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Looking to use PreK Lesson 2 in your PreK classroom?

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

PreK Lesson 2

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:
1.  “Time for Music”
2. Animal sounds warmup
3. “Balletmusick” by Mozart – keep the beat
4. Choose instruments from your classroom
5. Play the Instrument Quickly poem
6. “Play and Stop” – sing and play
7.  “Brandenburg Concerto, Bach” – play along with the music
8/9 “One, Two, Three, Four” – learn the poem and actions
10. Types of Voices interactive
11/12  “Alphabet Song” – sing the song (USA – Zee, Canada – Zed)
13.  Review “Three Little Fishies”
14/15 “Short Letter A” and “Alligator Alarm”
16/17 “Monkeys” – sing the song, do movements
18.  “Shake it Together”
19. Shake and jump and twist to the song “Shake it Together”.
20. “Skinnamarink” – sing our goodbye song

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to music.
  • I can say a poem with low, middle, high voices.
  • I can use my speaking, whisper, shouting, singing and thinking voices.

Sing "Time for Music"

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Song Used: Time for Music

Sing "Time for Music"

Sing "Time for Music".

Count the beats at the end of each verse.

Do the actions that are in the words of the song.

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Warmup your voice by doing an animal warmup

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Warmup your voice by doing an animal warmup

Warmup your voice by doing an animal warmup.

Think about which sounds are high and which sounds are low.

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Copy the teacher in the video.

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Copy the teacher in the video.

Copy the teacher in the video.

When you copy the teacher you are keeping a steady beat.

This is Ballettmusik by Mozart.

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What instruments do you have in the music room?

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What instruments do you have in the music room?

What instruments do you have in the music room? Do you have some of the instruments in the picture?

If you have class sets of instruments, choose one that you could give the students. (sticks or egg shakers are good)

Show them how it is held and played.

Play the Instrument Quickly poem

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Play the Instrument Quickly poem

Hand the instruments out. I like to have the students close their eyes while I hand out instruments as quickly as possible.
The second they open their eyes, play the instruments with the chant.
If you do this chant every time you hand out instruments, it not only manages behaviors and instantly engages kids, they get to explore the instrument right away.

Play along with the song, "Play and Stop"

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Song Used: Play and Stop

Play along with the song, "Play and Stop"

Play along with the song "Play and Stop".

Play when the music plays.

Stop when you hear the word "stop!"

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Play your instrument with music by Bach

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Song Used: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, J.S. Bach

Play your instrument with music by Bach

Play your instrument with music by Bach.

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Learn the poem "One, Two, Three, Four"

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Song Used: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4

Learn the poem "One, Two, Three, Four"

Learn the poem "One, Two, Three, Four".

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Learn the movements and learn about types of voices

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Song Used: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4

Learn the movements and learn about types of voices

Learn the movements and learn about types of voices by watching the kids demo.

Do the movements and say the poem with the teacher.

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Try different types of voices with the interactive activity

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Try different types of voices with the interactive activity

Try different types of voices with the interactive activity.

You'll do one kind of voice for every 2 lines of the poem.

Sing the ABCs - Americans (Zee)

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Song Used: Alphabet Song – Zee

Sing the ABCs - Americans (Zee)

Sing the ABCs.

Americans say Z "zee" - so, if you're from the USA, sing with this video!

(Canadians - you'll sing with the next video.)

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Sing the ABCs - Canadians (Zed)

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Song Used: Alphabet Song – Zed

Sing the ABCs - Canadians (Zed)

Sing the ABCs.

Canadians - you'll sing with the this video!

(If you're from the USA, you sing with the previous video)

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Review the "Three Little Fishies" fingerplay

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Song Used: Three Little Fishies

Review the "Three Little Fishies" fingerplay

Review the "Three Little Fishies" fingerplay.

Copy the actions that the teacher does.

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Review "Short Letter A"

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Song Used: A – Alligator Alarm

Review "Short Letter A"

Review "Short Letter A".

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Review the song "Alligator Alarm"

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Song Used: A – Alligator Alarm

Review the song "Alligator Alarm"

Review the song "Alligator Alarm".

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Review the song "Monkeys"

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Song Used: Monkeys

Review the song "Monkeys"

Review the song "Monkeys".

This song was written by April and Susan and celebrates one of our favorite animals that live in jungles and in zoos!

Can you make up movements to the song?

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Sing the song "Monkeys" and do the movements

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Song Used: Monkeys

Sing the song "Monkeys" and do the movements

Sing the song "Monkeys" and do the movements that you see the kids in the video doing.

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Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together"

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Song Used: Shake it Together

Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together"

Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together"

Listen and do the movements that the words suggest.

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Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together"

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Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together"

Shake and jump and twist to the song "Shake it Together".

Now watch the kids in the video.

Sing and move with them.

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Sing our closing song "Skinnamarink"

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

Sing our closing song "Skinnamarink"

Sing our closing song "Skinnamarink".

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