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Looking to use PreK Extra May Lesson in your PreK classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Form, Tempo, Timbre of Unpitched Instruments

You'll also cover the themes of: Animal Songs

PreK Extra May Lesson

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
  2. Review different instruments using the “Mystery Box”
  3. Warm Up Your Voice!
  4. Say Animal Rhythms
  5. Review to the poem “Five Little Kitties”
  6. Review the movement for “Five Little Kitties”
  7. Say the poem and do the movements for “Five Little Kitties”
  8. Review “Trot Old Joe”
  9. Listen to “Wild Horseman”
  10. Review “Old Gray Cat”
  11. Review the game for “Old Gray Cat”
  12. Sing and play the game “Old Gray Cat”
  13. Sing “Skinnamarink”

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to music.
  • I can perform, move, and respond to fast/slow.
  • I can identify different instrument timbres.

Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”

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Song Used: 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! Duplicate the beat strips in supporting resources and give one strip to each child.

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Review different instruments using the “Mystery Box”

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Song Used: 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. Instruments to use: triangle, sticks, finger cymbal, egg shakers, drum, frog guiro

Warm Up Your Voice!

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Practice Item Used: Warm Ups

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Say Animal Rhythms

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Practice Item Used: Warm Ups

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Review to the poem “Five Little Kitties”

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Song Used: Five Little Kitties

Listen to the poem "Five Little Kitties". Say the poem with the recording.

Review the movement for “Five Little Kitties”

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Song Used: Five Little Kitties

Watch the kids demo video of five little kitty.

Can you act out the Five Little Kitties poem like the kids in the video?

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Say the poem and do the movements for “Five Little Kitties”

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Song Used: Five Little Kitties

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Review “Trot Old Joe”

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Song Used: Trot Old Joe

Sith stick horses, discuss which parts of the song were fast and slow.

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Listen to “Wild Horseman”

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Song Used: Wild Horseman

Demonstrate the AABA form with a white and a brown horse.

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Review “Old Gray Cat”

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Review the game for “Old Gray Cat”

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Song Used: Old Gray Cat

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Sing and play the game “Old Gray Cat”

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Song Used: Old Gray Cat

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Sing “Skinnamarink”

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

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