• Teacher Sings/students

• Tapping to a steady listening • Picture icons for

• Steady Beat • Singing voice
beat • Singing/Speaking steady beat

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Hickety Tickety z Ride a little Horse: pat z Teacher sings opening
z Frog in the Meadow steady beat echo song and leads the
Lesson 1

z No More Pie rhythms on a neutral students around the

z Ride a Little Horse syllable circle
z Frog in the Meadow: z Slide whistle
teacher sings, students z Hickety Tickety:
do the motions student speak name

z All Around the z All Around the z Hickety Tickety: speak

Buttercup Buttercup: sing while name
Lesson 2

z Beat is Steady patting the beat z Slide Whistle

z Frog in the Meadow:
teacher sings, students
do the motions

z Beat is steady: teacher z All Around the z Hickety Tickety: z Frog in the..: students z Frog in the..: tap
Lesson 3

leads Buttercup: walk sing frogs on board

around circle g hg g
tapping with flower s mm s m
T: sing me your name
C: My name is …

z Beat is steady: z Hickety Tickety: sing z Frong in the…: z Frog in the..: tap
Lesson 4

Students give name (same as week 3) Students sing/Solo frogs on beat charts
suggestions of what
body part to tap

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 • Develop Listening • Copy Movement
• Play to steady beat
• Echo skills • Stop & Go
• Move to steady beat
• “Do as I Do” • Personal Space

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Mac Chicken z No More Pie

Lesson 2 Lesson 1

z Clap! Stamp! z No More Pie z “Root Beer Rag” by z Waltz in A (video

Shake! Billy Joel: Beat Move It! DVD)
Buddies/Teacher z Rock n Stop: Eric
leads Chappelle

z No More Pie: Solo z Frog in the…: guiro z “Root Beer Rag” by z Waltz in A; without
Billy Joel: Beat video
Buddies/Teacher
Lesson 3

leads
z Lullaby: Ally Bally

z Waltz in A: Discuss
movements as same
or different (prepare
form AB)

z No More Pie: Solo z All Around the: tap z Waltz in A: without

with flower, the last the teacher
tapped will go to the
Lesson 4

middle to play steady

beat on instrument

z “Root Beer Rag: z Waltz in A: students

Beat label Apple &
Buddies/Students Banana on board
give movements
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 • Sing a song while… • Sing known songs
• Teacher Sings/students
• Pat in Fast/Slow tempi
listening • Picture icons for
• Clap • Identify pictures of • Singing voice
• Singing/Speaking steady beat
• Touching Body parts things that move
• Fast/Slow fast or slow

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Beat is Steady z Johnny Works with… z Beat is Steady: z Hickety Tickety:
z Two Little Apples z Going on a Bear Hunt; different tempos
g hg g
Lesson 1

z Going on a Bear Janet Sclaroff version

Hunt s mm s m
z Johnny works with T: sing me your name
One Hammer C: My name is …
z Johnny on the
Woodpile

z Bee Bee Bumblebee z Bee Bee Bumblebee; z Identify things that z Tap hammers; on
z Engine Engine No. 9 pat a steady beat @ make a beat or no
g g g g g ht the board
Lesson 2

different tempos beat

z Engine, Engine; use S m s m s mr d
visuals up/down hill. T: sing me , sing me, sing
Lead students around me your name
the room as a train C: Ma-ry, Ma-ry, Ma-ry’s
my name

z Paige’s Train z Cobbler Cobbler; keep z Sing known songs g g g g g ht z Tap hammers; beat
Lesson 3

z Cobbler Cobbler a beat on different in fast/slow tempi charts

S m s m s mr d
body parts (beat z Identify pictures as
T: sing me , sing me, sing
buddies) things that move
me your name
z Lullaby: Bye-O Bye-O fast or slow
C: Ma-ry, Ma-ry, Ma-ry’s
my name

z Doggie Doggie z Voice Recognition; g g g g g ht

Lesson 4

Doggie Doggie game

S m s m s mr d
T: sing me , sing me, sing
me your name
C: Ma-ry, Ma-ry, Ma-ry’s
my name

