Grade: Second Subject: General Music Focus: Steady Beat Related Subject: Going to school Lesson adapted from:

Share the Music, 2, pg. T1G Objective: Students will pat to determine if music and a poem have steady beat or no steady beat and pat with the beat to develop skill in keeping a beat. Standards: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the arts Materials: Hand Drum Poem- The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor Song- Song Time by Lynn Freeman Olson Speech Piece- Say You Name Differentiation: Some children may still need help in finding or keeping a steady beat. Watch and note those having trouble. There will be many opportunities to practice. One beatkeeping game is to use a steady beat to pat different body parts for eight beats each. First lead children as you pat, counting aloud from one to eight. Then, let children take turns leading. To reinforce steady maintaining a steady beat, have children use the pat-clap pattern with known songs and short poems until most are doing the pattern together. If a few have difficulty, it may help to pair them with proficient children who tap the beat gently on partner shoulders as they do the pat-clap pattern.

Lesson: Get Set: Tell students, Today begins a new year of musical fun and learn and learning. Every day is a new beginning. When you start your day, how do you move your body? Perhaps you stretch and do some exercises. Pretend you are waking up, and listen. Have children Listen to the poem while they are pretending to wake up Listen to the poem again keeping still Ask some questions to help students express what they feel about it How do you think the writer of the poem feels about the beginning of the day? (happy, quiet, thoughtful, peaceful) Do you every make up words to sing? What might you write a song about? How many of you do exercises each morning?

Have children do exercises with you to music that has no steady beat and music that has a steady beat Tell children, did you know that you just moved with a steady beat while you were exercising? Listening for a steady beat, and moving to it, can help you in musicand its lots of fun! In this lesson, youll have more chances to move with the steady beat. Develop: 1. Introduce Song Time. Learn the song. Have children Listen to the song, patting with the steady beat Read the hand out, then listen to the song again, tapping the suns on the steady beat. Look at verse 2 and identify the opposites Find the word that rhymes with away Listen to the song again, pointing to the pictures below the song that represent key words. 2. Identify the steady beat in Song Time. Have children: Pat with the beat as they sing the song Informal Assessment: Close their eyes and try patting with the beat as you read The Way to Start a Day to decide if it has a steady beat. (It does not.) Then have them pat with the beat while listening to Song Time to decide if it has a steady beat. (It does.) Apply: Introduce Say Your Name Practice keeping the steady beat. Have children Pat and clap the steady beat as you play Say Your Name Across the Curriculum: Social Studies, Organizing information, expressing main ideasSay Your Name To help children become acquainted at the beginning of the school year, have them create a word web that tells about themselves. First, children should write and circle their names on a piece of oaktag. Ask them to think about things that help describe who they are such as hobbies, possessions, or favorite things. Then have them write these things around their name and circle them. Remind children that they can list anything that makes them feel special. Display the word webs on the bulletin board. Close: Tell what the term steady beat means in your own words. (Listen for the words steady, regular, stays the same.) Do you agree with the answers youve heard? Can you add more? How did you show the steady beat during class today? (patted with the beat to Song Time and pat-clapped with the beat to Say Your Name.) Have children Sing Song Time once more. Choose a way to keep the beat.