Movement

Music Lesson Plan

Title: “Engine Engine number 9” Grade Level: Kindergarten

Source: Dr. McConky

Materials needed:

Bucket of Seashells

Procedure:

A.S: “Has anyone been on a train before?”

1. Ask students to identify the different sounds of a train such as the movement and train
whistle
2. Have students mimic the sounds of the train
3. Inform the students that they will be taking a trip using their imaginations
4. Teach them the song that goes along with the train movement and sounds piece by piece
5. In order to take a trip, students must do a follow the leader scenario and create a “train”
as they move and sing along the room, using their feet to stomp the beat.
6. Continue going around the room in a slow fashion as part of the “trip”
7. Arrive at “beach”, and ask students who likes to pick up sea shells
8. Instruct students to watch how to pick up seashells, this is done by singing a melody and
picking up sea shells one by one on the downbeats
9. Teach students the lyrics to the melody and also have them pick up their pretend sea
shells at the same time
10. Ask for volunteers to pick up sea shells and place them inside the bucket
11. Connect the fact that there should always be 4 seashells in the bucket by the end of the
song
12. Repeat with another volunteer
13. Once that is over, hop back on the “train” to take the trip back by making the train sounds
as well as singing the song that goes with it in the same follow the leader fashion
Closure: “who can show us how were stepping?”, “can you do that rhythm on our laps?”, “how
did we pick up the sea shells?”
Educational Objective: ​ By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
What sounds a train engine makes during its travel, how to stomp on the beats, how to
count (the sea shells), following the leader, and emphasizing the downbeats of a song.

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Mus

Emotional ical
Subjects
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together in around the Standards Music Standards
a train Walking room Standards
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