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 • Apples & Bananas; • Copy Movement
• Recalling known songs • Play to steady beat
• Echo AB • Circle Dance
by pictures • Move to steady beat
• Beat vs. No Beat • Personal Space

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z If You’re Happy… z Johnny on the z All Around the: tap z All Around the
(Go Fish) Woodpile with flower, the last Kitchen: move in a
Lesson 1

z Beanbag Dance tapped will go to the circle

(Hap Palmer) middle to play steady z Bee Beat; Eric
z Bluebird; game, beat on instrument Chappelle
learn to take turns

z Johnny on the z Identify songs from z Listen to music with z All Around the
Woodpile pictures: Hold up a beat and without; Kitchen: move in a
Lesson 2

picture; class sings identify as a group circle

song z Bee Beat; Eric
Chappelle
z Bee Beat; label
Apple & Bananas
as a group
z Johnny on the z Listen to music with z Cross Dance;
Woodpile; solos a beat and without; Shenanigans (also
identify individually known as Krueztanz)
Lesson 3

by clipping beat/no z Fast and Slow; Hap

beat Palmer
z Read “Going on a
Bear Hunt”

z Johnny on the z Making Music z Cross Dance;

Lesson 4

Woodpile; solos assessment; Shenanigans (also

fast/slow known as Krueztanz)
z Fast and Slow; Hap
Palmer

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 • Sing known songs • Singing/Speaking
• Sing a song while in Fast/Slow tempi • Whisper/Shouting
moving to the beat • Identify pictures of • Solo singing • Singing voice
• Fast/Slow things that move • Loud/quiet voice
fast or slow

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Doggie Doggie z Charlie Over the z Voice Recognition: Doggie
z Charlie Over the Ocean; move to steady Doggie game
Lesson 1

Ocean beat z I went up the Apple tree;

z I Went Up the Apple use pictures lion=loud,
Tree mouse= quiet
z Grizzly Bear z Grizzly Bear: tiptoe for
z 4 voices quiet, stomp for loud
z This is My Speaking Voice;
Kinder MusicPlay

z Lucy Locket z Here I Come; march z Charlie Over the z In a group of pictures z Change from loud to
z On the Mountain; Jill around the room to ocean; sit in circle , identify the one that soft in the same song
Lesson 2

Trinka the drum walk around the doesn’t belong; loud/soft at a signal; sign
z Here I Come; Don z Pumpkin; pass circle with stuffed z Wee Willie Winkie: lion/mouse
Dupont (What to pumpkin to a steady fish tapping a Whisper/Shouting
Teach When) beat. steady beat; take
z Pumpkin, Pumpkin turns
z Wee Willie Winkie
(STM)

z Autumn Leaves z Lucy Locket game z Identify loud and soft

Lesson 4 Lesson 3

(MusicPlay) z Autumn Leaves; move sounds from objects

z Wee Willie Winkie upward and downward in the room.
(Share the Music)

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 • Recalling known songs
• “Do as I Do” • Copy Movement
by pictures • Play to steady beat
• Echo • AB: apples & • Circle Dance
• Recall song by hearing • Move to steady beat
bananas • Personal Space
the melody

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z We Will Stomp; z Wise Old Owl z Identify songs from z I Know a Chicken; z Mice Go Marching; z Ancient Airs and
Mr. Eric & Mr. pictures: Hold up Laurie Berkner (egg Hap Palmer. Hold Dance; Move It!
Lesson 1

Michael picture; class sings shakers) up mouse or lion DVD

z 5 Little Fingers; Kid song
zone

z Wise Old Owl z Grizzly Bear: Making z Mice Go Marching:

Music animated tiptoe=quiet,
Lesson 2

listening map stomp=loud

z On the Mountain; z Label form of

student creates ways Ancient Airs as a
to move to a steady whole group
beat, class copies

z Wise Old Owl; solos z Identify songs from the z Here I Come; drums z Flight of z Seven Jumps
teacher singing on a & Triangles Bumblebee/Moonlig z Ancient Airs and
Lesson 3

neutral syllable, hold ht; hold up Dance without video

up picture mouse/lion

z Making Music:
identify voices
assessment

z Wise Old Owl; solos z Ancient Airs and

Lesson 4

Dance; without the

teacher

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 • Sing known songs • Singing/Speaking
in Fast/Slow tempi • Whisper/Shouting
• Sing a song while
• Identify pictures of • Solo singing • Singing voice
moving to the beat
things that move • Loud/quiet voice
fast or slow

