Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
-Zoltan Kodály
-Zoltan Kodály
Kindergarten is in Year 1 of First Steps in Music by John Feierabend. Each class, the students follow 8 music workout activities. Those activities include:
The goal of First Steps in Music is to prepare children to be tuneful, beatful, and artful.
- Pitch Exploaration - Explore the wonders of the voice with fun activities
- Fragment Singing - Echo Songs and Call & Response Songs
- Simple Songs - Short song (these songs are used to assess pitch matching)
- Arioso - Child created tunes
- Movement Exploration - Develop motor skills based on the Laban themes
- Movement for Form and Expression - Circle Games, Fingerplays and Action Songs
- Beat Motion - Songs that are used to help with keeping a steady beat
- Songtales - Stories that are told through song (we call it "storytime")
The goal of First Steps in Music is to prepare children to be tuneful, beatful, and artful.
- Tuneful – to have tunes in their heads and learn to coordinate their voices to sing those tunes.
- Beatful – to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either 2s or 3s.
- Artful – to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit a feelingful response.