PreK Extra May Lesson
Teaching Procedures
Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
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! Duplicate the beat strips in supporting resources and give one strip to each child.
Review different instruments using the “Mystery Box”
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. Instruments to use: triangle, sticks, finger cymbal, egg shakers, drum, frog guiro
Review to the poem “Five Little Kitties”
Review to the poem “Five Little Kitties”
Listen to the poem "Five Little Kitties". Say the poem with the recording.
Review the movement for “Five Little Kitties”
Review the movement for “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?
Say the poem and do the movements for “Five Little Kitties”
Review “Trot Old Joe”
Review “Trot Old Joe”
Sith stick horses, discuss which parts of the song were fast and slow.
Listen to “Wild Horseman”
Listen to “Wild Horseman”
Demonstrate the AABA form with a white and a brown horse.