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Two Little Black z A Tisket, A Tasket; pass
birds beanbag to a steady
Lesson 1

z Hello; Activate, beat

Denise G. z Quaker, Quaker; pat
z A Tisket, A Tasket steady beat
z Quaker, Quaker
z Turkey went for a
walk

z Mary Had a Little z Bounce High, Bounce z Mary Had a Little Lamb; z Quaker, Quaker; tap
Lamb Low; bounce ball use different voices houses on board
Lesson 2

z Hot Cross Buns around the circle.

z Bounce High, z O-Misses Sippy-O
Bounce Low (Beat Buddies)
z Lullaby: Bim Bam

z Making Music z Quaker Quaker; tap

Lesson 4 Lesson 3

assessment; houses on beat chart

Loud/Soft (individual)

z Thanksgiving break

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 • Echo • Recalling known songs
• Copy Movement
• Play an instrument at by pictures • Play to steady beat • ABC: Apples,
• Circle Dance
given points (on a • Recall song by hearing • Move to steady beat Bananas, Cherries
• Personal Space
specific word) the melody

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Me and My Partner z Tongo z Identify songs from the z The Bear Went Over the z Lt. Kije Suite, Op. 60;
z Baby Shark; The teacher singing on a Mountain; play steady Move it! DVD
Lesson 1

Learning Station neutral syllable, no beat on different non-

(youtube) pictures pitched instruments

z Just from the Kitchen;

Share the Music, students
create movements
z Hot Cross Buns: play z The Bear Went Over the
instruments on Mountain; play steady
Lesson 2

“Hot” beat on different non-

pitched instruments

z Label form for

Lt. Kije Suite;
add cherry (C)
z Sing a song while z Mary Had a Little z The Wasps: z Lt. Kije Suite;
Lesson 3

walking with a Lamb; loud Claire de without DVD

steady beat; alone, djembes/Tubanos Lune: soft
in a circle

z Thanksgiving Break
Lesson 4

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 • Sing known songs
• Sing a song while in Fast/Slow tempi
• Visually identify
moving to the beat • Identify pictures of • High/Low
high/low
• Fast/Slow things that move
fast or slow

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Sammy on the z Sammy on the Railway;
Railway squat for low, stand for
Lesson 1

z I’m Tall, I’m Small high

(Making Music) z RL (STM); Moving to high
Holiday Song: and Low
z Jingle Bells
z My dreydl
z Must Be Santa

z Star Light z Bluebird; move like bird s- z Look @ different star

z Bluebird, Bluebird m-s-m, stand & Crouch visuals, vote on
Lesson 2

z While looking at star whether each one

pattern sing “up” and matches what we are
“down”, explain how we singing
call this “High” and “Low”

z The Snow Man z The snowman; move from z Look at Starlight

Lesson 4 Lesson 3

(Share the Music) low to high visuals while singing

z Starlight (use PowerPoint)

z Winter Break

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 • Echo • Recalling known songs
• Play an instrument at by pictures • Copy Movement
• Play to steady beat • Identify High/Low
given points (on a • Recall song by hearing • Personal Space
specific word) the melody

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

Holiday Song: z Review all known z Identify songs from the z I can Shake My z Star and Starfish (STM)
z Jingle Bells echo songs teacher singing on a Shaker Egg (Mr. Eric
Lesson 1

z My dreydl z Continue to play neutral syllable, no & Mr. Michael)

z Must Be Santa instruments on pictures
z Dance, Freeze, specific words (Hot
Melt (Mr. Eric) Cross, Bear Went)

z Mary Had a Little z Is it high or Is it low? z Symphony No. 94

Lamb; play steady (MM); look at big book (Surprise); Move It!
beat on various and discuss high/low 2 DVD
Lesson 2

classroom
instruments

z Just from the

Kitchen; create
movements to a
steady beat

z Humpty Dumpty
Lesson 3

(MM); use high/low

signs

z Winter Break
Lesson 4

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 • Play a steady beat • High/Low • Small=high/Long=low
while singing a song • Upward/downward • Smaller=high/bigger=low

