Singing 

Music Lesson Plan 

Title: The Old Gray Cats are Sleeping Grade Level: K 

Source: Dr. McConkey  

Materials needed: 

the Cat and mouse song. 

Procedure: 

A.S: How do cats move?  

1. Sing: The old gray cats are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, the old gray cats are sleeping in
the house.
2. Ask what the cats are doing? 
3. Sing: The little mice are creeping, creeping, creeping, the little mice are creeping, in the
house.”
4. Ask what other animals are in the house? 
5. Sing: The little mice are nibbling, nibbling, nibbling, the little mice are nibbling in the
house.
6. Ask what they could be nibbling on? 
7. Sing: The old gray cats are waking, waking, waking, the old gray cats are waking, in the
house
8. Ask what happened next?  
9. The little mice are running, running, running, the little mice are running in the house
10. Ask Why are they running?  
11. Have the kids sing the song again with you.  
12. Learn the song to prepare for the game.  
13. Use your hands to show the pitch change. 
14. Have the kids sing the song without you. 
15. Separate the kids on two sides of the room.
a. One of the groups is mice, the other are cats.
b. “Mice” Creep over towards over towards the cats while the song is sung. Then
they “nibble cheese”.  
c. The cats then wake up and chase after the mice and the mice crawl back to their
sides of the room. 
16. The children act out each verse of the song.  
17. Cats wake up from their sleep. 
 18. Mice crawl back to their “mice holes”
Closure: 
How did the animals move in the song?  

Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
To move slow and fast to music and singing.
 Social/  Cognitive  Physical  Musical  Non-Musical 
Subjects
Emotional
Laughing   Putting   Crawling  National   “Core”   Content  
together Standards  Music   Standards 
Standards 
Being the   Nibbling on  Animals,
animals  in actions of imaginary   1. Singing  Creating  cats  
a group  the  song  cheese  Imagine  and mice  
specifically
Answering   Listening Fake   Plan and   and  how
Make  they move
questions sleeping and  2. Play  
waking up  Instruments  Evaluate &  
Refine 
Mice  
crawling and  Present 
3.
cats crawling
Performing 

Analyze 

Interpret 
Improvising
Rehearse, 
Evaluate, &  
Refine 

Present 
4.
Responding 

Evaluate 

Composing 
Connecting

5. Reading &  
Notating 

6. Listening 

7. Evaluating 
8. Integration 
(outside arts) 

9.  
History/Culture