Kindergarten Lesson 5
Teaching Procedures
Sing the Echoes in “Welcome to School”
Sing the echoes in “I am a Pizza”
Sing and move to “Hey! Hey! Look at Me!”
Sing and make up movements to the song “Hey! Hey! Look at Me”
Sing the song again, but this time, make up your own movements.
For example: (You'll need 5 different ideas)
1. Hey! Hey! Look at me! I am twisting you can see!
2. Hey! Hey! Look at me! I am jumping you can see!
3. Hey! Hey! Look at me! I am swaying you can see!
4. Hey! Hey! Look at me! I am twirling you can see!
5. Hey! Hey! Look at me! I am nodding you can see!
Complete the solfa interactive activities for “Hey! Hey! Look at Me”
Listen to “Autumn Leaves”
Listen to the song "Autumn Leaves" and point to the leaves while you listen.
The leaves show how the song goes higher and lower.
Play it again and sing along.
Show the body scale while singing “Autumn Leaves”
Sing the song "Autumn Leaves" and show the body scale.
The body scale shows how the notes go higher and lower.
Listen to the story "Leaves" by David Ezra Stein
Listen to the story or read the storybook to your students.
Draw shapes on paper plates to use as an instrument in “Shape Song”
For the next activity, cut out enough of each shape so that each of your students holds one shape/plate/instrument. When their shape is sung in the following song, they stand up and tap on their shape.
Paper option: If you don't have paper plates, draw the shapes on construction paper or paper.
Paper plate option: You could draw shapes on paper plates to use as an instrument. If you have a printer, you could print the shapes from the Supporting Resources above, cut them out and glue them to a paper plate.
Instrument Option: If you have a large assortment of classroom rhythm instruments, you may have enough instruments to give each student a different shaped instrument.
- Circles: Drums are circles
- Triangles are triangles
- Rectangle: woodblock, sandpaper block
- Square: Remo has made a set of sound shapes that include a square drum. (If you don’t have sound shapes, you may have to be inventive to find an instrument that is square. A perfect cube box could be used as a drum.)
Sing and play along with “Shape Song”
Sing and play along with "Shape Song".
Use the paper plate instruments you made in the previous activity.
Hold up the plate/instrument/paper when the shape is called for in the song, and tap on the drum with a dowel or a pencil.
Listen and do the actions for “Dr. Knickerbocker”
Listen and do the actions for "Dr. Knickerbocker".
When the song repeats, sing along!