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

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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.

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Classroom Activities: 

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Welcome

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Review Songs:

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"If You're Happy and You Know It"

"Down by the Bay"

"Shine, Shine, Shine"

"Run, Molly, Run" 

"Pony Macaroni"

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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 

"Phoebe" - Melodic Direction

"Here Comes Valerie" - Same or different Melodic Patterns

"Head, Shoulders Baby, 1,2,3"

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Hickory, Dickory, Dock

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Walk, Walk, Walk, then Stop song

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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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Animal Moves, Animal Grooves

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Rhythm Fish Activity - quarter note and eighth note identification

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Jingle Jam! Begin working on Holiday Showcase songs (memorizing) 

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If more time is needed, music game

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

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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.

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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

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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

Number One, Touch Your Thumb

We're Making Popcorn

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

 

Body Percussion

    * Spooky, Scary, Skeletons

 

 

Rhythm Project - Pumpkin Rhythms

 - Have students write a rhythm then decorate it

 - Take home :) 

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

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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"

* We Wish You a Merry Christmas

* Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer 

* Up on the Housetop

* Must Be Santa

* Santa Clause is Coming to Town 

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If more time is needed, music game

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