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Looking to use Grade 1 Lesson 26 in your Grade 1 classroom?

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

You'll also cover the themes of: Animal Songs, Insects, Spring, Eras in Music, Romantic

Grade 1 Lesson 26

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Perform Rhythms to “Welcome to Music”
  2. Echo St. Patrick’s Day Bobo
  3. Keep the beat or play freeze dance with the music
  4. Review “Lucky Leprechaun”
  5. Read the poem “Here is the Beehive”
  6. Teach the fingerplay “Here is the Beehive”
  7. Echo sing do-mi-so in F Major
  8. Review “Bee Bee Bumblebee”
  9. Optional: Use a stretchy band while singing “Bee Bee Bumblebee”
  10. Sing and play the game with “Bee Bee Bumblebee”
  11. Option 1: Name the Solfa Notes in the Song
  12. Option 2: Name the Pitch Letter Names of the Notes
  13. Teach “Eensy Weensy Spider”
  14. Learn the actions for “Eensy Weensy Spider”
  15. Sing and do the action for “Eensy Weensy Spider”
  16. Play the “Up, Down, or Same” game
  17. Move with Ribbons or Scarves to Show High/Low in “Personages with Long Ears”
  18. Watch the Animated Listening Map for “Personages with Long Ears”
  19. Optional: Do a Coloring Page on “Personages with Long Ears”
  20. Review “Kinderpolka”
  21. 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 sing and move to music.
  • I can read rhythm and melody patterns.
  • I can listen and respond to music.
  • I can move to show high and low.

Perform Rhythms to “Welcome to Music”

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Song Used: Welcome to Music

Echo clap the Rhythms in “Welcome to Music.”

The teacher claps the first pattern, and students clap the second.
Some of the patterns are new for Grade 1, so echo clap them.

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Echo St. Patrick's Day Bobo

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Practice Item Used: Bobo

Echo the patterns that Bobo sings.

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Keep the beat or play freeze dance with the music

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Unit Used: St. Patrick’s Day

Keep the beat
Option 1 - invite the children to find ways to keep the beat with the music.
They could pat (lap, tummy, head, nose etc), clap or stomp

Option 2 - Play freeze dance with the music
Play the track and have the children move to the music.
Pause and the students freeze in place.
If you catch anyone moving they sit down and become "spotters"

Option 3 - choose instruments and play along with the music

Review “Lucky Leprechaun”

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Song Used: Lucky Leprechaun

Invite the students to tell you what they know about leprechauns. (if too many want to share, invite them to share with a neighbor)

Keep the beat as you listen to the song. The teacher could be the leader, or choose leaders from the class and have all copy the leader.

Play again and sing along.

Adapt the game:
A section: March in place
B section: do a “sailors horn pipe” - fold arms and jig in place

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Read the poem “Here is the Beehive”

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Song Used: Here Is the Beehive

Say the poem and demonstrate the actions for them. Ask the children if there were parts of the poem that you said in a quiet voice (hidden away where nobody sees). Discuss why you might say that part of the poem quietly. Invite the children to say the poem and do the actions with you.

Dramatize the poem. Choose five children to be the “bees” and have the other children make a circle around them to be the “hive” (or cover the five children with a large scarf). Say the poem, and when the bees come out of the hive the children “fly” out and around the room, buzzing like bees.

Teach the fingerplay “Here is the Beehive”

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Song Used: Here Is the Beehive

Here is the Beehive, (hold one fist in front of you)
But where are the bees? (outstretch other hand with palm up)
Hidden away where nobody sees. (cover fist with your hand)
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive. (look out (hand to forehead))
One, two, three, four, five (show fingers, one at a time)

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Echo sing do-mi-so in F Major

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Practice Item Used: do mi so (d m s)

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Review “Bee Bee Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Bee Bee Bumblebee

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Optional: Use a stretchy band while singing “Bee Bee Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Bee Bee Bumblebee

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Sing and play the game with “Bee Bee Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Bee Bee Bumblebee

Play the game or use a stretchy band.

Game directions: Form a circle. Traditionally this is played with the students sitting in circle, cross legged with knees touching. A bee is passed to a neighbor’s lap on the beat. No one can miss their lap or miss anyone in the circle. Everyone keeps the beat by tapping as the bee goes around in the circle. The student who has the bee at the end of the song is “out.” This is quite difficult for students to do successfully. An easier way to play the game is to have all students stand up in a circle with hands outstretched, palms up. Choose one student to be the “beat keeper.” That student takes the bee, and touches each student on the outstretched hands, on the beat. If you are touched with the bee on the word “out,” you’re out and sit down.

Denise Tip: I found two different bees to use for this game. One bee was a really big stuffed one. We called this bee “Buzzy” and he sang the Bumblebee song in a low voice. The other bee was a really tiny fabric appliqué. We called the tiny bee “Buzzina” and she sang in a very high voice. Each time a racer was “out” they took a different bee, so we sang the song each time in a contrasting voice. Switching registers like this has helped several of my students to find their singing voices. The big jump from low voice to high voice made them aware of where their head voice was.

You can also use “Bee Bee Bumblebee” to select racers. Pound fists or tap shoulders of one student per beat. The student selected on “you” is racer one. The student opposite will also race. They speed walk around the circle back to their own place. The first one to reach their place wins. They should then sit down so you know they’ve had turns.

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Option 1: Name the Solfa Notes in the Song

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Option 2: Name the Pitch Letter Names of the Notes

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Teach “Eensy Weensy Spider”

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Song Used: Eensy Weensy Spider

Sing and move to the song.

This will be familiar to many children.

This is a good time to review high-middle-low and to sing using high-middle-low.

Learn the actions for “Eensy Weensy Spider”

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Song Used: Eensy Weensy Spider

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Sing and do the action for “Eensy Weensy Spider”

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Song Used: Eensy Weensy Spider

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Play the “Up, Down, or Same” game

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Move with Ribbons or Scarves to Show High/Low in "Personages with Long Ears"

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Listening Selection Used: “Personages with Long Ears” from Carnival of the Animals

Move with ribbons or scarves to show high/low.

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Watch the Animated Listening Map for "Personages with Long Ears"

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Listening Selection Used: “Personages with Long Ears” from Carnival of the Animals

Follow the listening map.

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Optional: Do a Coloring Page on "Personages with Long Ears"

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Listening Selection Used: “Personages with Long Ears” from Carnival of the Animals

Coloring page shows the instrument used and highlights the concepts: high/low and loud/quiet.
The coloring page includes a donkey, and a music critic.
Some people thought that the composer was imagining that music critics were donkeys when he wrote this piece.

There is also a mini-book of the enter Carnival of the Animals which will save some paper.

Review “Kinderpolka”

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Unit Used: Grades 1 and 2 Dances

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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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