PreK Extra April Lesson
Teaching Procedures
Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
Sing Time for Music with the lyrics video.
Count the beats at the end of each verse.
Count the beats out loud.
Think up new ways that you could keep a beat, and sing your new verses.
Numeracy: Counting is numeracy! Cut out 8 hearts and have children tap on the hearts as they count. Take 2 away. Have them count the hearts now - 1-2-3-4-5-6.
In a study at Northwestern University, researchers have linked the ability to keep a beat to reading and language skills.
Read more here: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2013/09/the-importance-of-keeping-the-beat/
Say the “Hello Beat Chant”
Review all the instruments using the “Mystery Box”
Review “Humpty Dumpty”
This familiar nursery rhyme is included so children can respond to beat, high/low with speech and with movement. Listen to the rhyme. Listen again and say the rhyme.
Do the actions while you say the “Humpty Dumpty” rhyme
Watch the video. In the demo video, the kids in the class are using egg shakers, but a stuffed toy works as well.
As you say the rhyme, bounce the stuffy on your lap.
Tell the children that Humpty Dumpty is an egg and ask them to tell you why he couldn’t be put back together again.
Invite them to say the poem and do the movements with you.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. - pretend to hold an egg (Humpty) and bounce it on your legs
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. - show the egg falling from legs to the floor
All the kings horses and all the kings men, - bounce on legs (quicker)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again. - bounce on legs
Review “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
Review the song. If you have manipulatives saved from the previous lesson, use manipulatives to do the "counting" in the song. If not, create actions or dramatize the song.
Review “Mm Ah Went the Little Green Frog”
Move to show high low
High Low Movement
Teaching Suggestions: This selection is included so children can respond to high and low with movement.
Play some of the selection moving your bear toy (or large stuffy) to the low parts and your mouse toy (or other small stuffy) 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.
Play the selection again and have your child move at a high level when the music is high and a low level when the music is low.
