Early Childhood Standards of Quality for ... - State of Michigan

ELE: Creative Development2. Early Learning Expectation: Children show how they feel,what they think, and what they are learning through listening,participating in, and creating instrumental and vocal musicexperiences. [HSCOF-CD 5.1.1, 5.1.2]Children typically:1. Participate in musical activities; e.g., listening, singing, finger plays,singing games, and simple performances with others.2. Begin to understand that music comes in a variety of musical styles.3. Begin to understand and demonstrate the components of music; e.g.,tone, pitch, beat, rhythm, melody.4. Become more familiar with and experiment with a variety of musicalinstruments.Examples of Experiences and Strategies• Children have opportunities to respond to the beat of songs orinstrumental music with more complex movements; e.g., walking orjumping to the beat, clapping.• Children have daily opportunities to experience music alone and/or withothers and opportunities to make choices about the music they like.• Children have experiences that allow discussion of their reactions/feelingsto diverse musical genres and/or styles.• Children are encouraged to develop a sense of balance and bodycoordination or concepts (e.g., feelings, directions, words, ideas) withmusic and props to create special movements and dances; e.g., scarves,streamers, instruments.• Classroom experiences use music and movement to interpret or imitatefeelings, animals, and such things as plants growing, or a rainstorm.• Adults plan indoor and outdoor activities involving music and instrumentsor use the sights and sounds of the environment as natural learning orcalming experiences.• Adults model what children can do with instruments; e.g., echoing withinstruments, creating different levels of sound by striking different places.• Adults use appropriate musical terminology (e.g., the correct names ofinstruments, terms such as rhythm and melody) as well as descriptivelanguage as they talk through music experiences.• Adults provide a range of music from different cultures and genres fordance and movement activities (e.g., classical, jazz, rock, salsa, reggae,rap) and model different dance movements (e.g., twist, bend, leap, slide)that may go with the music.88 Michigan Department of Education