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Looking to use Grade 1 Lesson 20 in your Grade 1 classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Form, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Rondo, Time Signature

You'll also cover the themes of: Friendship, Eras in Music, Baroque, Romantic

Grade 1 Lesson 20

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing the echoes for “Welcome to Music”
  2. Keep the beat with “Gigue”
  3. Play the copycat game with “Gigue”
  4. Teach “Lunar New Year”
  5. Compose a word rhythm composition as a B section
  6. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Lunar New Year”
  7. Learn about the song “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”
  8. Teach “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”
  9. Read the poem for “Swan”
  10. Show the melodic contour while listening to “Swan”
  11. Teach “Rig a Jig Jig”
  12. Play the game with “Rig a Jig Jig”
  13. Is “Rig a Jig Jig” a stepping or skipping song?
  14. Sing “The Music Time is Over”

Extension:

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 create movement and move to the beat.
  • I can read rhythm and melody patterns.
  • I can describe rondo form.

Sing the echoes for “Welcome to Music”

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Song Used: Welcome to Music

Sing the echoes for “Welcome to Music.”

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Keep the beat with “Gigue”

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Listening Selection Used: Gigue from The Alchymist

Choose 4 student leaders and have them create movement to the beat.

The rest of the class copies.

View the kids demo to see how to play.

Then, play the audio and play copycat with the kids.

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Play the copycat game with "Gigue"

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Listening Selection Used: Gigue from The Alchymist

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Teach “Lunar New Year”

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Compose a word rhythm composition as a B section

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Unit Used: Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year worksheet package is linked in the supporting resources.

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Lunar New Year”

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Learn about the song “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”

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Song Used: Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

Read the slide to the students.

Teacher note: This song is a spiritual and contains religious themes. Please consider the needs of your students and community when deciding to use this song.

Teach “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”

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Song Used: Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

Teach "Michael, Row” by rote. This song may be familiar to your students. Discuss how music is used in different ways by people all over the world.

Read the poem for “Swan”

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Show the melodic contour while listening to “Swan”

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Listening Selection Used: “The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals

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Teach “Rig a Jig Jig”

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Song Used: Rig a Jig Jig

Teach song by rote. When the students know the song, teach one of the games.

Play the game with “Rig a Jig Jig”

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Song Used: Rig a Jig Jig

The students in the class form a circle (or two circles). The class sings the verse softly while the first student walks slowly around the circle looking for a partner. The first student chooses a partner after the words “a friend of mine I chanced to meet.” The singing becomes louder as the two students skip around the outside of the circle. At the next verse, they both walk alone and both choose new partners. Continue until all students in the class are chosen.

Another way to play the game is to have the students move freely looking for a partner as they sing the first two phrases. On the words “I chanced to meet”, they shake hands with their partner and snap four times on "Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho!"

Begin a clapping pattern:
Rig a jig jig (pat pat pat pat)
away we go (clap own hands, clap partner’s hands 3x)
Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho! (snap snap snap)

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Is “Rig a Jig Jig” a stepping or skipping song?

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Sing “The Music Time is Over”

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Song Used: The Music Time is Over

Sing "The Music Time is Over."

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