Explore Music with Pierre

Explore Music with Pierre is an activity in JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten: Fundamentals. It is intended to teach music skills and music appreciation at a kindergarten level.

Digital manual description
Game Play Instructions

Learn about musical instruments and the sounds they make in this exploration activity featuring classical, rock and jazz music. Change styles and instruments by clicking buttons on the music box. Click on any musician to hear their instrument. Kids can also explore the structure of music by muting and mixing tracks by clicking on musicians during a song. Or click the megaphones under a musician to hear them play louder during a song. Tap the spacebar to during a song, if you want to make the stage lights flash to the beat. Pierre awards a musical note with each correct round.

Level 1: Musical instruments and musical styles.

Level 2: Distinguishing Instruments by sound.

Level 3: Distinguishing differences in musical patterns.

Educational Skills


 * Music appreciation
 * Identifying instruments by sound
 * Musical styles
 * Musical patterns