Music and Movement

2021-2022 Lesson Plan

Pre-K General Music

Week of: Week 2: September 13th

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: Introduction; Steady Beat

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-Emotiona Self-awareness
l Learning: Social awareness
Relationship skills
Responsible decision making

Technology: Smartboard, YouTube, Laptop

Lesson Title: Introduction to Steady Beat

Time Instructional
Lesson Activities/Procedures Resources
Estimate Approach

Day 1: The Warm Up Song

3 minutes Warm Up Day 2: Bouncing Up and Down
Shake Your Sillies Out

Students will sing-along to songs played on the Ukulele

*Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
5 minutes Ukulele Songs *If You’re Wearing...
*The Wheels on the Bus
*If You’re Happy and You Know It

Hickety Pickety Bumblebee - students will learn their classmates’

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

Day 1: Day 2 (only song): Beat is the Heart of Music - students will
5 minutes feel the beat on their heart, they will strum to the beat, and will
play on their tummies like a drum

Day 1: Catching Bubbles - a game for students to keep a steady

3 minutes
beat while catching bubbles
4 minutes Aquarium - using scarfs, students will move to what they hear

I Feel Good - listening to this song, students will use their scarfs
2 minutes Friday Fun to move along to this song; they will spin, stomp their feet, and
freely dance

Day 2: Patrick Patrikios' “You Should” - students will clap and

4 minutes
stomp along to this song : easy body percussion

Day 1: Stomp to the Beat - students will listen to the instructions

4 minutes sung in the song and move along
Day 2: Jump to the Beat - ^similar

Music with Motion - students will get to pick a pattern of motion

5 minutes as a class/group and listen to this to move; they will try their best Background Slides
to follow the steady beat that is in the song

Goodbye, Farewell - song that will be used to say goodbye at the

3 minutes
end of class