Lesson Plan # 3

Date: 10/15/2015

Grade: 1st and 2nd

Duration: 10-15 minutes
National Music Standards: [Create, Perform, Respond, Connect]
Repertoire: Down by the Bay
Other Teaching Materials: e.g., piano/keyboard
New Vocabulary: e.g. composing, echo, tonic chord
Lesson Objectives:
Students will (sample objectives)
Learn the song Down by the Bay
Create new versus to Down by the Bay
Listening for chords

Teaching Procedure
Prepare
1. Ask the students, Who is ready to be a composer?
2. We will be creating new versus to the song Down by the Bay!
3. First, lets make sure we all know the song.
Present
1. Teach the song by singing each phrase and asking the students to echo each time I sing.
Once I get to the final phrase, Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?, I sing this
question, and the students respond with, Down by the bay.
2. Continue singing the rest of the verses, ending with
- Did you ever see a bee with a sunburned knee?
- Did you ever see a moose kissing a goose?
- Did you ever see a whale with a polkadot tail?
- Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?
Practice & Extend
1. Ask the students to think about some animals that were mentioned in the song, and the
words that rhymed with each animal (bear-hair, bee-knee, moose-goose, whale-tail, flytie)
2. Split the class up into groups or talk about this as a whole class, and ask them to create
additional versus. Come up with more animals, and for each animal, a word that rhyme
with (or doesnt have to rhyme with) the animal.
*Write the rhyming words on the board.
3. Then, sing the song again with the new versus that the students came up with.
4. I accompany the students on the piano, playing chords, while also singing the song
with them.
Assess & Close
1. Being a composer and coming up with new versus can be super fun. It is also fun to
accompany our singing by clapping and snapping our fingers when we hear a certain
chord. Great job!