MUSIC LESSON PLAN

Abby Helt School: East Antioch Elementary

Grade: 2nd Week: October 22-28 (Week 11-12)

Objectives: Materials: Standards Addressed:

• Read so and mi from
iconic notation
• Create melodic patterns
using so and mi
• Ghost/Pumpkin Slideshow • Cr.1.2.b Generate musical patterns and
• Computer ideas within the context of a given tonality
• Projector and meter.
• Ghosts and pumpkins (5 of • Pr.2.2.b When analyzing selected music,
each) read and perform rhythmic and melodic
• Foam mats patterns using iconic or standard notation.

Song/Activity – line order in rows Transition

So-Mi as ghosts and pumpkins “When I call your row, you will
• Project Ghost/Pumpkin Slideshow need to get a foam mat and a
• Review solfege scale with hand signs baggie with ghosts and pumpkins
• “Today our patterns are going to use So and Mi” and go find a spot on the floor at
• “If we have a ghost and a pumpkin which would be higher?” Ghosts the front of the room”
• “So is going to be ‘ghost’ because ghosts fly and are higher than pumpkins”
• “Mi is going to be ‘pumpkin’ because pumpkins are low on the ground”
• Sight-sing patterns of ghosts and pumpkins from Slideshow

Song/Activity – spread out on the floor Transition

Create pattern using ghosts and pumpkins After all students’ patterns have
• Students create a pattern of 8 total ghosts/pumpkins on foam mat been checked: “When I have
o Show that ghosts are higher than pumpkins “Imagine there is an checked your pattern, please make
invisible line on your mat. Ghosts go above the line and pumpkins go sure you have 5 ghosts and 5
below the line” pumpkins and put them back in
• “When your pattern is ready, find a partner and sing it for them, then raise your baggie. Then put your baggie
your hand and I will come and listen to you sing it” and mat back in their piles and line
• Help students as needed up at the door”
• Listen (or sing along) when students are finished making their pattern
• “If you have extra time, try making more patterns and share with a
neighbor!”

Assessment Tool
Can students create a melodic E – Excellent, student can sing their pattern on correct pitches
pattern using so and mi? S – Satisfactory, student can sing most of their pattern on correct pitches
NI – Needs Improvement, student is still working on singing their pattern on pitch