Instruction in the standards requires a focus not only on the learner concepts and competencies but the supportive practices employed by the adults in the classroom setting. 

Concepts and Competencies

The learner will:

• Initiate music and movement activities
• Improvise songs and rhythmic patterns
• Change words or tone of familiar songs to make new songs
• Use body to represent form in space, finger plays, or stories
• Use imagination and creativity to design and perform music and danc
• Work with partner or others to represent form in space

Supporting Practices

The adult will:

• Provide time, space and materials for exploration of music and movement
• Create opportunities to express through a variety of music forms, dance or body movements
• Encourage students to be creative during singing by changing words and song endings
• Use finger plays and stories that students can represent using their bodies
• Provide props to use when dancing (e.g. ribbons, hoops, and sticks)
• Demonstrate movement using time, space and locomotion
• Provide various objects that can be used to represent sound (e.g. wooden bowls, metal spoons)

 

This resource was created by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL). 

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Office of Child Development and Early Learning, OCDEL, Creative Arts and Expression