Music

About:

Carina has been teaching music and performing arts at LCS for many years. All students experience music once a week. She also leads group instrumental and chorus groups and older students can access individual and group instrument lessons.

Carina Ellis

cellis@lincolnsd.org

Curriculum

Kindergarten

Performing

  • I can try again and I can get better

  • I can stay in my spot and participate for the whole performance

Responding

  • I can use my words and/or body to describe or show what I hear

  • I can talk about how a piece of music makes me feel.

  • I can express my opinion about a piece of music

Creating

  • I can experiment with my voice or instrument to create music

  • I can choose and show musical ideas

Connecting

  • I can make music that is important to my community

Grade 1

Performing

  • I can demonstrate why my teacher chose a piece for performance

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and ask for ways to make it better

  • I can express my best self when performing

Responding

  • I can use my words and/or my body to identify or show specific musical elements

  • I can talk about how a piece of music makes me feel and why

  • I can express my opinion about a piece of music and why I feel that way

Creating

  • I can use my voice or instruments to create music within provided guidelines

  • I can choose and show musical ideas

  • I can use feedback to make changes to my work

Connecting

  • I can experience music and describe how it is important to a community

Grades 5-6

GENERAL MUSIC

Performing

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and independently apply appropriate practice skills

  • I can use professional performance etiquette

Responding

  • I can use specific vocabulary to describe what I hear and identify similarities and differences in performances

  • I can identify details in a performance that give me clues about where or why it exists

Creating

  • I can use multiple elements to create a performance

Connecting

  • I can describe how a piece of music has influenced or has been influenced by culture, society and/or history

Grade 2

Performing

  • I can demonstrate why my teacher chose a piece for performance

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and ask for ways to make it better

  • I can express my best self when performing

Responding

  • I can use my words and/or my body to identify or show specific musical elements

  • I can talk about how a piece of music makes me feel and whyI

  • can express my opinion about a piece of music and why I feel that way

Creating

  • I can use my voice or instruments to create music within provided guidelines

  • I can choose and show musical ideas

  • I can use feedback to make changes to my work

Connecting

  • I can experience music and describe how it is important to a community

Grades 3-4

Performing

  • I can choose performance music with my classmates that displays our skills, our interests, and new learning

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and participate in teacher-led practice skills

  • I can use appropriate performance etiquette

Responding

  • I can use musical vocabulary to describe what I hear

  • I can identify details in music that give me clues about where and why a piece of music exists with help

  • I can express my opinion about a piece of music using musical vocabulary

Creating

  • I can use my voice or instruments to create music based on specific musical ideas

  • I can express musical ideas using various symbols

  • I can use feedback to make changes to my work

Connecting

  • I can listen to music and connect it to its society, culture, or history

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Performing

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and independently apply appropriate practice skills

  • I can choose repertoire to perform based on my skills, my interests, and the opportunity for new learning.

  • I can use professional performance etiquette

Creating

  • I can express musical ideas using musical notation

CHORAL MUSIC

Performing

  • I can recognize areas for improvement and independently apply appropriate practice skills

  • I can use professional performance etiquette

Creating

  • I can use multiple musical elements to create a piece of music