Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Dear Learning Coach,
Thank you for partnering with CCA and investing in your learner’s education. This Learning Coach Guide is intended to help you support your learner in their Music K course.
Within this guide, you will find the goals, components, and features of the online course. Please take time to read and review this information so you understand how to help your learner interact with all the course’s elements.
The Learning Coach Guide also includes information about each of the units in this course. On each page of unit information, you will discover the following.
CCA wishes you and your learner a terrific school year!
Your role as a Learning Coach is very important. Here are a few ways you can help your learner do their very best in the course.
In Music K, your learner explores the foundations of music. By the end of the year, your learner will be able to:
Lesson Components:
Each week, your learner will spend 45–60 minutes completing a music lesson. Some weeks may take less time, while other weeks may take a little more time. The lesson does not need to be completed in one sitting. Encourage your learner to take short breaks as they need.
This section will help you to understand how your learner’s course is structured in edio.
Lesson Bundling:
Within the lesson bundles, there are different components your learner will interact with. These components will not be used every day.
See example below:
1. Getting Started Lesson: There is one Getting Started lesson in this course. It can be found on Day 1 of Unit 1. This lesson includes important information about the course and contact information for the teacher.
2. Unit Overview: Each unit will include a Unit Overview. This describes what your learner will learn in the unit and how many assessments the unit will have.
3. Prep for Success: At the beginning of each unit, your learner will find a Prep for Success. This component offers learners tips to be successful in the course, such as study tips, important software information, safety reminders, and more.
4. Knowledge Check: There will be one Knowledge Check in each unit. The Knowledge Check is designed to check prior learning and understanding of key skills and concepts that will be taught in the unit. The Knowledge Check is not a graded assessment.
Each lesson has its own components to help guide your learner through the lesson.
1. Lesson Overview: At the beginning of every lesson, your learner will see the Lesson Overview. This section contains lesson objectives, lesson vocabulary, materials your learner will need for the lesson, and the suggested lesson length.
2. Engage: The first section of the lesson is Engage. In this section, learners will be introduced to the lesson by making a connection to past and present knowledge and will get ready for the lesson’s instruction.
3. Discover: New content and instruction is presented in the Discover section. Your learner will interact with the lesson content through defined vocabulary terms, videos, audio, and Pause and Think activities. Your learner will be able to practice and answer questions as they work through the lesson.
4. Show: Learners will demonstrate what they have learned in the lesson through a series of practice questions.
5. Wrap Up: This section recaps the day’s objectives and prepares learners for a future lesson or assessment.
The course includes assignments. These graded assignments allow your learner to show what they have learned and apply their new skills. All CCA assignments include these components.
1. Assessment Overview: At the beginning of each assessment, your learner will see the Assessment Overview. This section contains the goals of the assessment, materials your learner will need, the length of the assessment, and directions for completion.
2. Plan: In the Plan section, learners will be introduced to the assignment or project. Learners may be provided with a review of content from the previous lessons, strategies for completing the activity, graphic organizers, and grading rubrics.
3. Do: Learners put their plan into action and work to complete the assignment or project successfully. This section also provides the grading expectations and/or rubric the teacher will use to grade the work.
4. Reflect: In Reflect, learners will think back to the work they completed. They will reflect upon the experience and analyze how well they completed the task. These moments of reflection are important and allow learners to think about their learning and their work habits.
This course includes and uses unique features such as:
Listening Exercises: Listening exercises are used to engage learners by exposing them to music that aligns with the lesson concept and set a mood. A listening exercise will be indicated by an audio icon to signal learners to prepare to use their ears. Listening exercises may ask learners to think about something specific in the music, perform along with the example, or use the example to answer a question.
Music Activity: Music activities are opportunities for learners to complete a hands-on activity to reinforce lesson concepts. Learners may be asked to complete activities such as drawing a picture related to the music heard, moving their body to music, or performing music with an instrument or with their voice. These activities will develop cognitive skills such as attention to detail, spatial reasoning, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Musical Instruments: Learners will be provided with rhythm sticks, a tone block, and corresponding mallets to enhance their knowledge of music and build a skill set throughout the course. Learners will learn how to use their musical instruments. These instruments will help form hand–eye coordination between reading music and performing.
