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Looking to use Kindergarten Lesson 3 in your Kindergarten classroom?

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

You'll also cover the themes of: Building Character (SEL), Eras in Music, Classical

Kindergarten Lesson 3

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing “Welcome to School”
  2. Discuss How Tos and What ifs
  3. Say the “Make Me a Circle” chant
  4. Play the “Hello Circle Name Game”
  5. Review the “Music Room Rules”
  6. Review “Cookie Jar Chant”
  7. Review “This is my Speaking Voice”
  8. Review “1 – 2 – 3 – 4”
  9. Choose two kinds of voices and say the poem “1 – 2 – 3 – 4”
  10. Find ways to keep the beat with the music from “Vivace”
  11. Teach “A Smile Goes a Long, Long Way”
  12. Move to “Skateboard Rider”
  13. Echo Bobo
  14. Teach “Andy Pandy”
  15. Learn the movements for “Andy Pandy”
  16. Do the movements and sing “Andy Pandy”
  17. Show how the notes go higher and lower in “Andy Pandy”
  18. Listen to the story and sing “Andy Pandy”
  19. Sing “Skinnamarink”

Extensions

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to music.
  • I can echo melody patterns with Bobo.
  • I can use loud/quiet, high/low, fast/slow voices in a poem.

Sing “Welcome to School”

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Song Used: Welcome to School

Sing the echoes in the song.

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Discuss How Tos and What ifs

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Say the “Make Me a Circle” chant

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Play the “Hello 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.

Review the “Music Room Rules”

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Unit Used: Back to School

Read and Discuss the Music Room Rules.

Have the students give examples of good choices, being responsible, good manners, etc.

Extension: Give your students a piece of paper, and have them draw a picture of how they could follow one rule.

Review “Cookie Jar Chant”

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Song Used: Cookie Jar Chant

Practice names in your class with the Cookie Jar chant. Seat students in a circle and go around the circle.

Review “This is my Speaking Voice”

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Song Used: This is My Speaking Voice

Echo the teacher in the poem "This is my Speaking Voice".

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Review “1 - 2 - 3 - 4”

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Choose two kinds of voices and say the poem “1 - 2 - 3 - 4”

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Tool Used: Types of Voices

Types of Voices Interactive - review the poem from last week or try a new poem

Find ways to keep the beat with the music from "Vivace"

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Song Used: Vivace – Handel

Find ways to keep the beat with the music from "Vivace".

This is music written by Handel.

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Teach “A Smile Goes a Long, Long Way”

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Song Used: A Smile Goes a Long, Long Way

Teach "A Smile Goes a Long, Long Way".

Can you think of some movements to do with the song?

Try singing along.

When someone smiles at you, how does it make you feel?

How do you think others feel when you smile at them?

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Move to "Skateboard Rider"

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Song Used: Skateboard Rider

Move with the teacher and kids to "Skateboard Rider"
Can you sing the chorus?

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Echo Bobo

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

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Teach “Andy Pandy”

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

This song also provides opportunities for the students to explore different ways of moving, but in this case, following specific directions: down, up, in and out. If you’re doing this in the gym, give each student a hula hoop and have them perform the movements in (and out of) the hoop. You might play this as a game where the students change hoops each time they sing. In the music room, you could use big dots on the floor and have students change dots. This song is also included as reinforcement of the Week 1 lesson - following directions.

Learn the movements for “Andy Pandy”

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

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Do the movements and sing “Andy Pandy”

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

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Show how the notes go higher and lower in “Andy Pandy”

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

Use this song to show how the notes go high, middle, and low. Sing the song and show how the notes go with arm motions or use the body scale. If some students are unclear, have the students join hands and do this with hands joined.

Listen to the story and sing “Andy Pandy”

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Song Used: Andy Pandy

A story written around the song “Andy Pandy” is included here. Oral storytelling is an ancient tradition. Storytelling will stimulate the students’s imagination, enrich their vocabulary, create connections with the story teller, and help them to develop communication skills. Listeners become engaged, more so if the story teller (you) is entertaining. This story was written to include many repetitions of the song, to help the students memorize it and learn to sing it accurately. The song is repeated at faster and slower tempos, and louder and quieter so you can introduce these concepts.

When you come to the song in the story, if you are able to, sing the song accompanying it with a simple bordun on D and A or singing it without accompaniment, slowly or quickly, loudly or quietly as the story suggests. Invite the students to draw and color a picture of something that the story makes them think of. If you like, make the story into a big book. Dramatize the story. Your students will have fun acting this out.

Denise Tips: Stories can be told more than once. Every time my grandsons have a sleepover, I tell them the story of the three bears before we go to sleep. They’ve heard this story forty or fifty times, but they always want to hear it again. Be as entertaining a story teller as you can.

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Sing “Skinnamarink”

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

Sing our closing song, "Skinnamarink".

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