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Looking to use Kindergarten Lesson 21 in your Kindergarten classroom?

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

You'll also cover the themes of: Food Songs, Transportation, Friendship

Kindergarten Lesson 21

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing the echoes in “Welcome to School”
  2. Echo Valentine Bobo
  3. Echo the instrument rhythms
  4. Teach “Listen to Me Play”
  5. Sort unpitched instruments into families
  6. Move to Body Percussion Fun!
  7. Teach “I Like Valentines” (PreK)
  8. Do the actions for “I Like Valentines”
  9. Make quiet and loud patterns
  10. Teach “The More We Get Together” (PreK)
  11. Do the actions for “The More We Get Together”
  12. Review “Chew Chew”
  13. Review “Page’s Train”
  14. Do the actions for “Page’s Train”
  15. Is the music fast or slow?
  16. Sing and move to “Skinnamarink”

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 read rhythm patterns (word rhythms).
  • I can show loud and quiet.

Sing the echoes in “Welcome to School”

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Song Used: Welcome to School

Sing the echoes in “Welcome to School”.

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Echo Valentine Bobo

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Practice Item Used: Bobo

Echo what Bobo sings.

Invite students to make up patterns and have the class echo.

Students could to make their own "Bobo."

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Echo the instrument rhythms

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Practice Item Used: Prepare Rhythm

Echo the rhythms.

If you have access to instruments, create new patterns and say the word rhythms.

Instrument Cards are included in the resources above.

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Teach “Listen to Me Play”

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Song Used: Listen to Me Play

This song is included to have students begin to identify the rhythm instruments by their sound, or timbre. Have the students listen to the instrument. Pause the audio during the rest. Ask the students to identify the instrument that was played. Start the audio again and listen to the next instrument.

The instruments that are used are as follows:
1. claves
2. triangle
3. sandpaper blocks
4. cowbell
5. hand drum
6. jingle bells

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Sort unpitched instruments into families

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Move to Body Percussion Fun!

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Song Used: The More We Get Together

Try the new body percussion play along!

Teacher Note: If this is too fast, use the gear wheel tool to slow down the video.

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Teach “I Like Valentines”

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Song Used: I Like Valentines

Invite the children to do the movements with you while you sing the song. Sing it again, and invite the children to sing the echo parts. Finally, teach them the last phrase and tell them to sing it each time it occurs.

Do the actions for “I Like Valentines”

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Song Used: I Like Valentines

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Make quiet and loud patterns

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Tool Used: Loud and Quiet

In this activity, you'll make quiet and loud patterns, then clap them.
Try clapping them with music.

Explore some of the poems in the activity!

If you would like to use this as a center or as an activity for small groups, the dynamics cards are given in resources above.

Teach “The More We Get Together”

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Song Used: The More We Get Together

This is a song to encourage friendship and to practice the names of your class. When the singer leaves a space, insert the names of the children in your class.

Do the actions for “The More We Get Together”

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Song Used: The More We Get Together

Create actions to accompany the song. The actions could be as simple as swaying left and right on phrases 1, 2 and 4. On phrase 3, motion “out” for “your friends” and motion “to self” for “my friends.”

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Review “Chew Chew”

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Song Used: Chew Chew

The song “Chew Chew” is an all-time favorite song to practice using fast and slow. Teach the song by rote. Discuss why the song goes faster and slower. Discuss with your students why it really is important to chew your food. Create movements.

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Review “Page’s Train” 

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Song Used: Page’s Train

Use the song to practice fast and slow. Choose eight students to be tunnels. These eight students pair up and form a tunnel by holding hands with their arms stretched up. Have the other students line up, and move around the room and through the tunnel like a train. The teacher could be the leader of the train, or you could choose a student to be the leader. When moving fast with students, it is easier to move if the students don’t join up - just have them chug their arms like a train. Ask students which parts of the song were slow and fast.

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Do the actions for “Page’s Train”

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Song Used: Page’s Train

Choose eight students to be tunnels. These eight students pair up and form a tunnel by holding hands with their arms stretched up. Have the other students line up, and move around the room and through the tunnel like a train. The teacher could be the leader of the train, or you could choose a student to be the leader. When moving fast with students, it is easier to move if the students don’t join up - just have them chug their arms like a train.

Teacher note: We don't have a kids demo for "Page's Train". If your students would like to see themselves on MusicplayOnline please review the submission requirements here: https://help.musicplay.ca/can-i-submit-a-kids-demo

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Is the music fast or slow?

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Game Used: Fast or Slow

Play the Fast/Slow game.

Sing and move to “Skinnamarink”

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

Sing and move to “Skinnamarink”.

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