This game is a fun way to learn the names of the students and to get to know each other.

In this game, pat a steady beat. Pat-pat - then gesture with hands out 2 times.
When the hands go "out" you say your name.

Say names, favorite food, a sport they like, someplace they went in the summer etc.

Read and Discuss the Music Room Rules.

Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.

Extension: Give your students a piece of paper, and have them draw a picture of how they could follow one rule.

Practice names in your class with the Cookie Jar chant. Seat students in a circle and go around the circle.

Echo the teacher in the poem "This is my Speaking Voice".

Types of Voices Interactive - review the poem from last week or try a new poem

Find ways to keep the beat with the music from "Vivace".

This is music written by Handel.

Teach "A Smile Goes a Long, Long Way".

Can you think of some movements to do with the song?

Try singing along.

When someone smiles at you, how does it make you feel?

How do you think others feel when you smile at them?

Move with the teacher and kids to "Skateboard Rider"
Can you sing the chorus?

This song also provides opportunities for the students to explore different ways of moving, but in this case, following specific directions: down, up, in and out. If you’re doing this in the gym, give each student a hula hoop and have them perform the movements in (and out of) the hoop. You might play this as a game where the students change hoops each time they sing. In the music room, you could use big dots on the floor and have students change dots. This song is also included as reinforcement of the Week 1 lesson - following directions.

Use this song to show how the notes go high, middle, and low. Sing the song and show how the notes go with arm motions or use the body scale. If some students are unclear, have the students join hands and do this with hands joined.

A story written around the song “Andy Pandy” is included here. Oral storytelling is an ancient tradition. Storytelling will stimulate the students’s imagination, enrich their vocabulary, create connections with the story teller, and help them to develop communication skills. Listeners become engaged, more so if the story teller (you) is entertaining. This story was written to include many repetitions of the song, to help the students memorize it and learn to sing it accurately. The song is repeated at faster and slower tempos, and louder and quieter so you can introduce these concepts.

When you come to the song in the story, if you are able to, sing the song accompanying it with a simple bordun on D and A or singing it without accompaniment, slowly or quickly, loudly or quietly as the story suggests. Invite the students to draw and color a picture of something that the story makes them think of. If you like, make the story into a big book. Dramatize the story. Your students will have fun acting this out.

Denise Tips: Stories can be told more than once. Every time my grandsons have a sleepover, I tell them the story of the three bears before we go to sleep. They’ve heard this story forty or fifty times, but they always want to hear it again. Be as entertaining a story teller as you can.

Sing our closing song, "Skinnamarink".