Singing

Music Lesson Plan

Title:​ Little Sally Walker Grade Level: ​2nd grade

Source:​ Dr. McConkey

Materials needed:
Little Sally Walker Song Lyrics

Procedure: ​Anticipatory Set, Instructional Input, Modeling, Checking for Understanding,

Practice, Closure

A.S: “Who likes to go on walks? Where do you go on walks?”

1) Have kids get into a circle, “We are going to pretend our circle is a street”
2) “Let's talk about a girl named Sally Walker” Pretend you (teacher) is Sally Walker
3) “I'm going to sing a song, listen to me”
4) “Lets try and sing it, Repeat after me” Teach the songdo each phrase ONE phrase at a
time first. Then sing two phrases together and add on. Teacher sing first and have
students repeat back.
5) Walk around the circle and sing (have students sing with you) “Little Sally Walker down
the street..” (demonstrate the movement being added)
6) “She didn’t know what to do so she stopped in front of me” Stop in front of student you
were in front of and dance
7) Dancing (encourage students to be creative and have fun with there dances) “She said hey
girl do your thing, do your thing, do your thing, do your thing and SWITCH” Switch
spots with that person
8) Repeat until all students got a turn

Closure: “What did Sally do when she didn't know what to do?” “Do you think she’s having
fun?”

Educational Objective: ​ By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . . how to listen
and identify specific parts of a song, while singing and be able to demonstrate their
understanding with movements.
 Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Music
Emotional al​ ​Subjects

Working in a Role Playing Walking National “Core” Content

group setting around in Standards Music Standards
1.​ ​Singing Standards
Identifying the circle
2. Play MU:Pr4.3.Ka
Participation what part of Instruments Creating With
song you will Active 3​. Improvising Imagine guidance,
Having fun be acting too Involvement 4. Composing Plan and demonstrate
5. Reading & Make awareness of
Notating Evaluate & expressive
Dancing Refine
6. ​Listening qualities
Demonstrating Present (such as voice
7. Evaluating
movements for 8. Integration quality,
Performing
each area (outside arts) dynamics,
Select and tempo)
accurately and 9.
Analyze
History/Culture that support
on time Interpret
the creators’
Rehearse,
expressive
Evaluate, &
intent.
Refine
Present
MU:Re7.2.Ka
Responding With
Select guidance,
Analyze demonstrate
Interpret how a specific
Evaluate music concept
Connecting (such as beat
Connect #10 or melodic
Connect #11 direction) is
used in music.