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Number: MU.K.S.3

Title: Through purposeful practice, artists learn to manage, master, and refine simple, then complex, skills and techniques.

Type: Enduring Understanding

Subject: Music

Grade: K

Big Idea: Skills, Techniques, and Processes

This cluster includes the following benchmarks

Code	Description
MU.K.S.3.1:	Sing songs of limited range appropriate to the young child and use the head voice.
MU.K.S.3.2:	Perform simple songs and accompaniments.
MU.K.S.3.3:	Match pitches in a song or musical phrase in one or more keys.
MU.K.S.3.4:	Imitate simple rhythm patterns played by the teacher or a peer.

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
MU.K.S.3.In.a:	Sing or play songs from a model.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
MU.K.S.3.Su.a:	Explore familiar songs.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
MU.K.S.3.Pa.a:	Attend to familiar songs.

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.

Name	Description
Rules and Rhythm in the Music Room:	This is an introductory lesson to review or introduce the classroom rules with the students while making it more exciting by turning the rules into a chant. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to perform a rhythmic chant with a beat they can march to around the classroom, that contains all of their classroom rules, and they will be able to understand the importance of the rules in this integrated lesson plan.
See, Hear, and Play Instruments:	This lesson provides endless ways to introduce instruments to the students along with their similarities/differences. The focus could be on just classroom instruments for the playing activities, but the discussions can include any possible instrument.
It's Time to Play the Barred Instruments: An Introduction for Kindergarten:	Kindergarten students will discover how to perform with proper instrument technique on the classroom barred melodic percussion instruments.
Can You Play a Steady Beat?:	In this lesson students will accompany the song Che Che Koolay by performing a steady beat on a drum and participating in movement.

Standard 3 : Through purposeful practice, artists learn to manage, master, and refine simple, then complex, skills and techniques.