Music Lesson Plan Ideas

Grade Level: K/1 – Angeles Lopez

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Hickory Dickory Dock

Source: http://beccasmusicroom.com/movement-activities-k-1/

Description: Students will read Hickory, Dickory, Doc by Jim Aylesworth. They will
then stand up by their desk and as a class they will keep a steady beat when reciting
“hickory dickory dock.” After they will recite “the mouse ran up” and move their hands
like the mouse is going up. For the next line “clock struck BLANK” the students will
make their hands look like the hands of a clock. Next “the mouse ran down” the students
will move their hands down as the mouse goes down. Lastly they will keep a steady beat
when reciting “Hickory Dickory Dock.”

Curriculum Connection: Language Arts

Literacy Connection: Hickory, Dickory, Doc By Jim Aylesworth
Music Standards utilized: K.MU:Cr1 b. With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as
movements or motives).

Grade Level: 2/3 – Angeles Lopez

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Ickle Ockle

Source: http://beccasmusicroom.com/movement-activities-2-3-grade/

Description: Students will stand in a circle and link arms with another student. There will
be one student who is partnerless. The students surrounding the students in the middle
will walk around will their arms linked singing “Ickle ockle blue bottle. Fishes in the sea.
If you want a partner, just choose me.” Then each student will look for a new partner and
go to the closets rhythm card they are closets to. There will be a new student in the
middle that is partnerless. The students in the outer circle who will have the rhythm cards
will all read their cards out loud. Then they continue to sing the rhyme and walk around,
get a new partner, or stand in the middle.

Curriculum Connection: Language Arts

Literacy Connection: Student will be able to practice their reading through the rhythm
cards.
Music Standards utilized: 2.MU:Cr1 b. Generate musical patterns and ideas within the
context of a given tonality (such as major and minor) and meter (such as duple and
triple).
Grade Level: 4/5 – Angeles Lopez

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Rhyme Stomp

Source: http://beccasmusicroom.com/movement-activities-4-5/

Description: Students will learn different beats and associate them with movements. The
students will match the movement of the stick figure according to that beat.

Curriculum Connection: Music

Literacy Connection: Vocab words associated with variations of beats.
Music Standards utilized: 4.MU:Cr1 b. Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms,
melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major
and minor) and meters.

Grade Level: K/1 – Miriam Sanchez

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Freeze Dance

Source: 33 Best Freeze Dance Songs (And How to Play Guide) – Dynamic Music Room

Description:

Movement activity for kindergarten; students must dance with the music is playing and
strike a pose when music stops.

Materials Needed: CD player, Appropriate fun music format CD

Curriculum Connection: simple math can be introduced by asking students to count how
many poses they created.

Literacy connection: Does A Kangaroo Have a mother, Too by Eric Carle can be used as
a connection to Freeze dance activity by asking students to pose as the animals that were
in the story.

• Music Standards utilized: MU:Cn11.0.Ka: Demonstrate understanding of

relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts,
and daily life.
Grade Level: 4/5 – Roxy Irvine

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement

Title: “Beat and Breeze”

Source: http://beccasmusicroom.com/movement-activities-4-5/

Description:

• Teacher has a drum and plays 8 beats at a time. Within the 8 beats, there will be 7
low beats and 1 loud beat.
• Students:
A. Low beats – tip toe Loud beat – jump
B. 1st beat – students pose as statue
C. Loud beat – students pose as statue
D. Etc.

Curriculum Connection: Students connect music with beats with numbers

Literacy Connection: Students connect movement with rhythm
Music Standards utilized: 4.MU:Pr5 & 5.MU:Pr5

Grade Level: 2/3 – Cindy Guerrero

Type of Lesson: Movement
Title: Old Brass Wagon
Source: http://beccasmusicroom.com/movement-activities-2-3-grade/
Description: The use of this song and folk dance is to teach sixteenth notes to third
grade. When it says to circle to the left, you circle to the left. When it says circle to the
right, you circle to the right. Everybody in– everyone walks in with their hands up.
Everybody out– everyone walks out. You can also use rhythm sticks and do the actions
that way.
Curriculum Connection: In dance Connection, Students will be listening to and
understanding the rhythm of the song to move in the right direction.
Literacy Connection: vocabulary words could be used from the song.
Music Standards utilized: 3.MU:Pr4.2 - a. Demonstrate understanding of the structure
in music selected from a variety of cultures for performance.

Grade Level: 4/5 – Karla Anderson

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Mirroring
Source: Melodious Intent https://melodiousintent.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/six-
alternative-to-freeze-dance/
Description:
Students will pick a partner.
One partner leads the game with different predictable movements.
Swap leader, take turns back and forth.
Students will mirror the leader's movements (do what the leader does).

Curriculum Connection: SEL connection

Literacy Connection: In the Mirror by: Fabian E. Furgeson
Music Standards utilized: MU: Pr4.3.4a Demonstrate and explain how intent is
conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics,
tempo, and timbre).

Grade Level: K/1 – Lauren Evans

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: 1,2 Buckle My Shoe

Source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beat-and-Rhythm-Music-Lesson-
1-2-Buckle-My-Shoe-4080309

Description:
You can teach beat v. rhythm, or how to play half notes on instruments using 1,2, Buckle
My Shoe.
Students can also be interactive with the song by giving them assigned numbers to hold
in the air when they sing that number, along with in place movements, like pretending to
tie shoes etc.
Curriculum Connection: working on speaking skills and counting
Literacy Connection:1,2 Buckle My Shoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Music Standards utilized: MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate musical
Ideas

Grade Level: 4/5 – Allison Gunther

Type of Lesson: Listening and Singing Game
Title: Rikki Tikki Bear
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8PIUmORbM
Description: Students will be challenged to keep timing with their cup, all while singing
a song as well. This will challenge their coordination as well as their listening skills.
Materials Needed: One plastic cup per student
Curriculum Connection: Learning to keep the beat, as learned in previous music
lessons.
Literacy Connection: The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland
Music Standards Utilized: 4.MU:Pr4.2a. Demonstrate understanding of the structure
and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for
performance.

Grade Level: K/1 – Almu Vincente

Type of Lesson (choose one): Movement Listening Instrument Singing Game

Title: Can Giraffes Dance?

Source: https://classroom.synonym.com/giraffes-cant-dance-activities-8410868.html

Description:
Movement activity for 1st-grade students. After reading aloud the children's book
"Giraffes Can’t Dance," the students will gather into a circle and come up with the giraffe
movement/dance and other animal dances. The video-
song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O9EjrEVUc will be played. Then the teacher
asks students to think about how an elephant, giraffe, or zebra might dance and
encourages them to create dances based on the natural movement of that animal.
After the song has finished, students continue moving while listening (not watching) to
the music again. The teacher incorporates a quick lesson on adjectives by first asking the
students to follow the teacher's directions as they dance and then saying phrases using
adjectives such as "slow," "fast," and "silly," for example: How do you think a giraffe
could dance? Slow, Fast ...

Curriculum Connection: Common Core., Speaking and Listening Standards, Presentation

of Knowledge and Ideas, area 6, speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas
clearly. CCSS. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5: with guidance and support from adults,
explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. RL.K.2: With prompting and
support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

Literacy Connection: Children's book: "Giraffes Can’t Dance" by Giles Andreae and
illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees. Giraffes Can't Dance

Music Standards utilized: MU: Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as
movements or motives)