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z The Snow Man z Play rhythm z The snowman; move from
(Share the Music) instruments while low to high
z Here I Come with singing a song z Grandma’s Glasses; use
Lesson 1

(develop a feeling for high and low voice

My Big Bass Drum;
the steady beat) z Sing song while pointing
Music a la Abbott
to the pitches icon on
z Grandma’s Glasses board. Do again with
Head/shoulders.
z Xylophone: discuss how
high/low work on the
instrument

z Mary Wore Her Red z I have a little Pony z Mary Wore Her Red z Xylophone: play
Lesson 2

Dress (beat buddies) Dress: Use D-9 from upward and

z Roller Coaster z Lullaby: Mammy, resource book; tap each downward to the
Mammy Told Me-O pitch icon story Mortimer;
z Here I come..; sing “high” teacher does
or “low” while reading students watch
pitch icons

z Review all known

songs, chants, and
Lesson 3

singing games (will

be attending the
Colorado Music
Educators
conference)
z Roller Coaster; move z Xylophone: play
Lesson 4

arms upward and upward and

downward with the downward to the
music. story Mortimer;
students play.
z Introduce Sol-Mi;
Here I come…
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 • Recalling known songs
by pictures • Copy Movement
• Echo • Play to steady beat • Identify High/Low
• Recall song by hearing • Personal Space
the melody

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Knuckles and knees z Hello (MusicK8) z Identify songs from the z Carnival of the Animals z Symphony No. 94
(Jim Gill) teacher singing on a “The Aviary” & “The (Surprise); Move It!
Lesson 1

z Freeze ! (MuiscK8 neutral syllable, no Elephant” 2 DVD without the

14/2) pictures video, with teacher
z Mitten Song (Share
the Music)
z Just from the
z Merry-Go-Round
Kitchen: create
(Making Music)
movements
z Cookie Jar Stretch z RL: upward/downward z Symphony No. 94
(Mr. Eric & Mr. (Share the Music) (Surprise); Move It!
Lesson 2

Michael) z Magic flute: “Der Holle 2 DVD, without the

Rache” & “In diesen teacher
heil” (Making Music)
Lesson 3

z Making Music
assessment; high/low
Lesson 4

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 • Identify High/Low
• Play a steady beat
through sounds or
while singing a song
• Long/Short pictures
• Clap the words of the
• Identify sounds as long
song
or short

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Burnie Bee z Burnie Bee game z Teacher sings “Old Blue” , z Speak in high and
z Old Blue (Making students listen for long low voices
Lesson 1

Music) sounds, raise their hands z Identify high or low

or make a long motion sounds using
z Here is a Beehive
z Sing several times, guess instruments and
(FingerPlay)
how many long sounds pictures
and what words the long
sounds were on (dog,
blue, too)

z Doggie, Doggie z Burnie bee; pat beat, z Identify long sounds in z Listen to woodblock
z Who has the Penny? clap words Doggie, Doggie (bone, and resonator bells ;
Lesson 2

(Making Music) home) decide which is long

z Engine Engine z Engine Engine; follow sound and which is
pitches, use head and short.
Shoulders to show
high/low

z Doggie Doggie z Show high/low by z Identify pictures as

Lesson 3

z Do, Do Pity My following the melodic being high or low;

Case contour of the song then play pitch on
(doggie doggie) steps bells
z Enging Engin; Sol-mi
use PowerPoint
(Music a la Abbott)
z Button You Must z Echo clapping in four
Lesson 4

Wonder beat patterns without

words

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 • Recalling known songs • Play long sounds on
• Single circle mixer
• Echo by pictures specific words
• Identify long/short • Copy short and long
• solo • Recall song by hearing • Create new text to a
movements
the melody song

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Skinnamarink z Who has the penny? z RL; improvising long z Valentine Dance
z Buzzing in the and short (Share the (Making Music)
Lesson 1

