Grade 1 Back To School – Lesson 3
Teaching Procedures
Sing “Welcome, Welcome”
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!
Review the “Music Room Rules”
Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.
Review different instruments using the “Mystery Box”
Put 5-6 instruments in a box so the children can’t see what you're playing. Play it, and they identify the instrument. It’s a great way to introduce them to the timbre of unpitched instruments, and to help build their vocabulary as they learn the names of all the instruments!
Move to the Instruments!
Move the way the video tells you to move.
Play it again. Do you remember all the ways to move to the instruments?
Play along to “Play the Instruments Quickly”
Give out instruments and play along.
If you have them, give one group woods, one group metals and one group drums.
If switching instruments is possible, try to give students turns to play all three kinds of instruments.
Play along to “Play and Stop”
If you have them, give one group woods, one group metals and one group drums.
If switching instruments is possible, try to give students turns to play all three kinds of instruments.
Play along to “If You’re Happy”
Review “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: Read the story “How to Be a Friend”
Teach “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain”
Listen to the singer on the recording and just add actions the first time you sing this song. Try to remember all the actions as you go. As the song goes along the students will be able to join in the singing of all the words.
Learn the actions for “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain”
