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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Dynamics, Tempo, Timbre of Unpitched Instruments, Timbre of Voices, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low)
You'll also cover the themes of: Alphabet Songs, Animal Songs, Eras in Music, Romantic, Birds
In this lesson, you will:
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.
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/
Give out egg shakers. Play the eggs quickly while chanting. Sing the hellos high or low, loud or quiet, fast or slow, sing and play on egg shakers.
Say the poem with eggs, then say again with finger motions. Ask the students if they want to say it fast or slow. Say the poem with motions. Try the poem with “magic lips” to help develop inner hearing.
I do - We do - You do
- use the interactive activity to model for your students how to create and perform a word rhythm composition
- for example, clap "carrots" and stomp "corn." Do you like it? Keep it. If not, try it another way.
- after modeling for students, give them the carrot/corn cards to create their own patterns.
Use the interactive to model how to create and perform word rhythms. Perform with body percussion (pat, clap, stomp), instruments or found sounds. Give the students a page of word rhythms to cut out and create and perform their own patterns.
Chickens like to eat corn. In Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, pretend to be a little chick that's trying to peck it's way out the egg. On long notes take a rest. At the end of the selection did the chick get out?
Move with stretchy band. Bounce to the beat. Lift the band up and down to show how the notes go higher and lower.
Introduce the letter song by showing the children the poster and telling them the story. Sing the phonics song, and teach the action song. Invite the children to dramatize the story and song.
Story:
Rockin’ Robin loved to listen to rock and roll. He would fly around all day listening to the sounds that came out of houses. He really liked to dig for worms near houses that played rock and roll. One day, Rockin’ Robin flew over a building when he heard some rockin’ music. It was a radio station that played rock and roll. He liked the music so much that he built a nest in the tree outside the radio station. He could rock and rap to the music on the radio all day.
The only problem with his new home was that it was all paved. There was no dirt where Rockin’ Robin could dig for worms. He thought he might have to move away.
The manager of the radio station noticed Rockin’ Robin rocking and rapping to the music. “That robin could be our new mascot,” he thought, but the manager realized that there weren’t any worms for Rockin’ Robin to eat.
The radio station paid for a bird feeder so Rockin’Robin wouldn’t have to dig for worms. Rockin’ Robin was very happy that he could stay in his nest by the radio station.
Watch and listen to the Letter R Song.
Play again and sing along.
Literacy: Learn letters and letter sounds with the Alphabet Action songs. These are included in Musicplay PreK and in these Online Music Lesson modules.
Watch and listen to the song "Rockin' Robin".
Play it again and sing along.
Watch the kids demo for the song "Rockin' Robin".
Pretend you are playing a guitar, and make up some moves to the music!