Download 1st GRADE MUSIC—NC LESSON PLANS From: (Th) Sept 26

1st GRADE MUSIC—NC
LESSON PLANS
From: (Th) Sept 26- (T) Oct 1, 2013
Unit/Objective: “What are pitch and scale?”
Standards Incorporated/Bloom’s: Rhythm; Melody; Singing alone and with others; Music Literacy
CORE Integrations: SS: Citizenship; LA: Aural Language, Diction, Reading; Phys: Gross Motor Skills; Math:
Patterns, Reading a graph
Materials/Elements: Class List; Seating Chart; White Board (“Ebeneezer Sneezer” song written on board in
stairstep pattern); CD for “Lucy Locket”; Prop for “Lucy Locket” game
Essential Question: “What are pitch and scale?”
Set/Introduction: Greet students in line in the hallway; Lead them in to assigned places
Introduce ESSENTIAL QUESTION and recite CLASSROOM RULES
Activity/Lesson:
Review “Ebeneezer Sneezer”.
Ask students to list some of the actions Ebeneezer does that are silly. Sing the song as a review with motions.
After reviewing the song, I’ll ask what happens with our voices and the motions as we sing the various sections
of the song (each item is a higher pitch, the next sequence is a descending scale, the last two notes are a
descending octave jump that the students will differentiate from stepwise motion up the scale to large jumps
between pitches). Students should remember the stairsteps and we’ll review the terms SCALE and PITCH.
Referring to the solfege syllables and hand signals on the front wall, we’ll discover how these syllables
and hand signs correlate to the 8 stairsteps in the Ebeneezer song and remember how this song uses all 8 notes
in a scale.
I will highlight SO, LA, and MI as 3 of the pitches in our stairstep scale that will be in our new song
“Lucy Locket”. I will teach Lucy Locket by rote having the students mimic my SO, LA and MI hand signs and
listening for different details in Lucy’s story as we repeat the song. Once learned, we play a game where
Lucy’s pocket is hidden in the classroom and a student will have to find it following the clues of loud and soft
as the class sings the song louder (getting close to finding) and softer (getter far from finding). This is a
preview of dynamics that we will learn later in the year.
Review/Closure: Review the questions about the ascending/descending scale pattern in Ebeneezer and the
octave jump at the end. Review SCALE and PITCH. Review how “Lucy Locket” only had 3 scale pitches in
the song vs. “Ebeneezer” having all 8 scale pitches showing different ways to use scale pitches to compose new
songs.
ASSESSMENT: Is visual/aural observation of students following directions, repeating correct pitches and
words in the song, performing the correct motions in time as an individual/group, etc.
Reflection Notes: