Pre-Kindergarten Monthly Music Curriculum Katie Traxler, PS 51

Musical May June

Element
Hello Song of -Sing Hello- singing, playing UPP -Sing Hello- singing, playing UPP
the Month -You Are My Family- good-bye -You Are My Family- good-bye
-Ready for the Hall- line-up song -Ready for the Hall- line-up song
Songs/Rhymes -Ladybugs- singing, playing -1-2 Buckle My Shoe- solo
for Teaching instruments, improvisation singing, call and response,
Content and -Polly Put the Kettle On- singing instrument playing
Skills -I’m a Little Teapot- playing -Mosquito One- singing
instruments, singing, -Hickety Pickety My Black Hen-
sequencing, ABA form vocal exploration and musical
-Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar with opposites, instrument playing
The Very Hungry Caterpillar- -Cobbler, Cobbler Mend My Shoe-
singing, literacy connection, singing, AB form, playing
playing instruments instruments
-The Old Gray Cat is Sleeping- -Shoemaker’s Dance- AB form,
singing and dramatic play, movement, instrument playing
allegro and adagio -Allison’s Camel- singing,
-Three Little Kittens- singing backwards counting
-A Walk through the Forest- -Ring Around the Rosy- singing
listening and dramatic play game
-I’m Growing Up- singing -I Can Hammer- singing game
with movement

**Moving Up Ceremony
Rehearsal***
Movement -The Old Gray Cat is Sleeping- -Shoemaker’s Dance –create NLM
(Singing Games, responding to music of different to represent contrasting sections
Folk Dances, tempi with LM -Eurhythmics game- Stop and
Eurhythmics -A Walk through the Forest- Clap with simple rhythmic
Activities, dramatic play patterns
Movement -Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar- -I Can Hammer- isolating body
Exploration with explore crawling pathways parts
Body and Props, (straight, curvy)
Dramatic Play)



Listening -Spring from The 4 Seasons by -The City Sings a Song- identify
(Maps, Analysis Vivaldi- create a butterfly dance sounds from the story in a
through with ribbons or scarves, identify recording
Pre-Kindergarten Monthly Music Curriculum Katie Traxler, PS 51

Movement and musical elements
Instrument
Playing)
Instrument -Ladybugs- compare and -Shoemaker’s Dance- AB form,
Playing contrast three barred instrument playing on tempo
(Barred Orff instruments for rain sounds, add changes with woods and metals
Instruments, UPP sound effects for rain and -The Listening Walk- create a
Drums and sun soundscape with instruments
Unpitched -I’m a Little Teapot- create for the book
Percussion) sound effects with UPP -Cobbler, Cobbler Mend My Shoe-
-The Very Hungry Caterpillar- play SB on basses
create sound effects for story -1-2 Buckle My Shoe- play
numbers on metals and rhyme
on woods, creating larger form
with Cobbler
-Hickety Pickety My Black Hen-
play rhythm and SB on drums
Improvisation -Ladybugs- improvise rain songs
on various barred instruments

Literature -The Very Hungry Caterpillar- -The City Sings a Song-
Connection storybook storybook
-The Listening Walk- walking
trip project inspired by
storybook