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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Form
In this lesson you will
1. Echo the cat
2. Sing, “Welcome Welcome”
3/4/5. Read the story, “All are Welcome Here” or “So-me goes Missing” or “Listening Walk”
6. Teach/Review or skip ahead How to… and What if?
7. Teach/Review or skip ahead Music Room Rules
8/9 Whoops Johnny finger play (names)
10/11/12 I’ve got the Beat (JJ) – sing and move to the beat
13. fruit rhythms – echo/create
15. Move to the Drum (new)
16/17 What Shall We Do When We All go out? – create new verses
18/19 Optional: Naughty Kitty Cat – chase game
20. Optional: All About Me – print and draw
21. “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
Starting dates for school districts can vary from end of July to after Labor Day! The Musicplay song sequence will begin in September week 1. This August Back to School Lesson Module 4 (and all the August modules) are given for teachers who start earlier than Labor Day. Start in whatever week your school district begins. When activities are repeated in the August lessons, review as needed or skip ahead. There are extensions or new concepts and learning each week in August.
Echo what the pets sing.
Listen to the song.
Play the video again and sing along!
New! If you have Orff instruments - teach the children how to hold the mallets and have them play a solid bordun on C-G.
Extensions:
1. Say "Welcome" to each student in your class and have the rest of class echo the same way you said it.
2. Use a high voice for one student, and a low voice for the next. The students who echo will experience high/low. Try loud/quiet, fast/slow, and singing using a variety of tone sets.
3. Keep a beat while you say the welcome. The first time, clap or pat the beat. In future weeks, play the beat on an instrument.
4. Discuss with the students the instrument that you used. For example if you use rhythm sticks, as the students questions such as:
• What are these called?
• What are they made of?
• How can I make sound on them? Try out different ways - tapping, clicking, drumming, scraping
• Classify the instrument as a wood, metal, shake/scrape or drum
In this way the students will learn about many of the classroom instruments!
Pause the video and sing the welcome song each time you hear the words, "All are welcome here."
This is a lovely, diverse storybook. If you are able to, order your own copy of it.
All Are Welcomeby Alexandra Penfold (Author), Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)
If you started in August Week 1 and have already read this story, read the So-Me Goes Missing Storybook instead. (below)
Listen to the story.
Every time there is a part that's sung, pause the video and echo the singing.
This book includes many sounds in the environment - sounds around us.
Create sound effects to go with the sound words in the story - eg. drip, drip, drip, drip or Buzz....
Have students close eyes for 20-30 seconds and listen.
Make a list of all the sounds the students can hear in the classroom.
Jump ahead if you've already read the story.
If you've already read stories 1-2, Read "The Listening Walk" to your students.
Then do a "listen" in your classroom and create a list of all the things you can hear.
Review quickly if you did this in Aug. week 1-2-3
Talk about procedures if this is your first week.
Read and Discuss the Music Room Rules. (or skip ahead if this is Week 3 or 4)
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.
Teach the words to the finger play, "Johnny Whoops"
This is great review of student names!
Extension: Ask the students if they'd like you to say their name loud or quiet.
Ask some if they'd like their name fast or slow.
It's a great way to review those concepts.
To learn the movements, view the kids demo that follows.
Watch the teacher to learn how to do the finger play "Whoops Johnny."
After the finger play is learned, invite each student to tell you if they want to have their name said fast or slow.
Substitute student names for "Johnny."
Read and echo the words to the song "I've Got the Beat"
Teacher: reads a line Students: Echo
Try 2 lines - then 4
Skip ahead if students can sing the song.
Do movements with JJ to the song "I've got the Beat"
Watch the video, say the fruit rhythms, and echo the teacher.
You will say the rhythms with the students on the recording.
Copy and cut out the Apple-Plum cards found in supporting resources.
If time permits, have your students create their own fruit rhythms.
Have students stand and move in place to the drum.
Talk about the appropriate ways to move in the open space.
(no bumping or pushing, listen and move to the music)
If students are ready, have them move to the drum - or drum yourself and have students move and stop.
Teach the song by rote.
Sing or play a phrase and have the students echo.
Then, jump ahead to the song video.
Sing the song.
Invite the students to think of new verses for the song and sing them.
If you have an amazing class, you could teach the song, and try this chase game.
Teach the song by rote. Sing or play a phrase and have the students echo.
Watch how the kids play the game.
Try the game if your students are ready.
In the classroom, speed walk safely instead of running.
Print and fill out the "All About Me" Worksheet.
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Save paper and ink and use your own paper and drawings to make your own "All About Me" sheet.
Omit if you have already done this activity in week 1-2-3
Sing along with the video. Most students will know this song.
Extension:
• walk to the eighth notes and stretch to the quarter notes. Experiencing short and long notes through movement will help them understand the concept of short and long sounds when you label it.
• Play the words of the songs on instruments. Play the eighth notes on sticks and the quarter notes on a triangle or finger cymbal.
Teacher note - with very young students, I sometimes have them play a finger cymbal with a mallet instead of ringing one cymbal against the other. This activity will have students experience short and long sounds.