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Looking to use Grade 1 Lesson 18A: Song-based lesson in your Grade 1 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Tempo, Beat, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Scale

You'll also cover the themes of: Classical

Grade 1 Lesson 18A: Song-based lesson

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing “Welcome to Music”
  2. Play Freeze Dance
  3. Echo Bobo
  4. Review “Icicles”
  5. Move to show how the notes go up and down in “Icicles”
  6. Do body percussion with “Winter” by Vivaldi
  7. Keep the beat with balloons or scarves while listening to “Winter” by Vivaldi
  8. Teach “Head and Shoulders”
  9. Learn the actions for “Head and Shoulders”
  10. Sing “Head and Shoulders” at different tempos
  11. Play a rhythm pattern using different tempos
  12. Teach “Miss Lucy”
  13. Learn the clapping pattern for “Miss Lucy”
  14. Optional: Illustrate a little book of the song “Miss Lucy”
  15. Sing “The Music Time is Over”

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 move to show up / down.
  • I can sing a song fast and slow.
  • I can keep a beat.

Sing "Welcome to Music"

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Song Used: Welcome to Music

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Play Freeze Dance

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Echo Bobo

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Practice Item Used: Bobo

Echo Bobo

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Review "Icicles"

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Song Used: Icicles

Listen to "Icicles" and show with arm motions how the notes go up and down. Sing the song, showing how the notes go. Reach up for high notes and down for low ones in line one. Show the stepwise motion of the notes in line two with alternating pointer fingers - left, right, left, right, etc. This is a good song to play for the students on step bells, a wall piano, or the body scale to show the direction of the melody and the high/low movement.

Move to show how the notes go up and down in "Icicles"

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Song Used: Icicles

Slow the video down with the gear tool so the students can move to show how the music goes up and down as the song plays.

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Do body percussion with "Winter" by Vivaldi

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Listening Selection Used: Largo from Concerto No. 4 in F minor (Winter),The Four Seasons

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Keep the beat with balloons or scarves while listening to "Winter" by Vivaldi

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Listening Selection Used: Largo from Concerto No. 4 in F minor (Winter),The Four Seasons

Move to "Winter" by Vivaldi with balloons or scarves.
My students loved keeping the beat with balloons. This may not be possible in your school if you have students with latex allergies. Another option would be to toss scarves to the beat - you could even pair up students and have them toss a scarf back and forth.

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Teach "Head and Shoulders"

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Song Used: Head and Shoulders

Touch the body part as you sing. Try the song faster! Another way to play this game is to leave out a word each time you sing. The first time you sing everything. The second time through, you leave out the word “toes” and just do the action. The third time you leave out the word “knees” and “toes” and just do the actions. Continue until the song is all actions and no singing. The last time, put all the parts back in, and sing it very quickly. When you do this, it helps to develop “inner hearing” - the ability to hear the song in your head.

Learn the actions for "Head and Shoulders"

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Song Used: Head and Shoulders

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Sing "Head and Shoulders" at different tempos

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Play a rhythm pattern using different tempos

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Teach "Miss Lucy"

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Song Used: Miss Lucy

Sing "Miss Lucy."

Learn the clapping pattern for "Miss Lucy"

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Song Used: Miss Lucy

After the students have sung it all the way through, teach them the clapping pattern: clap own hands, clap partner’s right hand, clap own hands, clap partner’s left hand.

The clapping pattern needs a lot of practice before you should try doing it with the song. Sing without accompaniment. If you use the recording remember that you can slow it down with the "gear" too

Teacher note: We don't have a kids demo for "Miss Lucy". If your students would like to see themselves on MusicplayOnline please review the submission requirements here: https://help.musicplay.ca/can-i-submit-a-kids-demo

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Optional: Illustrate a little book of the song "Miss Lucy"

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Song Used: Miss Lucy

Optional: Illustrate a little book of the song "Miss Lucy"
There are 2 versions available. One includes the illustrations, and the children only illustrate the cover. The other includes just the lyrics and the children illustrate it all. Choose the option that works with your students. Sending the little books home with students helps to support early literacy and beginning readers.

Sing "The Music Time is Over"

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Song Used: The Music Time is Over

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