Pre K Lesson 33
Teaching Procedures
Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
Create new ways to keep a beat and sing the new verses. Sing unaccompanied or accompany with a ukulele.
Review different instruments using the “Mystery Box”
Talk about timbre of instruments. Ask the students if the sound of the instrument is high or low - this is difficult for PreK. Optional instruments to use: triangle, sticks, finger cymbal, egg shakers, drum, frog guiro
Review “Mm Ahh Went the Little Green Frog”
Play the opening sound on step bells or glockenspiel, and talk about which is the low sound and which is the high sound.
Review “High and Low Movement”
Introduce the selection by introducing Brown Bear (low) and Squeaky Mouse (high). You can use puppets or stuffed animals or even use pictures. Make up a conversation between Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse using a very low voice for Brown Bear and a high voice for Squeaky Mouse. Ask the students to tell you if Brown Bear has a low or a high voice. Some will get it and some won’t. (It will help, if you’ve done the Hello Beat chant with the students using high and low voices in previous classes.) Tell the students that Brown Bear has a low voice and Squeaky Mouse has a high voice.
Play some of the selection moving your bear toy to the low parts and your mouse toy to the high parts. Then, invite the children to move like Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse. You will be able to observe if the students are responding accurately to low and high.
To assess, have them sit in place with their eyes closed, and move hands like Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse to show when the music is low and when the music is higher.
Review the poem “There was a Little Turtle”
Listen to the poem "There was a Little Turtle".
Listen to it again and say some of the words.
Listen again and say the words quietly.
Listen again and say the words LOUDLY.
Review the fingerplay movements for “There was a Little Turtle”
Say the poem and do the fingerplay for “There was a Little Turtle”
Listen to “Smooth and Separated”
Listen to the music and imagine a turtle moving to the music.
When the turtle is on the rocks, he is climbing and its hard for him!
When the turtle is swimming, he swims smooth and easy through the water.
In this music, listen for when the turtle is climbing on the rocks. The music is short and separated.
Listen for when the turtle is swimming, the music is smooth and flowing.
Read the “Leo the Lion” story
Watch Mrs. Herro to hear the story and learn the songs.
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Download the PDF from supporting resources and read the story yourself to your students. Then teach the songs by rote yourself.
Teach “Leo the Lion”
Listen to "Leo the Lion".
Sing about Leo the Lion.
Create movements to the music
Optional: Practice printing the letter L
Practice print L and draw pictures of L words.
If you have a printer, you can print the L worksheets.
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Save paper, and practice printing L and drawing some things that start with the letter L.
Review “Play the Instruments Quickly”
Give out castanets to each of the children and demonstrate how to play them.
Review “Five Little Ducks”
Sing the song and play the castanets on all the “quacks”. Play “quack” pattern and have the children echo.