Performance Practice: Performance practice can occur on a small scale with one to two pages of a lesson as a featured activity or on a large scale as the theme of an entire lesson. During performance practice, learners may be asked to use their voice, their body, or an instrument to perform a short selection of music. This helps the learner to connect their learning with hands-on practice and build confidence.
Composition: Learners will be given the opportunity to compose (write) music during composition activities or assignments. Composition helps the learner to express their individual creativity and imagination as well as develop cognitive skills.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about beat and rhythm.
Learners will learn to play the tone block and keep a steady beat on a tone block.
Your learner will learn how steady beat and rhythm are related and how to read and write rhythms.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What did you like best about this unit?
Which instrument did you like better, the rhythm sticks or the tone block? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly. Ensure the learner’s camera is positioned so they are visible for the recording.
Kit Materials
mallet, Music K Activity Book, rhythm sticks, tone block
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about beat and rhythm.
Learners will learn to play the tone block and keep a steady beat on a tone block.
Your learner will learn how steady beat and rhythm are related and how to read and write rhythms.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What did you like best about this unit?
Which instrument did you like better, the rhythm sticks or the tone block? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly. Ensure the learner’s camera is positioned so they are visible for the recording.
Kit Materials
mallet, Music K Activity Book, rhythm sticks, tone block
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about opposites in music, including fast and slow, loud and soft, and high and low.
Learners will explore musical words that have oppositions and how they affect music. They will also demonstrate the opposites of music through movement.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
Which musical opposites do you like the most? Why?
Which musical opposite would you have the most fun playing? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly.
They will also be moving using movement scarves. Encourage your learner to move their body and to use the scarves to help with their movements.
Kit Materials
movement scarves, Music K Activity Book, rhythm sticks
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about opposites in music, including fast and slow, loud and soft, and high and low.
Learners will explore musical words that have oppositions and how they affect music. They will also demonstrate the opposites of music through movement.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
Which musical opposites do you like the most? Why?
Which musical opposite would you have the most fun playing? Why?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly.
They will also be moving using movement scarves. Encourage your learner to move their body and to use the scarves to help with their movements.
Kit Materials
movement scarves, Music K Activity Book, rhythm sticks
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will explore making music with their voices and instruments.
Learners will learn about the four voices—shouting, singing, speaking, and whispering. They will further explore creating musical opposites with their singing voice.
Learners will also explore musical instruments and see how they can also perform musical opposites.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What is your favorite type of voice? Why?
What musical instrument do you like the sound of best?
What was your favorite part of the unit?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly.
Kit Materials
movement scarves, rhythm sticks, tone block
Household Materials
none
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will explore making music with their voices and instruments.
Learners will learn about the four voices—shouting, singing, speaking, and whispering. They will further explore creating musical opposites with their singing voice.
Learners will also explore musical instruments and see how they can also perform musical opposites.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What is your favorite type of voice? Why?
What musical instrument do you like the sound of best?
What was your favorite part of the unit?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly.
Kit Materials
movement scarves, rhythm sticks, tone block
Household Materials
none
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about the musical piece “The Carnival of the Animals.”
Learners will explore four movements from the piece and use their body to perform physical movements to the music. Learners will also analyze sections of “The Carnival of the Animals” using musical opposites.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What was your favorite animal from “The Carnival of the Animals?” Why?
What was your favorite part about this unit?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly. Ensure the learner’s camera is positioned so they are visible for the recording.
Kit Materials
movement scarves
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Unit Overview
In this unit, learners will learn about the musical piece “The Carnival of the Animals.”
Learners will explore four movements from the piece and use their body to perform physical movements to the music. Learners will also analyze sections of “The Carnival of the Animals” using musical opposites.
Unit Assessments
Unit Discussion Questions
What was your favorite animal from “The Carnival of the Animals?” Why?
What was your favorite part about this unit?
Unit Notables
Your learner will create audio and video recordings in this unit. You can provide support through this process by ensuring their microphone, speakers, and camera work properly. Ensure the learner’s camera is positioned so they are visible for the recording.
Kit Materials
movement scarves
Household Materials
pencil
Quiz _________________________
Test _________________________
Assignment ________________
Project _____________________
Exam _______________________
Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
