Lesson Plans from Edumate

Grade 2

DESIGN
Lesson 1 – Music Expresses Feeling
WEEK 11

Bilingual & International Period 

 
(W/I)  Emotion Activities (10 minutes) 

Activity 1:  The teacher will flash on the screen different pictures, and the students will have to say aloud
whether the picture expresses happiness or sadness. 

Activity 2: The students will blink pick from the teachers box and act it out, and then the class will have to guess
that particular emotion. 

Activity 3: The teacher put  papers on the floor and the students with the same feeling will have to stand
together on the same piece of paper where their feeling is written.

Then the teacher will ask the reasons for example why they are happy, or why they are sad, or why they are
angry. 

(W) Discussion on How Music Expresses Feelings (5 minutes)

The teacher will then explain to the class that we can also effectively expresse our feelings or emotions through
music.  This is one of the reasons why people love music. It can tell others how we feel.

The teacher will then discuss to the class some ways by which composers express their feeling through their
music. 

(W)  Seatwork: Aural Activity (15 minutes) 

The students will be given a paper with pictures of kids showing different emotions (sad, relaxed, afraid, happy,
and anxious). 

Then they will listen to five different audio files and will identify the feeling expressed by each song  by writing
the number on top of the pictures of emotions. 

After the seatwork, the teacher will ask the students to share how they answered the seatwork. 

The teacher will then give the correct answers and give a background regarding each song. 

WEEK 12 

International Period 

(W) Opening Activity: Name the Song through Drawing (5 minutes)

The teacher will blink pick 3 names from the class and will call them one by one. 

Each of the picked students will have to draw on the board illustrations that will help their classmates to guess
the title of the song. They are however not allowed to draw words. 

The titles of the songs will have something to do with feeling. 

For example : "If You're Happy and You Know It"
1. "I'm Not Angry"
2. "Happy Family"
3. "Sad Clown" 

(I) Listening to Music and Drawing (15 minutes)

The teacher will ask the students to find a comfortable position where they can draw.

Then the music the teacher will play the audio file and ask the students to draw what the music makes
them think of . 

(I) Sharing Their Drawing (10) 

The students will individually share to the class their drawing and will  try to explain how they come up with
their drawing by simply listening to the music. 

After everybody has shared, the teacher will give the students the title of the song.