KINDERGARTEN

Christina Koutroulakis 260848700 March 18, 2021

ACTIVITY PLAN
Title of unit (if applicable) The World of Musical Instruments Kindergarten 4-to-5-year-old
The goal of this activity is for students to develop the vocabulary of the musical
Goal for Activity instruments and to be able to identify which instruments belong to which
instrumental group.
For children to practice identifying instruments and classifying them in the
Rationale for Activity
groups that they belong to base on their similarities.
Competency #1 - Children will be developing their gross motor skills through
bodily movements by placing their bodies on the right circles. They will be aware
of how their physical actions may influence another person on the board.
Competency #2 – Children will develop autonomy and self-regulation by carrying
out their role in the activity with respect and awareness for themselves and their
QEP Preschool peers. They will conduct themselves confidently by making positive choices.
Competencies Competency #3 – Children will be interacting with their peers by taking turns and
cooperating with others on the board, allowing them to develop social awareness.
Competency #4 – Children will be developing their vocabulary surrounding
instruments and music, while also communicating with their peers to play the
game fairly. This group activity allows for children to communicate with each other
throughout the game and exercise these skills if a disagreement occurs.
The differentiation components will change depending on how familiar the
children are with the instruments and the instrumental groups.
There will be a chart provided to them with images of the different groups and
Differentiation the instruments that belong to each group, for students to reference throughout
the game. As the children become more familiar with the groups and the
instrument names, the teacher can begin to encourage the children to only look
when they really need to/not use it at all.
Twister board with images of different instruments (guitar, flute, drums...)
Twister spin wheel with a picture of the four different instrumental groups
(strings, brass, woodwind, percussion)
Materials Twister spin wheel with different body parts (left arm, right arm, left foot, right
foot).
Chart with the four different instrumental groups and the instruments that
belong to each.
ACTIVITY PLAN
Students will know the names of the instruments and the instrumental groups.
Student will
Students will understand that all instruments belong to an instrumental group.
know/understand/do as a
By the end of the activity, students will be able to identify an instrument and
result of this activity
associate it to its specific instrumental group.
Invite 4 children to play at the Twister station.
- The twister mat will be spread out on the floor as well as the twister
spinners.
- The teacher will instruct the children on how the game will work. Before
beginning, the teacher will review the vocabulary of the instruments and
the instrumental groups with the students. Following this, the teacher
will explain the rules verbally. The teacher will demonstrate one round by
spinning the spinner, naming an instrument that belongs to that group
Procedures
and putting a body part on that instrument’s picture on the mat.
- The children can begin playing.
- They will take turns by first spinning the instrumental group spinner and
then the body part spinner.
- The child will name an instrument from that group that they see on the
mat (with the help of the chart if needed). They will then place their
arm/leg on the image of the instrument that they choose.
- The next child takes their turn, spins the wheel, and the steps repeat.

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The teacher will observe how students are cooperating with each other and
assess how much support the children need in naming an instrument and
Assessment
identifying its group. The teacher will do this by walking around and observing
their game.

Broad Areas of Learning

Health & Well Career Planning & Environmental Media Literacy Citizenship &
being Entrepreneurship Awareness & Consumer Community Life
Rights & Responsibilities
Explanation:
This activity promotes citizenship and community life by allowing students to practice cooperating
democratically with each other while communicating verbally as well as physically. This introduces
knowledge of music, an aspect that is integral to many cultures and societies.

Cross Curricular Competencies

Uses Information Solves Problems Exercises critical Uses Creativity Adopts effective work
judgement methods
Uses information & Achieves their potential Cooperates with others Communicates
communications technologies appropriately
Explanation:
Children will work together and cooperate by taking turns within a small group. They will cooperate
physically by placing their bodies on the board in relation to others. They will use the information they
learned about instruments to identify them and classify which ones go into each group of instruments. The
children will creatively move their bodies on the board to hold themselves up.