Description

Lindy Bourque and Jennifer Thiemann join us to share about their curriculum design work for Music and Movement in the lower grades (Beginners - 4th grade) at NCCS.

Summary from the Guests

In the 2021-2022 school year, we combined what had previously been a Lower school “Creative Dramatics” class and a Lower School “Music” class into one course called “Music and Movement”. In the 2023-2024 school year, we made that same
intentional shift to “Music and Movement” in EC. We reviewed and made adjustments to the curriculum based on a year of living the program. Then we worked backwards to create the new EC “Music and Movement” curriculum:

• Skill development, from B3/4 to Grade 4, was defined.
• Learning objectives and grade-level summaries were written.
• Connections to external learning standards were identified and recorded.
• Basic pacing guides were created.