rhythm instruments to accompany a song or speech piece. C. K-4 BENCHMARK 3C: Identify how music can support and enhance other disciplines. 1. Make simple connections between music and other content areas. 2A; Make New Friends sing in rounds; Opera Unlimited 3A: Dry Bones Science Take Me out to the Ballgame ; paintings found in text 3B: La Cucaracha folklorico dancing 3C: There s a Hole in the Bucket storytelling/sequencing Unit 3 Lesson 4 Soccer Sounds and Silences Unit 3 Lesson 5 Preparing Quarter Rests Unit 5 Lesson 8 Melodies Move Upward and Downward Unit 5 Lesson 9 More so, mi and la 2A: Unit 3 Lesson 2 Planting Long and Short Sounds Unit 3 Lesson 11 Thump, Rattle and Scrape Unit 5 Lesson 7 Practice so, mi and la 3A: Unit 1 Lesson 12 Thin or Thick? Unit 4 Lesson 8 Tones Move by Steps and Skips Unit 5 Lesson 12 Accompanying a Story Unit 6 Lesson 4 Rug Bug Rhythms 3B: Unit 2 Lesson 2 Long Sounds or Short Sounds Unit 3 Lesson 12 Rhythmic Ostinato Unit 5 Lesson 12 Woof! Woof! A Pattern 3C: Unit 1 Lesson 8 Leaves Dance Up and Down Unit 2 Lesson 8 More High and Low Bahamas Unit 3 Lesson 8 Music 7/22/2009 Page #2
IV. Content Standard 4: Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 4A: Understand why music is created and how it is used. 1. Develop an awareness of where music is found in the daily environment. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 4B: Understand how music is created. 1. Demonstrate call and response, create simple rhythmic and melodic ostinati, and create simple melodies for everyday tasks. 2. Improvise a rhythmic or melodic response to a musical question. V. Content Standard 5: Observe, discuss, analyze, and make critical judgments about artistic works. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 5A: Identify simple music forms when presented aurally. 1. K-1 1. Identify repeated patterns in music. 4A: Mozart Eine Kleine Nachmusik Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf 4B: Jazz Louis Armstrong; When the Saints Go Marching In; Michael, Row the Boat Ashore 5A: Billy Boy For He s a Jolly Good Fellow Meet so and mi Unit 5 Lesson 5 Introduction and Coda Unit 6 Lesson 11 Xylophones or Xylobones? 4A: Unit 2 Lesson 4 Rainy Day Rhythm 4B: Unit 1 Lesson 5 Same Phrases: Echoes Unit 1 Lesson 6 Same Phrases: Call and Response Unit 2 Lesson 5 Answer the Call Unit 3 Lesson 3 Unit 4 Lesson 9 Preparing la Unit 4 Lesson 10 Bounce to a New Note Unit 6 Lesson 6 Same, Different, Same 5A: Unit 1 Lesson 10 Same or Different Melodic Patterns Unit 2 Lesson 6 Different Phrases Unit 3 Lesson 6 Same or Different? Unit 4 Lesson 5 Verse and Refrain Unit 4 Lesson 6 Verse And Refrain (AB) Music 7/22/2009 Page #3
VI. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 5B: Identify the sounds of more familiar instruments as well as treble and bass voices. 1. Distinguish between, woods, metals, and drums. 2. Distinguish between a man s voice, a woman s voice, and a child s voice. 3. Distinguish between speaking, whispering, singing, and calling/shouting voice. C. K-4 BENCHMARK 5C: Use appropriate terminology to discuss responses and reactions to particular musical works. 1. Describe various pieces of music using terms such as fast, slow, high, low, loud, soft, and various mood descriptors. Content Standard 6: Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 6A: Identify and perform a varied repertoire from historical periods and diverse cultures with emphasis on the music and the cultures of NM. 1. Sing songs from different cultures and/or in different languages. 2. Perform songs and musical games from New Mexico cultures. 5B: She ll Be Comin Round the Mountain Oh, John the Rabbit 5C: Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be? Oh! Susannah 6A: Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel On Top of Old Smokey Unit 4 Lesson 7 Two Different Sections 5B: Unit 1 Lesson 11 My Voice Unit 4 Lesson 11 Instrument Sounds Unit 5 Lesson 11 Ding! Dong! Bong! 5C: Unit 1 Lesson1 On the Move with Loud and Soft Unit 1 Lesson 7 High and Low Unit 2 Lesson 1 Fast or Slow? Unit 3 Lesson1 Soft Pops, Loud Pops Unit 4 Lesson 1 Faster, Faster, Stop Unit 5 Lesson 1 Getting Louder/Getting Softer Unit 6 Lesson 2 Fast or Slow? Loud or Soft? 6A: Unit 3 Lesson 7 Call and Response Georgia Sea Islands Unit 5 Lesson 6 Dance in Two Parts Unit 6 Lesson 1 Legato or Staccato? VII. Content Standard 7: Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 7A: Understand how various instruments have 7A: Paul Dukas The Sorcerer s Apprentice 7A:Unit 2 Lesson 11 What Makes That Sound? Music 7/22/2009 Page #4
evolved. 1. Explore how instruments have developed and evolved from materials found in the environment. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 7B: Use appropriate music technology. 1. Explore and experience traditional and non-traditional instruments. VIII. Content Standard 8: Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions. A. K-4 BENCHMARK 8A: Model appropriate audience behavior at live concert performances. 1. Understand the role of the audience. B. K-4 BENCHMARK 8B: Participate in appropriate school programs. 1. Prepare and perform age-appropriate material at school and community-based programs. C. K-4 BENCHMARK 8C: Share and develop cultural experiences. 1. Celebrate customs, cultural traditions, and American holidays, using music at home and in other social situations. 7B: Orff Instruments; Alice in Vivaldi s Four Seasons computer game 8A: Opera Unlimited; USA Ballet; Missoula Children s Theater; Southwest Symphony Orchestra 8B: American Education Week Performances; Christmas Caroling/Sing Around 8C: Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite America the Beautiful Yankee Doodle 7B: Unit 4 Lesson 3 Practice Quarter Rest Unit 5 Lesson 4 Beats in Two 8A: The Power of Performance grade level musicals 8B: Music K-8; The Power of Performance 8C: Unit 12 Lessons 1-12 Holidays and Seasons Music 7/22/2009 Page #5