Kaylee Harris

Music for Elementary 405

6/12/14

Micro-Teaching Assignment #2

Poem: Trees by Sarah Coleridge
The Oak is called the king of trees,
The Aspen quivers in the breeze,
The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Peach tree spreads along the wall,
The Sycamore gives pleasant shade,
The Willow droops in watery glade,
The Fir tree useful in timber gives,
The Beech amid the forest lives.
Teaching Process: I will tell the students to clap the syllables of the poem as we
read it. Than I will tell them to stomp when we say a name of a kind of tree that is
mentioned in the poem. Finally, I will tell them I will to snap at the words that
rhyme at the end of each line of the poem. After I explain this I will demonstrate
how the whole body percussions should sound and look like with the poem. Than I
will break it down so the students can get a hang of doing the body percussions.
First we will start by just doing the basic claps of the syllables of each line. Than, we
will start with the stomps of the names of the trees and practice putting the syllable
claps with the stomps of each line. Finally, we will add the snaps of the words that
rhyme. I will have my students help me figure out which words that rhyme. We will
repeat all these together multiple times until we have it down.
Legends:

Type of Tree-Stomp

Rhyming Words-Snap