How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Kindergarten
• Teach your child to sing familiar songs, such as nursery rhymes, play songs, folk songs. Sing to and with your child.
• Have your child maintain a steady beat by clapping, tapping, patting, or stepping while listening to music.
• Draw your child’s attention to a variety of environmental sounds such as airplanes, striking clocks, automobile horns, birds whistling, pets’ sounds.
• Have your child distinguish familiar voices. Describe the voices as high or low, soft or loud, light or dark...
• Encourage your child to move appropriately to music by marching, galloping, skipping, tiptoeing, walking, gliding, swaying...
• Encourage your child to move creatively while listening to music.
How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Grade One
• Help your child at home by providing experiences with each of the elements of music: rhythm, melody/pitch, harmony/texture, form, dynamics, tone color, tempo.
• Draw upon environmental sounds and sounds within the home, such as birds singing, grandfather clocks, dripping faucet, whistling teapot, ice being dropped into glasses, tapping glasses filled with varying amounts of liquid, blowing over bottles which are filled to different levels, hammering, sawing, lawn mower.
• Listen with your child to a wide range of music and discuss the prominent elements heard.
Explore home record, tape, and cd collections, library collections, radio and television programs, and music found on internet.
• Teach your child to sing songs which are familiar to you. Encourage your child to sing and teach you songs learned at school.
• If you play a musical instrument, play for your child frequently.
• Encourage your child to explore and create movement which reflects their feelings toward a wide variety of musical examples.
• If your child expresses an interest in writing musical notation at home, encourage him or her to explain the signs, symbols, or terms used.
• Encourage your child to make instruments at home and share them with their classmates and the music teacher.
• Help your child discover ways music is used in our culture and in others.
How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Grade Two
• Discuss with your child music heard in a variety of venues. Explore home record, tape, and cd collections, library collections, radio and television programs, music in concert halls and on the internet.
• Encourage your child to sing songs learned at school and to discuss the text, as well as prominent elements of music.
• Involve your child with friends and family members in informal playing and singing sharing sessions.
• Encourage your child to create movements to familiar songs and recorded selections.
• Ask your child to explain and demonstrate the music symbols used in the school music class.
• Select and watch with your child television programs and videotapes which illustrate various uses of music in our culture and others.
How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Grade Three
• Listen with your child to recordings of music by well-known composers. Discuss the times and life of the composer.
• Discuss with your child appropriate singing posture and singing voice.
• If your child expresses particular interest, allow him or her to take private lessons on an instrument or to elect strings instrumental music at school.
• Encourage your child to create movements which illustrate recognition of the elements of music in familiar songs and recorded examples.
• Ask your child to explain and demonstrate the music symbols used in the school music class.
• Attend concerts by a symphony orchestra or other instrumental ensemble and describe how the sounds of various instruments are produced.
• Explore with your child the emotional content of various styles of music.
How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Grade Four
• Listen with your child to recordings of music by well-known composers. Discuss the times and life of the composer and societal influences reflected in the music.
• Encourage your child to participate in school chorus.
• If your child expresses particular interest, provide opportunities for participation in outside musical groups, such as church or community choirs, orchestras, community theatre, summer camps.
• If your child expresses particular interest, allow him or her to take private lessons on an instrument and/or to elect instrumental music at school.
• Encourage your child to create structured movement patterns which enhance the elements of music.
• Suggest that your child compose a song or melody at home and record it using original or traditional notation.
• Take your child to local high school band concerts or other performances and discuss groupings of instruments based upon how sounds are produced.
How To Help Your Child At Home
Music - Grade Five
• Encourage your child to do follow-up research on composers, periods of music, or other music related topics, using encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, or internet.
• Encourage your child to participate in outside musical groups, such as church or community choirs, orchestras, community theatre, summer camps.
• If your child expresses particular interest, allow him or her to take private lessons on an instrument and to elect instrumental music at school.
• Encourage your child to participate in school chorus.
• Provide opportunities for your child to attend concerts in the community, for example:
• Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Centennial Park
• Howard Community College Smith Theatre
• Saturday Summer Series at the Meyerhoff
• Oregon Ridge Summer Concerts
• Wolftrap Free Workshops
• Summer Theatre Performances
• Columbia Festival of the Arts
• Child-appropriate Shows at Area Dinner Theatres
Discuss the performances, evaluating and critiquing selection of music, effectiveness of performance, and hobbies and careers in music.
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