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Looking to use PreK Lesson 7 in your PreK classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat

You'll also cover the themes of: Alphabet Songs

PreK Lesson 7

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Concepts(s):
Beat
Themes(s):
Alphabet Songs
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Introduction

In this lesson, you will:

  1. Sing “Time for Music”
  2. Optional: Trace and Color the beats
  3. Flashlight vocal warmup
  4. Play Freeze Dance with the music
  5. Learn the poem “Little Miss Muffet”
  6. Learn the movements for “Little Miss Muffet”
  7. Listen to “Spider on the Floor”
  8. Sing “Spider on the Floor”
  9. Print and color, or draw your own spider to use in the song
  10. Review “Eensy Weensy Spider”
  11. Sing the Letter C song
  12. Sing “Cool Cat”
  13. Do the movements for the song “Cool Cat”
  14. Listen to “Bony Skeletons”
  15. Copy the movements for “Bony Skeletons”
  16. Listen and participate in the Mortimer story
  17. Sing our closing song: “Skinnamarink”

Extensions:

  • Way Up High in the Apple Tree – add glissando on the glockenspiel and invite the students to think of instruments for the rest of the poem
  • Mystery Box – use the instruments you’ve introduced so far

Objectives

  • I can sing and move to the beat.
  • I can create new verses and movements.

Sing "Time for Music"

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Song Used: Time for Music

Sing "Time for Music".

Can you think of new ways to keep a beat?

Make up new verses and movements!

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Optional: Trace and Color the beats

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Song Used: Time for Music

Trace and Color the beats.
Tap on the beats as you count to 8 between verses of Time for Music.

Flashlight vocal warmup

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Practice Item Used: Warm Ups

Follow the flashlight and make your voice go up and down the way the flashlight goes.

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Play Freeze Dance with the music

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Play Freeze Dance with the music.

Invite the kids to move to the beat - dance, twist, hop, turn, sway.

The teacher starts the music. When the teacher hits pause, all FREEZE.
Some teachers play this as an elimination - if you're moving after the music stops, you sit down.

A fun variant is to have the kids freeze and make a pose. You might make a pose like a pumpkin or cat or skeleton.

Learn the poem "Little Miss Muffet"

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Song Used: Little Miss Muffet

Show the children the graphic of Little Miss Muffet. Explain that a tuffet is like a stool and that curds and whey are kind of like cottage cheese. Say the poem.

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Learn the movements for "Little Miss Muffet"

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Song Used: Little Miss Muffet

Say the poem and invite the children to do the actions with you. Say the poem quiet/loud, fast/slow/, and with magic lips (thinking voice).

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Listen to "Spider on the Floor"

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Song Used: Spider on the Floor

Find the largest toy spider that you can and bring it into your class as a visual to use with the song. Sing the song, moving the spider to the place on your body.

Listen to the song "Spider on the Floor".

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Sing "Spider on the Floor"

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Song Used: Spider on the Floor

Sing the song "Spider on the Floor" with the teacher and kids. Invite the children to think of new places for the spider to go and make up a rhyme for it.

For example:
There’s a spider on my nose... Well what do you suppose, I’ve got a spider on my nose.

If you can buy a class set of plastic spiders, the children love having the manipulative to move as they sing the song.

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Print and color, or draw your own spider to use in the song

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Song Used: Spider on the Floor

Print and color, or draw your own spider to use in the song.

If you can buy a class set of plastic spiders, the children love having the manipulative to move as they sing the song.

Review "Eensy Weensy Spider"

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Song Used: Eensy Weensy Spider

Review "Eensy Weensy Spider". Which spider had a high voice (teeny tiny) and which had a low voice (great big).

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Sing the Letter C song

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Song Used: C – Cool Cat

Sing the Letter C song.

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Sing "Cool Cat"

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Song Used: C – Cool Cat

Listen to the song "Cool Cat".

Play the video again and sing along.

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Do the movements for the song "Cool Cat"

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Song Used: C – Cool Cat

Do the movements for the song "Cool Cat".

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Listen to "Bony Skeletons"

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Song Used: Bony Skeletons

Show the students the visual for the song with the skeleton, black cat, and ghost. Teach the song by rote or using immersion, first doing non-locomotor movement, then inviting them to create locomotor movements for each verse.

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Copy the movements for "Bony Skeletons"

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Copy the movements for "The Bony Skeletons Walk".

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Listen and participate in the Mortimer story

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Song Used: Mortimer

Listen and participate in the Mortimer story.

Mortimer reinforces many musical concepts. Invite the students to add sound effects and movements to parts of the story. (Additional teaching suggestions are available in the Song Activities under Mortimer in the Song List)

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Sing our closing song: "Skinnamarink"

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Song Used: Skinnamarink

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