PreK Lesson 31
StartBeat, Timbre of Unpitched Instruments, Melodic Direction (high-middle-low)Themes(s):
Alphabet Songs, Animal Songs, Frogs
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Introduction
In this lesson, you will:
- Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
- Say the “Hello Beat Chant”
- Create a conversation between Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse
- Move to show high and low
- Listen to examples of high and low
- Play the High Low Game
- Teach “Humpty Dumpty”
- Do the actions while you say the “Humpty Dumpty” rhyme
- Optional: Read the storybook “Froggie Gets Dressed”
- Review “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
- Review “Mm Ah Went the Little Green Frog”
- Read the “Sneaky Snake” story
- Teach “Letter S”
- Teach “Sneaky Snake”
- Sing “Sneaky Snake” and copy the movements
- Optional: Practice printing the letter S
- 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 move and speak to show high and low.
Teaching Procedures
Sing the echoes for “Time for Music”
Copy LinkSay the “Hello Beat Chant”
Copy LinkSay the chant with the frog guiro if available. Use high and low voices.
Create a conversation between Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse
Copy LinkFind 2 stuffed animals - one large and one small.
Have a conversation between them, using a low voice for the large and a high voice for the small.
Watch the Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse conversation on the video.
Move to show high and low
Copy LinkHigh Low Movement
Teaching Suggestions: This selection is included so children can respond to high and low with movement.
Play some of the selection moving your bear toy (or large stuffy) to the low parts and your mouse toy (or other small stuffy) to the high parts. Then, invite the children to move like Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse. You will be able to observe if the students are responding accurately to low and high.
To assess, have them sit in place with their eyes closed, and move hands like Brown Bear and Squeaky Mouse to show when the music is low and when the music is higher.
Play the selection again and have your child move at a high level when the music is high and a low level when the music is low.
Listen to examples of high and low
Copy LinkListen to the examples.
Pause the video and tell if they were high or low.
Play the High Low Game
Copy LinkTeach “Humpty Dumpty”
Copy LinkThis familiar nursery rhyme is included so children can respond to beat, high/low with speech and with movement. Listen to the rhyme. Listen again and say the rhyme.
Do the actions while you say the “Humpty Dumpty” rhyme
Copy LinkWatch the video. In the demo video, the kids in the class are using egg shakers, but a stuffed toy works as well.
As you say the rhyme, bounce the stuffy on your lap.
Tell the children that Humpty Dumpty is an egg and ask them to tell you why he couldn’t be put back together again.
Invite them to say the poem and do the movements with you.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. - pretend to hold an egg (Humpty) and bounce it on your legs
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. - show the egg falling from legs to the floor
All the kings horses and all the kings men, - bounce on legs (quicker)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again. - bounce on legs
Optional: Read the storybook “Froggie Gets Dressed”
Copy LinkSing “Frrroooggggyyyy!” on so-mi each time it occurs in the story. Play “flop, flop, flop” on frog guiro.
Review “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
Copy LinkReview the song. If you have manipulatives saved from the previous lesson, use manipulatives to do the "counting" in the song. If not, create actions or dramatize the song
Review “Mm Ah Went the Little Green Frog
Copy LinkDo the movements with the song.
Read the “Sneaky Snake” story
Copy LinkListen to the Letter S story and learn the song.
If you prefer, you can read the story yourself and teach the song by rote.
Story:
Sneaky Snake lived in the sand. He was the same color as sand, so he was very hard to see. When kids came to the beach to play in the sand, he’d tease them saying, “Sss, sss, says the snake, sitting in the sand. Sss, sss, says the snake, find me if you can.” The kids could hear the “sss, sss” but they couldn’t see the snake. Some of the small children were scared.
Sam was a big kid and he wasn’t scared of snakes. He sat in the sand playing. He had something with him to scare the snake. When Sneaky Snake said, “Sss, sss, says the snake, sitting in the sand. Sss, sss, says the snake, find me if you can,” Sam got out his squirt gun and sprayed water where he heard the sound coming from.
Sneaky Snake didn’t like being wet. He slid to a new spot on the beach and didn’t scare the kids again.
Teach “Letter S”
Copy LinkTeach “Sneaky Snake”
Copy LinkSing the Sneaky Snake song.
Optional: Practice printing the letter S
Copy LinkIf you have a printer, print the worksheet.
If you don't have a printer, practice letter S on a piece of paper.
Sing “Sneaky Snake” and copy the movements
Copy LinkWatch the kids demo video of Sneaky Snake.
Play the video again, and try dramatizing the song with the kids.
Sing “Skinnamarink”
Copy LinkSing our Goodbye Song "Skinnamarink".