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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Form, Timbre of Unpitched Instruments
In this weeks lesson, we will:
Extension:
Sing the echoes in "Welcome to Music."
Find a ribbon or scarf and move to the music.
Teach the song by rote. Play the game, substituting students' names and movement ideas. The students may be able to read the rhythms of the song.
Watch the kids demo to see how the other students move to the song.
Begin by having students tiptoe to the beat as they sing the song.
Ask the students how else Betty Martin might move. Repeat the song, changing the action to what the students suggest (example: Hey, Betty Martin, run/hop/twirl...)
Invite the students to play the game in an open space. You can use this game to practice students' names. Substitute the student's name for "Betty Martin."
Find things at home to use for instruments.
Play instruments along with the song.
If you used stuffed animals in the last activity. Invite the students to rock their stuffed animal to sleep while singing this lullaby. Now that their stuffed animals are asleep, sing the song again and have students show how the notes go higher and lower using arm motions or hand signs.
Review high/low with the students. Move through the slides to show how the melody goes higher and lower.
You could give each student chips to use as "notes" to show how the song goes higher and lower (their diagram should resemble the melodic contour given on the answer slides).
Review the poem "Grandma's Glasses."
Do you remember who has the high voice?
And who has the low voice?
Listen to "Aviary".
Is the music high or low?
It's high!
Listen to "Elephant."
Is the music high or low?
It's low!
Optional: Print and color the high low worksheet.
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Draw your own picture of an elephant and a bird and label them high and low.
Listen to the So-me Storybook "So-me Meets the Boss."
When there is a song in the video, pause and sing what was sung.
Sing our goodbye song "The Music Time is Over."