Music Lesson Plan

Focus: concept and skills to emphasize Grade Level: Kindergarten Title: Steady Beat – Kye Kye Kule wk
Rhythm Melody 2
Singing Listening
Form Harmony
Moving Creating Objectives:
Tone Color  TSW explore expression through music and movement
Expressive Qualities
 TSW perform solos in head voice
Playing Instruments
 TSW keep the steady beat in various activities
 TSW apply the term BEAT
Materials/Equipment:
 TSW practice correct treatment of an instrument and sharing
Sound Equipment  TSW apply the concept of vibrations
Hand Stamp
Microphone Process (The students will . . .)
1. practice walking into the room in boy girl order by walking in one at
a time in boy/girl order
2. walk into the room single file quietly to their seats along the chairs
National Music Standard(s)
following the example of the first student and practice remaining
Achieved:
 Singing, alone and with others, a varied standing until the class is all inside
repertoire of music 3. echo each phrase of the pitch exploration rhyme “Big Pig”
√ Performing on instruments, alone and with
others, a varied repertoire of music
4. recite as a class with expressive motions
 Improvising melodies, variations and 5. repeat
accompaniments
6. perform the echo song “Down By the Bay” phrase by phrase
 Composing and arranging music within
specific guidelines 7. repeat for retention
 Reading and notating music 8. arrange chairs in two circles in the middle of the room
 Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
 Evaluating music and music performances 9. begin the simple song game “Bluebird, Bluebird” by sitting in chairs
 Understanding relationships between music, and one student weaving in and out of the chairs
the other arts and disciplines outside the
arts
10. follow the teacher with the second part of the game with tapping
 Understanding music in relation to history the next student to lead the growing line
and culture
11. maintain game until all students are performing the weaving motion
12. go straight into the activity “The Little Bells of Westminster”
Bloom’s Taxonomy maintaining a beat motion in the feet with different tempos and
Remember Analyze motions
Understand Evaluate
Apply Create
13. if students are tiring, sit in the circles and maintain beat motions in
a stationary position
Differentiated Learning 14. apply the term TEMPO
Auditory Visual/Spatial
Kinesthetic Logical/Math
15. lay on the floor and listen to Beethoven Symphony No 7 allegretto
Verbal/Linguistic Musical Mvmt 2
Naturalistic Interpersonal
Intrapersonal

Differentiation
Students having difficulty with
head voice will be asked to
repeat the pitch exploration
activity as a solo more than
once for extra practice
Students with motor skill
trouble will place the guiro on
their knee