Movement

Music Lesson Plan

Title: Engine, Engine, and Seashells Grade Level: Kinder

Source: Dr. McConkey

Materials needed:
• Train engine
• Sand bucket
• Sea shells

Procedure:

A.S: Has anyone ever been on a train? Where did you go?

1. Hold up train engine “this is an engine”

2. I’m going to sing you a song about an engine, tell me what number the
engine is in the song.
3. Sing “engine, engine number 9,
going down Chicago line.
If the train falls off the track,
do you want your money back?
yes, no, maybe so.”
Ask “what number was the train?” Call on kids for answers
4. Sing small chunks of the song and have the class repeat those lines, then
bigger chunks, until they can sing the whole song.
5. Have the students use their arms as the train wheels and say “chugga-
chugga, chugga-chugga…” while you sing the song, then have everyone
singing while doing the wheel motions
6. Add in a whistle “choo-choo!” At the beginning and end and chug around
the room while singing. At the end of the song pass the engine to the next in
line and the engine goes to the back to be a caboose. Repeat the song a few
times and then have everyone sit down.
7. Ask “what is this called?” (hold up engine) call on kids. Ask “and what
was the number on our engine again?” (9)

8. Transition into the seashell song

9. Say, “I like to go to the beach and pick up seashells. *sing* seashells,
seashells, down by the sea shore.”
10 “Who else likes to go to the beach?”
11. Now sing with me (while singing, pick up shells while singing to the
beat) Did you guys see me picking up the shells? Now you try with
imaginary shells and buckets.
12. Who can do it like me? Have kids take turns trying with the shells.

Closure:
They kept the beats of the songs with the chugging and picking up the
seashells
Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
The front of a train is call an engine and the back is the caboose. They also
learned how to keep the beat of a song.

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-

Musical
Emotional Subjects

• Playing • Thinking • Walking National “Core” Music Content

Standards Standards Standards
with about like
class trains train Creating
Imagine
1. Singing
• Learning • Thinking • Moving
Plan and Make
to take about the arms
turns beach like 2. Play
Evaluate &
Refine
• Learn 2 train Instruments
Present
new wheels
songs Performing
3. Improvising Select
• Working
on beat Analyze

Interpret
4. Composing
Rehearse,
Evaluate, &
Refine
5. Reading &
Notating Present

Responding
Select
6. Listening Analyze

Interpret

7. Evaluating Evaluate

Connecting
Connect #10
8. Integration
(outside arts) Connect #11

9. History/
Culture