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Looking to use PreK Lesson 25 in your PreK classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Dynamics, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low), Scale

You'll also cover the themes of: Insects, Seasons, Spring

PreK Lesson 25

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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing the echoes for “It’s Music Time”
  2. Say the “Hello Beat Chant”
  3. Sing to Bobo
  4. Teach “Count to Seven”
  5. Learn the actions for “Count to Seven”
  6. Sing and do the actions for “Count to Seven”
  7. Optional: Read My Seven Book by Jane Belk Moncure
  8. Review “Bee Bee Bumblebee”
  9. Play the “Bee Bee Bumblebee” game
  10. Teach “Baby Bumblebee”
  11. Learn the movements for “Baby Bumblebee”
  12. Sing and do the actions for “Baby Bumblebee”
  13. Teach “On My Toe”
  14. Learn the movements to “On My Toes”
  15. Sing “On My Toe” and show the body scale
  16. Optional: Color the bee and make a bee responder
  17. Listen to “Flight of the Bumblebee” and move your responder to show how the bee goes
  18. Review the fingerplay “Here is the Beehive”
  19. Review “I Like Leprechauns”
  20. Optional: Read the story “How to Catch a Leprechaun”
  21. Sing “Skinnamarink”

Extensions:

Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to music.
  • I can show how sounds go high and low.
  • I can respond to music with movement.

Sing the echoes for “It’s Music Time”

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Song Used: It’s Music Time

Sing and move to the music.

Give students beat strips and have them point to the beat as they sing.

Beat Strips are in supporting resources.

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Say the “Hello Beat Chant”

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Song Used: Hello Beat Chant

Sing hellos in different ways, pat the beat or play on sticks.

Sing to Bobo

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Practice Item Used: Bobo

Echo what Bobo sings.

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Teach “Count to Seven”

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Song Used: Count to Seven

Count and move!

In this song, the singer counts to seven or to three.

Sing or play the song for the children and create movements to the rhythm of the words. Invite the children to give you ideas of what kind of movements you could do. You could pat your legs, tap your head, touch your nose, clap your hands or if you are standing you could twist, step in place, bounce up and down, dance, or raise your knees. You could use locomotor movements such as stepping, jumping, stomping, tip-toeing, or sliding. You could play instruments to the rhythm of the words.

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Learn the actions for “Count to Seven”

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Song Used: Count to Seven

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Sing and do the actions for “Count to Seven”

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Song Used: Count to Seven

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Optional: Read My Seven Book by Jane Belk Moncure

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Song Used: Count to Seven

Read the story to the children. Each time you're asked to count something in the story, sing the numbers to one of the melodies used in the song. If you introduce the melodies in the song by reading the book, the song will be easier for the children to learn.

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Review “Bee Bee Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Bee Bee Bumblebee

Accompany the song with a simple bordun on F and C on Orff instruments or Boomwhackers.

Beat Chart: Model for the children how to tap the beat on a beat chart. This
may seem simple, but the children need to see a model, and often need practice to successfully tap the beat on a beat chart. The beat chart is available in the supporting resources.

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Play the “Bee Bee Bumblebee” game

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Song Used: Bee Bee Bumblebee

Form a circle. Have each of the children hold hands out. Tap each of the children’s hands in turn with bumblebee puppet or toy. When you come to the last child, give the child the bumblebee puppet and he “flies” around the circle buzzing high and low, moving the bee puppet to show the high and low sounds. If you have a very small class you may be able to give every child a turn to be the “bee.” If you have a larger class, you may want to have four bumblebee toys that you can give to four children. Give them out on beats 4, 8, 12 and 16. Then all four fly around the outside of the circle at the same time. Have the children sit down when they’ve had a turn. If you don’t have bumblebee toys, make pipe cleaner finger puppets.

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Teach “Baby Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Baby Bumblebee

Teach the song “Baby Bumblebee”. Sing or play a phrase and have students echo. Combine phrases. Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.

Learn the movements for “Baby Bumblebee”

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Song Used: Baby Bumblebee

Watch the movements and copy the movements to the song.

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Sing and do the actions for “Baby Bumblebee”

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Sing and do the actions for "Baby Bumblebee".

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Teach “On My Toe”

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Song Used: On my Toe

Teach the song “On my toe there was a bee”. Sing or play a phrase and have students echo. Combine phrases. Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.

Learn the movements to “On My Toes”

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Song Used: On my Toe

Copy the movements in the video.

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Sing “On My Toe” and show the body scale

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Song Used: On my Toe

Sing and move to show the body scale.

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Optional: Color the bee and make a bee responder

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Listen to “Flight of the Bumblebee” and move your responder to show how the bee goes

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Song Used: Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Color and glue the bee picture to a craft stick.

Move the bee to show how the music goes higher and lower.

If you don't make the responders, pinch thumb and pointer finger together and pretend that is a bee, and move your fingers to show how the music goes.

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Review the fingerplay “Here is the Beehive”

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Song Used: Here Is the Beehive

Say the fingerplay and do the movements.

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Review "I Like Leprechauns"

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Song Used: I Like Leprechauns

Sing or play the song for the children and have them sing the echo parts. After hearing the “together” part of the song when all sing, the students may be able to join in. Create actions for this song.

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Optional: Read the story "How to Catch a Leprechaun"

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Song Used: I Like Leprechauns

Many school libraries will have this story.

Every 2 pages, sing a refrain: "I like leprechauns, on St. Patrick's day."

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Sing “Skinnamarink”

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

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