Play Freeze Dance with the Music

Move to the music when it plays.

When the music stops, freeze!

Your teacher will stop and start the music and will try to catch you moving after it stops!

Teach “Rain on the Green Grass”

“Rain on the Green Grass” is a reading song. Have the students read the rhythms.

Have the students read the melody using solfa, or if you don’t teach solfa, sing the melody to them, showing the melodic contour with arm motions.

Learn the game with “Rain on the Green Grass”

Play a game with the song. Stand in a single circle. While you sing, pass a mini umbrella around the circle. In the umbrella, place rhythm cards using rhythms that you are currently working on. The student who has the umbrella at the end of the song is to pick a rhythm from the umbrella and clap it for the class. The class should clap it back. The flashcards can be
found in the Printables section.

Sing and play the game with “Rain on the Green Grass”

Sort the rhythms for “Rain on the Green Grass”

Create new verses for “Rain on the Green Grass”

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Rain on the Green Grass”

Teach the Orff arrangement for "Rain on the Green Grass." If you don't have Orff instruments, the students could create their own accompaniment or create rhythmic or melodic ostinatos to accompany this song.

Ask the students to think of ways to make a sound like falling rain. They might try snapping fingers, patting legs or two finger clapping. Explore and try out all the sounds that your students suggest. Ask them if they can think of an instrument that might sound like falling rain. Try out any instruments that the students suggest. Introduce the song with rain sounds and/or use the rain sounds as a B section between repetitions of the song.

Review “Recycle”

Review the song “Recycle”.

Have you created actions to go with the song?

Earth Day is April 22nd.

Discuss what things you could recycle. Are there ideas in the song that you could do?

Review “Garbage”

Review the song “Garbage”

Optional: Create an Earth Day Poem

Watch the Intro Video for “Butterfly” by Grieg

Can you move your finger like a butterfly?

Can you hear and move the way the music goes higher and lower?

Optional Activity 1: Color and Create Butterfly Finger Puppets to Move to “Butterfly”

Optional Activity 1: Color and cut out finger puppets to move to the music in activity 10, "Butterfly".

Optional Activity 2: Color and Draw How the Butterfly Goes

Color your butterfly while you listen to the music.

With a pencil, draw how you think the butterfly is going.

If the butterfly stops to rest, you can start over.

Sing “The Music Time Is Over”