UNIT PLAN- GRADE 2 December

9 Lessons
Generative Topic: In this month, students will be getting excited about the winter holidays coming up,
and will therefore be a little more active and excited than normal. Therefore, I think it is important to
incorporate that excitement into their regular day to day classes. I will therefore be planning to use
student enthusiasm to create my various lessons by planning songs, games, and activities that relate to
the holidays and snow while still maintaining a focus on the requirements in the program of study.
Unit Title: Winter Holidays
Big Idea: By the end of this unit, students will understand that rhythm accompanies melody
Essential Questions:

1. What is accompaniment?
2. How can I move to show the story the music is telling?
3. How do holiday songs tell a story?
Concepts Taught:

Understanding that rhythm accompanies melody

Notes printed on a staff show the direction of the melody
A musical piece is divided into sections and are identified by
letters
There is a beginning, middle and end of a piece of music
Music has various tempos
Tempos can change quickly
Music has various dynamics
Melodies may rise and fall
Ability to respond to musical phrases
Students are able to create movements based on the poem,
story or song
Move to music depending on the phrases
Showing various musical changes through movement
Understanding various ethnic holiday songs
Ability to play simple rhythmic patterns while following scores
Creating new words for simple melodies
Create accompaniments for simple melodies

Curricular Outcomes:

Activities:

O Hanukkah
Sleigh ride- Mozart
Holiday Round
Ring Ring Ring the Bells
Rocks for Christmas
Listening games
Instrument stories- using Glockenspiels, metallophones and
xylophones
Dance for Hanukah
The Dreydl song
Giddy-up my Burro
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols

RH6- Rhythm Patterns can accompany melody

ME6- Printed symbols in music show the direction of the
melody
FO4- A whole piece of music may be compromised of a
number of sections
FO5- Sections may be identified by letters
F06- There may be an introduction, an interlude and an
ending
EX8- Music may be fast or slow and may change from
one to the other suddenly or gradually
Ex9- Music dynamics may change suddenly or gradually
L9- Detect the rise and fall of melody
L11- Respond to phrases in music
MO7- Improvise movements to poems, stories and songs
MO8- Move to form in music, like phrases and unlike
phrases
MO9- Through movement show awareness of changes in
tempo, dynamics and mood
SI10- Respond to tone matching with other voices and
instruments
SI110 Sing many folk, ethnic, seasonal and holiday songs
PI8- Play simple rhythm patters
PI9- Follow simple rhythm scores
PI10- Play rhythmic and ostinato patterns to accompany
songs
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble clef sign
RW11- Follow notation from left to right while singing and
playing
CR4- Make up new words to songs
CR5- Create melodic accompaniments for songs

Materials Needed:

Grade 2 Game Plan

Beginner handbell units

Movement in Steady Beat- Phyllis Weikart
Music time again
Musicplay- Grade 2

Assessment
Assessment Tool
Observational checklist
used to assess student
ability to follow a story set to
music

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to differentiate
between patterns and
phrases using movement

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to differentiate
between musical tempos
using movement

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to correctly match
tone and pitch while singing
basic melodies

Paper quiz to assess

whether students are able
to identify the rhythms they
heard

Observational checklist
used to assess student
knowledge of the
beginnings of the Sol Fa
scale

Quick paper quiz to assess

whether students can
identify So, Mi, La, Re, and
Do

Observational checklist
used to assess student
knowledge rhythmic
accompaniment

Observational checklist
used to assess student
knowledge rhythmic
accompaniment

Outcomes

Description

For

FO4- A whole piece of music may be

compromised of a number of sections
FO5- Sections may be identified by letters
F06- There may be an introduction, an
interlude and an ending

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess student ability to follow a story set
to music

EX8- Music may be fast or slow and may

change from one to the other suddenly or
gradually
Ex9- Music dynamics may change suddenly or
gradually
L9- Detect the rise and fall of melody
L11- Respond to phrases in music
MO7- Improvise movements to poems, stories
and songs
MO8- Move to form in music, like phrases and
unlike phrases
MO9- Through movement show awareness of
changes in tempo, dynamics and mood

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess students ability to differentiate
between patterns and phrases using
movement

EX8- Music may be fast or slow and may

change from one to the other suddenly or
gradually
Ex9- Music dynamics may change suddenly or
gradually
L9- Detect the rise and fall of melody
L11- Respond to phrases in music
MO7- Improvise movements to poems, stories
and songs
MO8- Move to form in music, like phrases and
unlike phrases
MO9- Through movement show awareness of
changes in tempo, dynamics and mood

