Small-Group Time Planning Form

Originating
Idea

Music

Materials

Song book, our hands

Curriculum
Content

C15. Steady beat

Beginning

Lets choose a song from the song book, and

clap our hands to the beat

Opening
Statement

Middle
Earlier
What will
children do?

Listen to
songs, feel
steady beat if
caregiver
patting to
beat on leg
Strategies:

How will you

scaffold
their
learning?

End

Sing along
with child,
clapping
hands to
steady beat

Middle

Listen and
sing to song,
clap hands to
music

Strategies:

Strategies:

Sing along
with child,
clapping
hands to
steady beat

Sing along
with child,
clapping
hands to
steady beat

warning and
transition to
next part of
routine

Let clap our hands while we go to the sink to

wash up for snack

Follow-up
Ideas

Later

Listen and
sing to songs,
clap hands to
a steady beat
of tune

Change songs, clap to different types of beats