Musical activities: Vocal play: Press imaginary horn with hand making lots of different horn sounds. Sing, and grip the steering wheel, turning left and right. Sing the “Beep-beep” refrain, and beep with hand. Ask the children which part of this song is the refrain? Look for the repeated movement and lyrics. Repeat step two. Change […]
Musical activities: Turn on Sing along, or sing a cappella. Simple structured dance: • Partner up. • Refrain (Skip…): Holding hands, partners turn in a circle. • Verse: Face partner. Choose a new dyad variation or large movement variation and nonsense syllable for each verse. Say, “We need a new movement for the verse. Who has an […]
Musical activities: Distribute shakers. Lead as in lesson plan 12 for the value of repetition.
Musical activities: Vocal play (repeat several times). Create a vocal crescendo with the phrase, “Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle sizzle, pop! Whoo!” as follows: • Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle: Rub hands together • Pop: Jazz hands • Whoo: Wave above head Recite the rhyme with the following movements: • You put: Pat lap (macrobeat) • Sizzle: Rub […]
Musical activities: Distribute instruments, and turn on Sing and play as follows. Say, “refrain” at the start of each refrain to reinforce vocabulary. • Verse: Drum variations (macrobeat) • Refrain (Boom, boom): Same drum variation (microbeat) Reinforce spacing. • Model and observe spacing and consistent beat. • Sing a cappella. Point out the difference in the spacing during […]
Musical activities: Turn on Sing and dance as follows: • Skip to my Lou (refrain): Skip* (move circle to the right) and clap • Little red wagon (verse): Turn into circle, and bounce in place • Skip to my Lou (refrain): Skip and clap Choose a new large movement variation at the start of each new verse and adapt […]
Musical activities: Lead as in lesson plan 13 for the value of repetition. After distributing bells, play loudly, then softly. Incorporate loud/soft variations before moving into high/low.
Musical activities: Lead as in lesson plan 12 for the value of repetition. Incorporate children’s movement ideas. Prepare for later music reading: • Say, “My turn”: (point to self): “Wibble, wobble” as in rhyme, and do associated movement. • “Your turn” (gesture to students): Students imitate • “We can make pictures with our movements”: Hold up […]
Musical activities: Vocal play: Shake jazz hands near face while singing the first note on “ah.” Stop with pat on knees. Repeat several times, encouraging the children to join in. Sing a cappella or turn on Sing several times. Review suggested movements from lesson plan 6. Audiation: • Audiate “guli, guli” in heads. Continue associated movement. […]
Musical activities: Distribute instruments. Turn on Children choose an instrument playing freely to build confidence in improvisation and movement to the beat and rhythms. Model and observe spacing and consistent beat. Collect instruments.