Grade 1 Back To School – Lesson 2
Teaching Procedures
Review “Welcome, Welcome”
Optional: Read the story “All Are Welcome Here”
Pause the video and sing the welcome song each time you here the words, "All are welcome here." If you have the storybook, accompany the refrain on C-G or D-A on Orff instruments. Then, you can use this as a way to review how to hold mallets and play the instruments.
Discuss How Tos and What ifs
Review quickly if you did this in Back to School Lesson 1.
Talk about procedures if this is your first week.
Say “Make Me a Circle”
Make Me a Circle chant is a way to have students make a circle quickly. Chant the poem starting quietly and getting louder, then count how many beats it takes to make a circle. You might have to count higher than 10 the first time!
Each time you make a circle, use the chant and see how quickly your students can make a circle!
Play the “Hello Circle Name Game”
Learn the names of the students in your class with this simple name game!
Continue to use this activity until you know your students names - and they know each other's names. Try the variations!
Teach the “Music Room Rules”
Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.
Review “Naughty Kitty Cat”
Teach the song by rote, showing with arm motions how the notes go higher and lower. Play the game.
Review the game “Naughty Kitty Cat”
The students stand in a circle with a “cat” on the inside and a “farmer” on the outside. At the word “scat,” everyone claps and the cat goes outside the circle to be chased by the farmer. The class claps and counts to ten, the time limit for the chase. Choose a new cat and farmer and continue the game.
Teach “What Shall We Do?”
Listen to the song on the recording. Stop after each verse and ask the children to tell you what the children in the song were doing outside. Write the key words on word strips and place in the pocket chart. Then sing the song, pointing to the words as you sing.
Teach “New Friends”
Teach the song "New Friends"
1. Read the words and have the students echo
2. Sing a phrase and have students echo
or
Play a phrase and have students echo
Optional: Complete the All About Me Worksheet
Optional: Complete and colour the All About Me worksheet.
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Save paper and ink and draw your own pictures on plain paper and write all about you!
Share your "All About Me" sheet with your teacher or someone in your family!
