Lesson Plan # 1

Date: 10/1/2015

Grade: 1st 2nd

Duration: 10 minutes
National Music Standards: Create and perform
Repertoire: Down by the Bay
Other Teaching Materials: piano accompaniment for Down by the Bay
New Vocabulary: body of water, bay, call and response, compose
Lesson Objectives:
Students will
Sing Down by the Bay with accurate pitches and rhythms
Understand call and response and sing both roles
Compose lyrics and sing them in context of the song
Teaching Procedure
Prepare
1. Ask students Do you know what a body of water is? Who can raise their hand and
give me examples of bodies of water? (Answer: rivers, lakes, oceans, etc)
2. Have any of you heard of a bay before? What is a bay? What sorts of things might
you see at a bay? (Answers: sand, fish, pelicans, seagulls, shells, boats, etc.
3. Today were going to learn a song that talks about all of the things that a person might
see at the bay.
Present
1. Ask students to listen for what the speaker sees at the bay while I sing. Follow up with
students: what did they see?
2. Teach song line by line, then in larger chunks
3. Perform song as a whole class.
Practice & Extend
1. Talk briefly about the call and response form of the song.
2. Sing the song again, but with half of the class singing the call parts and the other half
of the class singing the response. Divide students a different way (boys vs. girls, 7 year
olds and 8 year old, etc.) so that everyone gets a chance to sing the call and the response
phrases.
3. Then talk about the last line of the song. Teach the next verse of the song with a
different did you ever see a
4. Ask students, Can you come up with a different last line to the song? Who has an idea
of another line we could write that starts with Did you ever see a ____, ____ing a
____?
5. Allow students to share, maybe even go around the class? If only a few volunteer, sing
the song with each variation of the line.
Assess & Close

1. Sing song as a class one last time, and invite students to sing their favorite last line all
at the same time! Clarify that the song will sound crazy at that point, but the rest of the
song should be sung together.