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess students ability to differentiate
between musical tempos using movement

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess students ability to correctly match
tone and pitch while singing basic melodies

SI10- Respond to tone matching with other

voices and instruments
SI110 Sing many folk, ethnic, seasonal and
holiday songs

SI110 Sing many folk, ethnic, seasonal and

holiday songs
PI8- Play simple rhythm patters
PI9- Follow simple rhythm scores
PI10- Play rhythmic and ostinato patterns to
accompany songs
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble
clef sign
CR5- Create melodic accompaniments for
songs
RH6- Rhythm Patterns can accompany melody

Using this paper quiz teacher will assess

whether students are able to identify the
rhythms they heard

As

ME6- Printed symbols in music show the

direction of the melody
FO4- A whole piece of music may be
compromised of a number of sections
FO5- Sections may be identified by letters

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess student knowledge of the
beginnings of the Sol Fa scale

ME6- Printed symbols in music show the

direction of the melody
FO4- A whole piece of music may be
compromised of a number of sections
FO5- Sections may be identified by letters

Using this quick paper quiz teacher will

assess whether students can identify So, Mi,
La, Re, and Do

SI110 Sing many folk, ethnic, seasonal and

holiday songs
PI8- Play simple rhythm patters
PI9- Follow simple rhythm scores
PI10- Play rhythmic and ostinato patterns to
accompany songs
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble
clef sign
CR5- Create melodic accompaniments for
songs
Understanding that rhythm accompanies
melody

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess student knowledge rhythmic
accompaniment

SI110 Sing many folk, ethnic, seasonal and

holiday songs
PI8- Play simple rhythm patters
PI9- Follow simple rhythm scores
PI10- Play rhythmic and ostinato patterns to
accompany songs
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble
clef sign
CR5- Create melodic accompaniments for
songs

Through this observational checklist teacher

will assess student knowledge rhythmic
accompaniment

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Lesson Summary
Lesson

Activities

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to

Assessment/ Evaluation

Understand that songs, like stories have a

beginning a middle and an end

Observational checklist used to

assess student ability to follow a
story set to music

Pease Porridge Hot

O Hanukkah
Sleigh ride- Mozart
Holiday Round
Ring Ring Ring the Bells
Rocks for Christmas

Identify like and unlike patterns and phrases

through music

Observational checklist used to

assess students ability to
differentiate between patterns and
phrases using movement

Pease Porridge Hot

O Hanukkah
Sleigh ride- Mozart
Holiday Round
Ring Ring Ring the Bells
Rocks for Christmas

Demonstrate their understanding of students

ability to differentiate between tempo in
music

Observational checklist used to

assess students ability to
differentiate between musical
tempos using movement

Listening games
Instrument games- using
Glockenspiels, metallophones
and xylophones
Dance for Hanukah
The Dreydl song
Giddy-up my Burro

Match tone and pitch with others in the class

Observational checklist used to

assess students ability to correctly
match tone and pitch while singing
basic melodies

Continue to demonstrate their knowledge

and understanding of basic rhythmic
patterns through echo, simple melodies

Demonstrate their knowledge of the sol-fa

scale through various melody games

Expand their understanding of a sol fa scale

to include re and do with good tone to
demonstrate their beginner understanding of
how scales work

Paper quiz to assess whether

students are able to identify the
rhythms they heard

Observational checklist used to

assess student knowledge of the
beginnings of Solfege

Quick paper quiz to assess

whether students can identify So,
Mi, La, Re, and Do

Demonstrate that rhythmic patterns can

accompany melody through holiday songs

Observational checklist used to

assess student knowledge
rhythmic accompaniment

Demonstrate that rhythmic patterns can

accompany melody by creating
accompaniments for various holiday songs

Observational checklist used to

assess student knowledge
rhythmic accompaniment

Listening games
Instrument games- using
Glockenspiels, metallophones
and xylophones
Dance for Hanukah
The Dreydl song
Giddy-up my Burro
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to
dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to
dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to
dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols
Listening games
Instrument games- using
Glockenspiels, metallophones
and xylophones
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to
dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols
Listening games
Instrument games- using
Glockenspiels, metallophones
and xylophones
Holiday Treats
Up on the housetop
Chinese Dance (Tchaikovsky)
There was a pig went out to
dig
Deck the Halls
Hanukah, Hanukah
Various Christmas Carols
Listening games
Instrument games- using
Glockenspiels, metallophones
and xylophones