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Looking to use Grade 2 Lesson 30 in your Grade 2 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: Insects, Seasons, Environment, Spring, Eras in Music, Late Romantic

Grade 2 Lesson 30

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Do Body Percussion with “Welcome to School”
  2. Play Freeze Dance with the Music
  3. Teach “Rain on the Green Grass”
  4. Learn the game with “Rain on the Green Grass”
  5. Sing and play the game with “Rain on the Green Grass”
  6. Sort the rhythms for “Rain on the Green Grass”
  7. Create new verses for “Rain on the Green Grass”
  8. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Rain on the Green Grass”
  9. Review “Recycle”
  10. Review “Garbage”
  11. Optional: Create an Earth Day Poem
  12. Watch the Intro Video for “Butterfly” by Grieg
  13. Optional Activity 1: Color and Create Butterfly Finger Puppets to Move to “Butterfly”
  14. Optional Activity 2: Color and Draw How the Butterfly Goes
  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 perform and create rhythm and melody patterns.

Do Body Percussion with “Welcome to School”

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Song Used: Welcome to School

Do body percussion with the song "Welcome to School".

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Play Freeze Dance with the Music

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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”

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Song Used: 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”

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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.

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

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Song Used: Rain on the Green Grass

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Sort the rhythms for “Rain on the Green Grass”

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Create new verses for “Rain on the Green Grass”

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

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Song Used: 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”

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Song Used: 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?

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Review “Garbage”

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Song Used: Garbage

Review the song “Garbage”

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Optional: Create an Earth Day Poem

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Watch the Intro Video for “Butterfly” by Grieg

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Listening Selection Used: “Butterfly” from Lyric Pieces III

Can you move your finger like a butterfly?

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

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

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Listening Selection Used: “Butterfly” from Lyric Pieces III

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

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Listening Selection Used: “Butterfly” from Lyric Pieces III

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”

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Song Used: The Music Time is Over

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