Topic: Steady Beat, Form (Call and Response), Melody (High/Low Sounds), Rhythms 

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Standards Taught: 

1b: Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics

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

6c: Use appropriate terms to explain music

8b: Identify ways music relates to language arts.

9c: Identify uses of music in everyday life.

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Learning Targets: 

1. Students will learn and be able to demonstrate classroom rules and procedures. 

2. Students will sing using their singing voices.

3. Students will match pitch to the best of their ability.  

4. Students will learn and demonstrate the difference between loud and soft sounds 

5. Students will move to music to show differences in sounds

6. Students will perform on various percussion instruments and be able to identify them.

7. Students will be able to identify quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests. 

8. Students will be able to identify rhythm patterns by just listening. 

10. Students will be able to compose and perform their own 4 beat rhythm patterns. 

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Classroom Activities: 

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Welcome

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Review Songs:

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5 Little Pumpkins

Whisper, Talk, Shout, Sing

Phoebe

Here Comes Valerie

Head, Shoulders, Baby 123

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

Number One, Touch Your Tongue

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New Songs:

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"Mashed Potatoes" - Call and Response

"Little Green Frog" - High/Low Sounds

Frog - Poem

Leaves Dance Up and Down - Big Book Page 10

Leaves Poem 

Freight Train

Shanghai Chicken

We're Making Popcorn

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Body Percussion

    * Spooky, Scary, Skeletons

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BoomWhackers

* Halloween Songs with Boomwhackers

* Skeleton Song

* Steady beat, playing in parts, following music

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Pass the Pumpkin music game

 

 

Rhythm Project

 - Have students write a rhythm then decorate it

 - Take home :) 

 - Assessment (2 beat rhythm, or 4 beat rhythm)

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Spooky rhythms 

* Identifying Ta and Ti Ti and shh!

* Assessment

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Steady Beat with sticks and/or Beat Buddies

- Finding the beat

- Maintaining the steady beat

- Following the leader

- Finding steady beat independently 

- Assessment

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Jingle Jam

* Continue working on showcase music 

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Jump!

* Story book, song, steady beat activity with xylophones

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If more time is needed, music game

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Topic: Loud and Soft Dynamics, High and Low Sounds, Steady Beat, Rhythm

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Standards Taught: 

1b: Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics

2e: Play instruments in groups, following a conductor

4a: Compose music to accompany dramatizations

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

6c: Use appropriate terms to explain music

8b: Identify ways music relates to language arts.

9c: Identify uses of music in everyday life.

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Learning Targets: 

1. Students will demonstrate classroom rules and procedures. 

2. Students will sing using their singing voices.

3. Students will match pitch to the best of their ability.  

4. Students will learn and demonstrate the difference between loud and soft sounds 

5. Students will move to music to show differences in sounds

6. Students will perform on various percussion instruments and be able to identify them.

7. Students will be able to find and maintain a steady beat as and group and individually. 

8. Students will be able to demonstrate sing, speak, whisper, shout voices. 

9. Students will be able to identify high sounds, middle sounds, and low sounds. 

10. Students will sing and perform songs from memory.

11. Students will be able to identify quarter notes and eighth notes. 

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Classroom Activities: 

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Welcome, Hello There warm-up song

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Review Songs:

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Peanut Butter

Looby Loo

Head and Shoulders

John Kanaka - Easy Folk Dance

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New Songs

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Shanghai Chicken

We're Making Popcorn

Bluebird Bluebird

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Steady Beat with sticks and/or the Beat Buddies

- Maintaining steady rhythm

- Following the Leader

- Finding a steady beat on your own 

- Arkansas Traveler

- Assessment 

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High and Low (Xylophones?) 

Use Beat Buddies to help students see where high notes are on the xylophone vs. low notes

"Wee Willy Winky"

"Hot Spicy Tacos" 

- Body percussion, add mallets

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- Go over xylophone playing procedures 

- Talk about how careful we are playing xylophones

 

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Quarter Notes and Eighth Notes

* Show what a quarter note looks like "Ta"

* Show what a eighth note looks like "Ti Ti"

* Clap various rhythms

* Draw quarter notes and eighth notes and decorate drawings

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Pick the Apple Rhythm activity

* Teacher will play a rhythm

* Students will work in teams to find the card the teacher played! 

* Listening, identifying rhythms

 

Holiday Highlights

* Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

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If time is needed, music game

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