Music and Movement

2021-2022 Lesson Plan

Pre-K General Music

Date:
Week 1: September 9th
Week of:

Teacher’s Name Gie Su Ahn

Grade Level Pre-K (BMELC & Washington)

1.3A.2.Cr1a: Explore, create and improvise musical ideas using rhythmic and melodic patterns
NJSLS-VPA:
in various meters and tonalities.

Unit of
Introduction; Steady Beat
Instruction:

Learning Goals: Using our voices to sing and following along to move

Potential
Can you follow my movements? Did my beat get faster or stay the same? What is a singing voice?
Questions:

Assessments: No formal assessments will be conducted.

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- Mini-lessons
- How-to sheets
- Technology lessons and integrated activities
- Individual work: solo practice
- Cross-content integration
- Peer tutoring: instrumental modeling, vocal modeling
Modifications: - Collaborative groups
- Student choice of repertoire or instrument during class
- Seating preferences
- Simplified reading materials
- Solo opportunities for advanced students

Note: It is understood that all lesson plans will include appropriate 504/IEP support accommodations where
applicable.

**(Leave list as-is, or highlight per lesson. These are from the “National SEL standards”)**
Self-management
Social-Emotion Self-awareness
al Learning: Social awareness
Relationship skills
Responsible decision making

Technology: Smartboard, YouTube, Laptop

Lesson Title: Introduction to Music

Time Instructional Lesson Activities/Procedures Resources

Estimate Approach (video, website, document
links)

3 minutes Warm Up Day 1: The Warm Up Song

Day 2: Bouncing Up and Down

5 minutes Ukulele Songs Students will sing-along to songs played on the Ukulele
*Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
*If You’re Wearing...
*The Wheels on the Bus
*If You’re Happy and You Know It

10 minutes Hickety Pickety Bumblebee - students will learn their classmates’

names with this repetition song, there will be a doll (Charmander)
that will passed around and students will know that it is their
“special” turn when they have the doll in hand

5 minutes Music Is Treasure - students will use Quaver Music to listen to

three different kinds of music, they will feel the beat and move
along to the pieces
4 minutes Move (SuperSimple) - students will listen and move; they will feel
the beat of the music getting faster and faster

3 minutes Goodbye, Farewell - song that will be used to say goodbye at the
end of class