Kindergarten Music Units

Discover Kindergarten Music unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build rhythm, singing skills, listening, and joyful musical exploration.

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Kindergarten Music Units

Unit Plan 23 (Grade K Music): Music Around the World

Kindergarten music unit exploring world cultures through listening, movement, stories, and celebrations, connecting global music to daily life and respect.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade K Music): Music in Daily Life

Kindergarten music unit connecting songs to routines, play, and celebrations at home, school, and community through listening, movement, and sharing.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade K Music): Music & Movement Stories

Kindergarten music unit where students respond to music through movement and simple storytelling, noticing tempo and dynamics changes and creating beginning–middle–end “music stories” that show ideas and feelings.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade K Music): Music Choices

Kindergarten music unit on sharing song preferences, matching music to classroom activities, and explaining choices using simple music words.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade K Music): Listening for Music Details

Kindergarten music unit on listening for instruments, voices, details, and sharing favorites, music choices for class activities.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade K Music): Performing with Confidence

Kindergarten music unit on mini-concerts, performer focus, expressive singing, and respectful audience behavior through simple classroom performances.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade K Music): Musical Turn-Taking

Kindergarten music turn-taking: practice start/stop cues, ready position, waiting quietly, and using feedback to improve timing and rehearsal habits.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K Music): Fast & Slow

Explore tempo in kindergarten music: students move, clap, and play instruments to show fast vs. slow, match steady beat, and use tempo vocabulary.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K Music): Music & Feelings

Kindergarten music unit on identifying emotions in music, connecting beat and tempo to feelings through listening, movement, and classroom routines.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K Music): Singing with Expression

Kindergarten music unit on expressive singing using dynamics and tempo to match moods, with feedback, echo songs, and mini performances.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Music): Creating Rhythms

Kindergarten music unit where students create short clap/tap rhythms, explore rests and steady beat, and organize patterns using simple icons or recordings.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Music): Rhythm Echoes

Kindergarten music unit where students echo rhythm patterns with voice and instruments, keep steady beat, and organize rhythms with simple icons.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K Music): Instrument Sounds

Kindergarten music unit where students describe instrument sounds, compare timbre, and share personal preferences through guided listening activities.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade K Music): Classroom Instruments

Kindergarten music unit exploring percussion instruments, steady beat, loud/soft contrasts, and safe handling through echo patterns and guided play-alongs.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K Music): Sharing Music

Kindergarten music performance unit building confidence through peer sharing, expressive singing and movement, and respectful audience routines (listening, start/stop cues, and clapping) aligned to MU:Pr6.1.Ka–Kb.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K Music): Sound Exploration

Kindergarten music unit where students explore instruments and found sounds, create simple sound patterns, and organize musical ideas with icons and pictures.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K Music): Music & Movement

Kindergarten music unit where students move fast and slow to tempo changes, clap a steady beat, and use movement to show how music speed affects how we move.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade K Music): Beat in Songs

Kindergarten music unit where students sing familiar songs while keeping a steady beat, use feedback to improve timing, and share favorite songs for beat practice.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade K Music): Finding the Steady Beat

Kindergarten music unit where students move, clap, and play instruments to keep a steady beat, distinguish beat from random sounds, and build listening-and-movement routines using favorite songs and simple “music heartbeat” cues.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade K Music): Loud & Soft Sounds

Kindergarten music unit on dynamics where students safely identify and demonstrate loud/soft sounds using voice, instruments, and movement, while listening for expressive changes and applying simple loud/soft plans in class songs.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade K Music): High & Low Voices

Kindergarten music unit using voice and movement to explore high and low pitch, melodic contour, and simple up/down patterns.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade K Music): Singing vs. Speaking Voices

Kindergarten music unit exploring singing, speaking, whispering, and calling voices while practicing high/low and loud/soft contrasts safely.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade K Music): Music Routines & Listening