Kindergarten+Fun!

Type in the content of your page here.Devin Schroeder Date: 4/8/2010

Subject/Grade: Kindergarten General Music

Concepts/Skills/Values: Expressive Movement, Accurate singing, Singing by self, Play/Don’t Play

National Standards (check all that apply): X 1. Sing X 2. Play X 3. Improvise X 4. Compose/Arr. X 5.Read/Notate X 6. Listen X 7. Evaluate X 8. Related Arts X 9. History/Culture X 10. Movement

Behavioral Learning Objectives: Students will move their bodies expressively to classical music. Students will listen to and evaluate the book/song “Take Me out to the Ballgame”. Students will learn and accurately recite the poem “1,2 Buckle My Shoe”

Materials: Recording of “The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals, Book “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”, Visual with the poem “1,2 Buckle My Shoe” written on it, Orff Instruments (pitched in C pentatonic and non-pitched; set up as wood, metal, skin, wood, metal, skin, etc)

Sequence of Activities and Assessment:

1. Begin by asking the students to think about another piece of music that we listened and moved to from “Carnival of the Animals” 2. Introduce the new piece as “The Swan” from the same piece of music. 3. Ask if the they know what a Swan is, what does a Swan look like, how do you think a Swan moves, etc. 4. Instruct the students to be your mirror as you lead them in the movements to “The Swan” (These movements are from John Feierabend’s DVD “Move It!”, a great resource for getting kids to move to music) 5. After they are done with the movement, ask them how the music made them feel today. 6. Ask the students to show you how quietly they can move from a scattered spot to a spot in front of the board.
 * Movement**

7. Introduce the book “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” to them by asking what two songs they would hear if they went to a baseball game (The Star Spangled Banner and Take Me Out to the Ballgame) 8. Read the book to the children singing the words when they appear to the song. 9. Ask the students to join you as you sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” one more time.
 * Listening, Culture, Related Arts, Singing, Evaluate***

10. Direct the students attention to the poster on the board with the words to “1,2 Buckle My Shoe” on it. 11. Ask a student to read the first line, second line, etc. 12. Ask the students to clap only on the numbers the first time. 13. Ask the students to pat their legs only on the words the second time. 14. Ask the students to clap on the numbers and pat their legs on the words. 15. Have the girls stand up and clap on the numbers while the boys stay seated and pat their legs on the words. 16. Switch the groups so that the boys are standing and the girls are sitting. (This gets them thinking about how there are two parts and focusing on only performing on their part) 17. Give the students an opportunity to think about what it will look like to move back to the instruments, ask them to think of two things they should remember when we play instruments. 18. Call on a few students to give you answers, keep fresh in their minds the procedures and expectations. 19. Ask students with a birthday in January to go carefully go back to an instrument, birthday in February, etc until everyone is seated behind an instrument. 20. Ask students on mallet instruments to click their mallets and students on drums to clap only on the numbers. 21. Ask them to click only on the words. 22. Let the students know that all of the wrong notes have been taken off so they can play any bars they want to. 23. Ask the mallet instruments to play hands together only on the numbers while the drums play on the words. 24. Switch so the drums are playing the numbers and the mallets are playing the words. 25. Teach the students the Mallet Madness rotation rhyme “1,2,3,4 mallets down get off the floor 5,6,7,8 hurry don’t be late!” 26. Be sure to clearly state their instruction on which way their row is going to move and to which instrument they will play next. I had them point to their next instrument so they had in their mind where they were going. 27. Rotate and continue switching up the instrumental combinations with different sections of the poem. 28. Ask a student on each type of instrument (xylophone, metalophone and drum) what their instrumental group is going to play (numbers or words, hands together or hands alternate) 29. Ask the students to put their mallets back into the holder and to think about our procedure for moving away from the instruments. (Ask them to carefully stand, walk down the row and out, Never over or between) 30. Ask the students to show you how quietly kindergartners can find their line order spots.
 * Play, Sing, Listen, Improvise, Evaluate, Compose/Arr.**