Kindergarten Lesson 34
StartAnimal Songs, Farm, Food Songs, Our Musical World, Garden, Spring, North America, Central America, Eras in Music, RomanticGrades(s):
Kindergarten
Extra Details:
Themes
Grades
Song Type
Curriculum Links
Holidays
Learning Module Category
Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Sing the “Hello Song”
- Keep the beat with body percussion
- Warm up your singing voice with “Bobo”
- Echo Spring Rhythms
- Make your own Spring Rhythms
- Teach “Listen to the Water”
- Sing and move to “Listen to the Water”
- Listen to “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals
- Create movement with hands, plates, scarves to “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals
- Teach “Los pollitos”
- Optional: Read “Growing Vegetable Soup” by Lois Ehlert
- Teach “Watch our Garden Grow”
- Sing along with the Kids Demo for “Watch our Garden Grow”
- Optional: Have each student illustrate a little storybook to take home
- Review “Old MacDonald”
- Review “Peanut Butter”
- Sing and move to “Skinnamarink”
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 sing and move to music.
- I can read, create and perform rhythms.
- I can listen, move and respond to music.
Teaching Procedures
Sing the "Hello Song"
Copy LinkSing the echoes.
Sing and echo names in the blank spaces.
Keep the beat with body percussion
Copy LinkDo the body percussion shown in the video.
Warm up your singing voice with "Bobo"
Copy LinkEcho Spring Rhythms
Copy LinkEcho Mrs. Gagne with spring rhythms!
Make your own Spring Rhythms
Copy LinkMake your own verse cards with birds, fish, ducks and flowers.
Color and cut out the cards.
If you don't have a printer, fold a piece of paper into 4, and draw and color your own birds, fish, ducks and flowers.
Teach “Listen to the Water”
Copy LinkListen to the song "Listen to the Water" and put your picture cards in order as you sing!
Play the video again and sing along.
Sing and move to “Listen to the Water”
Copy LinkListen to “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals
Copy LinkWatch the video and listen to the music.
How does it make you feel?
Create movement with hands, plates, scarves to “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals
Copy LinkStudents can use 2 paper plates, hands, or scarves for this movement.
Play the video and copy the movement.
Teach “Los pollitos”
Copy LinkTeach the song by rote. If you are not familiar with Spanish, use the recording and the pause button to rote teach. Play a phrase and pause it. Sing the phrase. Play the next phrase. Repeat it. Continue in this way until the students can sing the entire song. If it is too difficult for them, explain what the song means and listen to it in Spanish and play along with shakers and sticks.
Create actions that show what the song is about, but use the recording instead of singing yourselves. You could sing this in English if the Spanish is much too difficult for your students but students are such great mimics that even if you find it difficult, they may not. Act out or dramatize the song. Choose one student to be the mother. All the other students are the chicks.
Optional: Read “Growing Vegetable Soup” by Lois Ehlert
Copy LinkTeach “Watch our Garden Grow”
Copy LinkListen to verse 1.
Play the video again and sing along.
Sing along with the Kids Demo for “Watch our Garden Grow”
Copy LinkSing along with the students in the Kids Demo video.
Optional: Have each student illustrate a little storybook to take home
Copy LinkOptional: Make a reproducible book of the song "Watch our Garden Grow".
This activity may be better for Grades 1 and 2 students who can read.