Download Miss Bee Elementary General Music Lesson Plans – Week 6

Miss Bee
Elementary General Music
Lesson Plans – Week 6 – September 30-October 4
Kindergarten
Concepts taught: tempo, steady beat
Procedure: Hello song, follow procedures in teacher’s edition of Spotlight on Music
Kindergarten T26-27, teach “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” and change the
tempo various times
Resources: Spotlight on Music Kindergarten, Kindergarten big book, piano, CD
player
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will sing songs with rhythmic
accuracy, respond to tempo changes vocally and through movement
Grade 1
Unit 1- Lesson 4
Concepts taught: rhythm and melody
Procedure: Sing Hello Song, Teach and perform CMLS warmup routine with
flashcards, follow procedures in teacher’s edition of Spotlight on Music Grade 1 T26T29
Resources: Spotlight on Music Grade 1, Grade 1 books, Grade 1 big book, piano, dry
erase board, CD player
Songs: Willum 1:12, Sleep, Bonnie Bairnie 1:20, La ranita cri 1:23
Vocabulary: duu (half notes), du (quarter notes), du de (eighth notes), shh (quarter
rest)
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will be able to identify upward and
downward melodic movement, respond through movement to the melodic
direction, understand a visual display of melodic movement, improvise sound in
melodic movement
Grade 2
Unit 1 – Lesson 4
Concepts taught: melody (read sol and mi)
Procedure: Teach and perform CMLS warmup routine, follow procedures in
teacher’s edition of Spotlight on Music Grade 2 T18-T19, T20 if time permits, have
students sing a sentence using the syllables sol and mi
Resources: Spotlight on Music Grade 2, Grade 2 books, piano, dry erase board, CD
player, latin percussion (maracas, guiro, rhythm sticks), hand sign posters
Songs: Engine Engine Number Nine 1:17, Lemonade 1:25, Tabu 1:28
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will sing in rhythm and on pitch,
perform with diverse styles, improvise simple melodies, create short melodies, read
pitches in treble clef using pitch syllables and hand signs
Grade 3
Unit 1 – Lesson 4
Concepts taught: melody (read mi, re, do)
Procedure: Teach and perform CMLS warmup routine, review Patriotic Medley,
follow procedures in teacher’s edition of Spotlight on Music Grade 3 T18-19, T20-21
if time permits
Resources: Spotlight on Music Grade 3, Grade 3 books, piano, dry erase board, CD
player, hand sign posters
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will sing on pitch, read simple pitch
notation in the treble clef,move to show melodic direction and pitch patterns while
listening, identify mi re and do on the treble clef staff
Grade 4
Concept taught: melody, the Treble clef lines and spaces
Procedure:
-Run through/teach vocal warmups (some classes know them already, others do
not)
-Learn musical staff lines and spaces, students will create their own pseudonym for
remembering the lines and spaces on their sheets
-Students will participate in a line and space relay race. There will be four teams
with 5-7 players per team. Each team will be given seven index cards with the notes
written on them (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). Teams will sit in a row facing the front of
the room, and the last teammate will be given the index cards. When I reveal the
note, the last teammate will decide which note I wrote and pass up the
corresponding card. The teammates must pass this index card to the front of the
group without turning around or talking. The teammate in the front seat must view
the index card and sound the correct boomwhacker before the other three teams.
Any teams who turn around or talk will be disqualified for the round. The winning
team will receive one point, and the team with the most points wins the game!
Resources: individual treble clef staff handouts, pencils, dry erase staff, index cards
for game, piano, boomwhackers
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will be able to identify the lines and
spaces of the musical staff, create their own pseudonym for remembering the lines
and spaces, work as a team to identify names of lines and spaces, play notes of the
staff on boomwhackers
Grade 5
Concept taught: melody, the Treble clef lines and spaces
Procedure:
-Run through/teach vocal warmups (some classes know them already, others do
not)
-Learn musical staff lines and spaces, students will create their own pseudonym for
remembering the lines and spaces on their sheets
-Students will participate in a line and space relay race. There will be four teams
with 5-7 players per team. Each team will be given seven index cards with the notes
written on them (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). Teams will sit in a row facing the front of
the room, and the last teammate will be given the index cards. When I reveal the
note, the last teammate will decide which note I wrote and pass up the
corresponding card. The teammates must pass this index card to the front of the
group without turning around or talking. The teammate in the front seat must view
the index card and sound the correct boomwhacker before the other three teams.
Any teams who turn around or talk will be disqualified for the round. The winning
team will receive one point, and the team with the most points wins the game!
Resources: individual treble clef staff handouts, pencils, dry erase staff, index cards
for game, piano, boomwhackers
Evaluation: As a result of this lesson, students will be able to identify the lines and
spaces of the musical staff, create their own pseudonym for remembering the lines
and spaces, work as a team to identify names of lines and spaces, play notes of the
staff on boomwhackers