Instrument

Music Lesson Plan

Title: Five Little Monkeys Grade Level: K

Source: Lesson Planet

Materials needed:
• Five Little Monkeys book
• Xylophone or recorder

Procedure:

A.S. 1. How many of you have heard the song Five Little Monkeys?
2. How many monkeys were in the song?
3. What were the monkeys doing in the song?
4. How many of you know what it means to count backwards? Show
me.

1. Read the Five Little Monkeys book to students and have them read
along with you.
2. Give students their instruments and explain how to use them.
3. Explain rules for activity (i.e. no using instrument unless they are
instructed to, no hitting anyone else with them, hands to ourselves).
4. Explain activity
a. Once I say the number of monkeys, they will need to play the
instrument that number of times (i.e. “four little monkeys” play
instrument 4 times)
5. Read story and enjoy (:
6.
Closure: ask students to count backwards from 5 and then from 4 and then
from 3. Check for understanding and answer any questions students may
have.
 Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned how to
use a new musical instrument and have learned how to count backwards.

Social/Emotional Cognitive Physical Musical Other

Subjects
Singing together Acknowledgin Play an National Content
g that we can instrument Standards Standards
Playing an count our
1. Singing K.CC.5:
instrument numbers Count to
backwards 2. Play answer
Instruments “how
many”
3. Improvising
K.CC.4:
4. Composing Understand
the
5. Reading & relationship
Notating between
numbers
6. Listening and
quantities;
7. Evaluating connect
counting to
8. Integration cardinality.
(outside arts)

9.
History/Culture