Grade 1 Lesson 30
StartArticulation, Beat, Tempo, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Timbre of Orchestral InstrumentsThemes(s):
Animal Songs, Food Songs, Eras in Music, Romantic
Extra Details:
Rhythm
Tone Set
Grades
Holidays
Learning Module Category
Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Do body percussion to “Welcome to Music”
- Echo fruit word rhythms
- Review “Let’s Save Water”
- Sing to Bobo
- Play Poison Melody with d m s
- Teach “Apple Tree”
- Learn the game for “Apple Tree”
- Sing and play the “Apple Tree” game
- Review do
- Do the Interactive Rhythm Activities for “Apple Tree”
- Option 1: Play “Apple Tree” on Boomwhackers
- Option 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Apple Tree”
- Create a Word Rhythm Composition with Fruit Words
- Optional: Complete the worksheet “Is it One Sound or Two?”
- Watch the Intro Video for “Aquarium”
- Move with hands or plates to the music
- Follow the Listening Map for “Aquarium”
- Optional: Have the Students Point to Their own Listening Map for “Aquarium”
- Optional: Have Students Color and Complete the Worksheet for “Aquarium”
- Sing “The Music Time is Over”
Extensions
Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.
Objectives
- I can perform and create rhythm and melody patterns.
- I can respond to music with movement.
- I can track a melody in a listening map.
Teaching Procedures
Do body percussion to “Welcome to Music”
Copy LinkDo body percussion as shown with our welcome song!
Echo fruit word rhythms
Copy LinkReview “Let’s Save Water”
Copy LinkSing and move to the song.
Sing to Bobo
Copy LinkPlay Poison Melody with d m s
Copy LinkThe next song begins with "Apple tree, apple tree."
Singers use the solfa notes so and mi to name these notes.
Sing some do-so-mi patterns to warm up for the "Apple Tree" song.
Teach “Apple Tree”
Copy LinkUse this song to read rhythms and melody. At this point in the year, the students may be able to read the song instead of teaching it by rote. Read the rhythms first.
To introduce the student to singing in parts, add an ostinato to the song. An ostinato is a pattern that repeats. You can perform an ostinato using body percussion (stamp, pat thighs, clap or snap) or on rhythm instruments, tone bars, or Boomwhackers. Try this ostinato with the song: ti-ti ti-ti ta ta. Try it with body percussion: pat pat pat pat clap clap. If you have tone bars or Boomwhackers, play it on G and D. You could use any unpitched instrument that you have. If you have no instruments in your classroom, it is possible to use found sounds instead - pat on the desk, then on the chair. Have the students create new ostinatos to try with body percussion or instruments.
Learn the game for “Apple Tree”
Copy LinkForm a standing up circle. The teacher walks with an apple around the inside of the circle, tapping a student on the head on each beat. The student tapped on the word “out” is the next person to walk with the apple. If it’s difficult for your students to reach the tops of the heads, have the students hold out their hands and tap hands instead. You can also play this as an elimination game, where the student that is “out” sits down. Elimination games sometimes lead to someone having hurt feelings. Instead of eliminating, the student that is “out” could go to a barred instrument and play an F-C bordun. If you don't have Orff instruments, you could have a selection of unpitched rhythm instruments to play.
Sing and play the “Apple Tree” game
Copy LinkReview do
Copy LinkDo the Interactive Rhythm Activities for “Apple Tree”
Copy LinkThe activities you choose for your students will depend on their prior experience.
If your students have not labeled ta and ti-ti yet, start at the beginning.
If your students are already reading ta and ti-ti, start at activity #6 - How Many Sounds.
Option 1: Play “Apple Tree” on Boomwhackers
Copy LinkOption 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Apple Tree”
Copy LinkCreative Ideas: Think of apple poems or tree poems to use between repetitions of the song. For example: Way up High in the Apple Tree, An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Create a Word Rhythm Composition with Fruit Words
Copy LinkI do - we do - you do is an awesome teaching technique.
I do - model with the interactive activity how to create and play a word rhythm composition with kinds of fruit.
We do - invite the students to suggest words to use, then what kind of instruments/body percussion/found sounds to play the rhythm. Invite their help in deciding if you should use the rhythm as an introduction to the song, or maybe 4 beats of it as an ostinato.
You do - a printable set of manipulatives is given for this activity. Give a set to each child and have them create and play their own word rhythm composition.
Optional: Complete the worksheet “Is it One Sound or Two?”
Copy LinkIf you have a printer at home, print the 'One Sound or Two' worksheet.
If you don't have a printer, make two columns on a piece of paper. Label one column 'One Sound'.
Label the other column 'Two Sounds'.
Clap the fruit words. Decide if they have one sound or two.
Write the name of the fruit in the correct column.
Watch the Intro Video for “Aquarium”
Copy LinkWatch the intro.
How does it make you feel.
What is your first reaction to the music.
Move with hands or plates to the music
Copy LinkIf you have 2 paper plates for each student, hand them out.
If not, students can move their hands to the music.
Follow the Listening Map for "Aquarium"
Copy LinkThe teacher should project and point to the map as the music plays.