Movement

Music Lesson Plan 

Title: Lollipop Grade Level: 2nd grade 

Source: Dr. McConkey  

Materials needed: 

Color blocks

Blue, red, orange, green, pink

Song

Procedure: 

A.S: “Where could you see a pattern?”  Let students answer. “What could make a
pattern?” Students answer.
1. Take out color blocks
2. Attach a word association to each color block
3. Attach a movement to each color block (ask students for suggestions)
a. Blue = water = arms moving like a wave
b. Red = hot = waving your body as if you are hot
i. Does not have to be towards a certain object but it can be
c. Orange = feel = cross their arms in a wave motion
d. Yellow = cheese = clap once and create a square with their fingers
e. Green = grass = index fingers up and swat
f. Pink = jump
4. Play lollipop song
5. Put students into three groups (know how many students you have)
6. Have students create a pattern with the color blocks
7. Give each group a specific space to then work
8. Give each group color blocks and line them up on their table to create their
pattern together
9. Have each group go one by one to show the pattern they came up with
through the body movements associated with the color blocks
10.Tell the students who are not presenting to listen and watch group presenting
quietly and politely as they wait for their groups turn
 11.Clap after each group takes their turn
12.Ask students after one group goes what colors/patterns they saw in the group
that presented
13.After all groups have had their turn to present their movements, ask students
to put their color blocks back in the bag where they belong
14.Ask students to sit back into a circle
Closure: Go over what movement was for which color block. Go over what
patterns are and where they may happen.

Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
what patterns are and how to create them
 Social/  Cognitive  Physical  Musical  Non-
Musical 
Emotional Subjects
Students will be Students will be National   “Core”   Content  
working with Students will creating/presentin Standards  Music   Standards 
their group have to g the movements Standards 
mates to come remember for the color
up with a pattern which blocks Creating  Identifying
1. Singing 
for their dance movement is Imagine  patterns
associated with
Students laugh which color
and speak with Plan and  
block Make 
one another to 2. Play  
come up with the Instruments 
pattern Students will Evaluate
have to &  
memorize their Refine 
pattern and
movements to 3.Improvising Present 
present them to
the class
Performing 

Analyze 
4.Composing
Interpret 

Rehearse, 
Evaluate, &  
Refine 

Present 

5. Reading &   Responding 

Evaluate 

Notating  Connecting

6. Listening 

7. Evaluating 

8. Integration 
(outside arts) 

9.  History/Culture