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Looking to use Grade 2 Lesson 1 in your Grade 2 classroom?

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

You'll also cover the themes of: Transportation

Grade 2 Lesson 1

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing the Echoes in “Welcome to Music”
  2. Play the Circle Name Game
  3. Discuss How Tos and What Ifs
  4. Teach the “Music Room Rules”
  5. Play along with rhythms
  6. Echo Bobo
  7. Teach “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  8. Learn the game with “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  9. Play the game and sing “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  10. Learn about the beat in music
  11. Practice keeping a beat with “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  12. Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  13. Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  14. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”
  15. Play Instrument with “Ridin’ That New River Train”
  16. Play Beat or No Beat
  17. Optional: Complete the All About Me Worksheet
  18. 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 the beat.

Sing the Echoes in “Welcome to Music”

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Song Used: Welcome to Music

Sing the echoes in "Welcome to Music".

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Play the Circle Name Game

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Unit Used: Back to School

This game is a fun way to learn the names of the students and to get to know each other.

In this game, pat a steady beat. Pat-pat - then gesture with hands out 2 times.
When the hands go "out" you say your name.

Say names, favorite food, a sport they like, someplace they went in the summer etc.

Discuss How Tos and What Ifs

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Unit Used: Back to School

Discuss procedures with your students.
(If you started in August, skip ahead)

Teach the “Music Room Rules”

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Unit Used: Back to School

Review or teach the Music Room Rules
Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.

Play along with rhythms

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Listen to the rhythm.

Then echo clap what you heard.

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Echo solfa patterns

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Practice Item Used: mi so (m s)

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Teach “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Song Used: Engine, Engine Number Nine

This song is useful for reviewing or teaching steady beat, having students distinguish between beat and rhythm, and labeling quarter notes and eighth notes. ta and ti-ti or the rhythm names that you use. Teach by rote.

The process of labeling beat and rhythm is explained in detail for this song. This same process should be used with more than one reading song. Students may have been taught how to label beat and rhythm in first grade, but it is necessary to review and reinforce this important concept.

Learn the game with “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Song Used: Engine, Engine Number Nine

This is a follow-the-leader game. The students form a line like cars in a train. The leader decides on an action and the rest of the students must copy that action. At the end of the song, the leader goes to the back of the line and the second in line becomes the leader. If you have a train whistle, blow it at the end of the song.

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Play the game and sing “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Song Used: Engine, Engine Number Nine

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Learn about the beat in music

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Practice keeping a beat with "Engine, Engine Number Nine"

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Song Used: Engine, Engine Number Nine

Activity 1 - point to the beats as you sing the song
Activity 2 - audiation or inner hearing activity.

Option 1: Complete the solfa challenge for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Option 2: Complete the note name challenge for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Engine, Engine Number Nine”

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Song Used: Engine, Engine Number Nine

1. Have the students create an introduction to the song using instruments that sound like a train.

2. Have the students create 8 beat patterns using the words “chugga” and “choo.” For example: Chugga Chugga Choo Choo Chugga Chugga Choo rest
Have them play the patterns on body percussion or non-pitched instruments, or improvise melodies. Use the patterns as an introduction or an interlude between repetitions of the song

Play Instrument with “Ridin’ That New River Train”

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Song Used: Ridin’ That New River Train

Play instruments with the song "Ridin' that New River Train".

Play the video again and sing along.

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Play Beat or No Beat

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Optional: Complete the All About Me Worksheet

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Sing “The Music Time is Over”

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Song Used: The Music Time is Over

Sing the echoes in our closing song, "The Music Time Is Over".

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