Topic: Verse and Refrain, Steady Beat

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Standards Taught:

1c: Sing from memory songs from diverse cultures

1b: sing expressively with appropriate interpretation

6a: Listen to and identify form

6b: Describe music by moving to it and answering questions about it.

6e: While listening to music, move to show changes in the music

8b: Identify ways music relates to other school subjects.

9a: Listen to and identify music from different cultures

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Learning Targets: 

1. Students will be able to identify verse and refrain.

2. Students will discuss the mood of of a rainstorm in a song. 

3. Students will find and maintain a steady beat while listening to a piece of music. 

4. Students will be able to identify the A section and the B section of a song.

5. Students will be able to identify a step verses a skip. 

6. Students will listen to a story and add rhythm accompaniment. 

7. Students will perform on various percussion instruments. 

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Classroom Activities: 

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Welcome 

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Beat Buddies - steady beat

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Xylophone Activity (if class hasn't done it yet)

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Review

"I am the Music Man"

"A Ram Sam Sam"

"A Root Chy Cha" 

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New Songs 

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"Little Red Caboose" 

"5 Little Chickadees" 

"A Good Old Happy Song" 

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"Shanghai Chicken" 

- Verse and refrain

- Poem "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens" 

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"Amefuri"

- Japanese Rain Song

- Play the steady beat on a drum on section A 

- Play the rhythm on sticks on section B 

- Make the sticks sound like gentle rain

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"Pin Pon" 

- Steps and Skips

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"When Step Met Skip" Book/Story

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"Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party"

- Listen to the story

- Add rhythm accompaniment on percussion instruments 

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Other rhythm activities Review

- Rhythm Land

- My Pony Macaroni 

- Hands Like This

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If more time is needed, music game

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Topic: Celebrate Valentine's Day, C Major Scale, Expression, Fast and Slow Tempos, Rhythm Patterns using quarter notes and eighth notes

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Standards Taught: 

2b: Perform rhythms on appropriate instruments. 

5a: Read quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 meter

6b: Describe music by moving to it

8b: Identify ways music relates to language arts and science.

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Learning Targets: 

1. Students will sing using their singing voices.

2. Students will find and maintain a steady beat.

3. Students will learn and perform a line dance for Valentine's day. 

4. Students will play a C Major scale on the xylophones. 

5. Students will sing songs from memory. 

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Classroom Activities: 

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Welcome

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Beat Buddies

Rhythm Land

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Review

- Over the Deep Blue Sea

- 5 Chickadees (kindergarten)

- Shanghai Chicken (1st) 

- Go Bananas 

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New Songs

- "Making Valentines"

- "Valentine's Dance" 

  * Line dance, steady beat, following directions

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- "Popcorn popping (getting ready for Spring) 

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Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party

- Read story if class has not already done so 

- Teach party song

- Add Xylophones

- Play C Major scale using names of pizza toppings

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Spring Showcase

- Begin working on Spring Showcase songs (memorizing) 

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If more time is needed, music game, music valentines, etc.

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