Garden; Peter & Music)

Ellen Allard

z Sing When the z Sing a song while z Play resonator bells z A Clock at Night (Share z Sylvia Pizzicato
Spirit Says Sing (Mr. clapping the rhythm on the long words of the Music) Polka; Move It! 2
Lesson 2

Eric & Mr. Michael) of the song “Old Blue” DVD

z Sylvia Pizzicato z Sylvia Pizzicato

Lesson 3

Polka; identify Polka; without

long/short use signs video, with the
teacher
z Create new text (Do
Do Pity My Case)

z Identify songs from the z Sylvia Pizzicato

teacher’s rhythm Polka; without the
Lesson 4

clapping; teacher.
z Using
pictures

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 • Play a steady beat
while singing a song • Identify sounds as long
• Long/Short
• Clap the words of the or short
song

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Five Little Bunnies z Echo clapping four z Tie My Shoe; track high z Old Blue; play z Point to picture
(I’m Growing Up beat patterns without and low, show high/low resonator bells on charts representing
Lesson 1

book) words with head and shoulders the long words four beat rhythm
z Rhythm sticks with (dog=A, blue= G, phrases while
z One two Tie My
steady beat switch to too= F) singing the song
Shoe
rhythm (use songs
they know)

z Queen, Queen z Turn Cinnamon Turn; z Echo clapping in z Tie My Shoe; use z Tap steady beat on
Caroline beat buddies four beat phrases PowerPoint for Sol- the board/individual
Lesson 2

z Lullaby: Baloo Balerie with short-long Mi work. charts

words
z Tie My Shoe; put
numbers on floor,
words on rhythm
sticks

z Punchinello z Rain, Rain; track pitches, z tap rhythm on the

Lesson 3

z Rain, Rain use hands on head and board

shoulders

z Spring Break
Lesson 4

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 • Recalling known songs • Play long sounds on
• Single circle mixer
• Echo by pictures specific words
• Identify long/short • Copy short and long
• solo • Recall song by hearing • Create new text to a
movements
the melody song

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Elephants Have z Charlie Over the z Identify songs from the z Kinderpolka (Step
Wrinkles Ocean; solo, game teacher’s rhythm Lively); individual,
Lesson 1

z Mother Gooney clapping; using pictures no partners

Bird

z Kinderpolka (Step
Lively); individual,
Lesson 2

no partners, without
teacher

z La La La (Mr. Eric & z Echo play in four z Kinderpolka (Step

Lesson 3

Mr. Michael) beat phrases with Lively); with

short-long words partners

z Create movements

z Spring Break
Lesson 4

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 • Play a steady beat
while singing a song • Identify sounds as long
• Long/Short
• Clap the words of the or short
song

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Queen, Queen z Identify rhythm z Rain, Rain
z Cinderella at the patterns and songs as PowerPoint; Sol-Mi
Lesson 1

ball alike/not alike work.

z Show rhythm of a song
z Rain, Rain
using rectangles and
squares

z Point to picture z Point to picture z Use picture icons to

cards with charts while saying show the rhythm of
Lesson 2

rectangles and or singing short-long; the song (use songs

squares on known also do sol-mi they know)
songs

z Identify same and

Lesson 3

different patterns
from picture cards z On the board; have
based on songs they students notate the
know. rhythm of the song
Lesson 4

z Use manipulatives;
student notate the
rhythm of the song
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 • Recalling known songs • Play long sounds on
• Personal space
• Echo by pictures specific words
• Identify long/short • Following directions
• solo • Recall song by hearing • Create new text to a
• Single Circle Mixer
the melody song

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Fred the Moose; z Review all known z Echo play four beat z Baa, Neigh, Cock-a- z Stop on a Dot;
Learning Station echo songs phrases on various Doodle-Doo; students Kindermusik
Lesson 1

z One Green Jelly classroom lead z Bow, Wow, Wow

Bean instruments
z Sounds on the
Farm; Kindermusik

z Looby Loo z Identify songs from the

z I saw Five Fish; teacher’s rhythm
Lesson 2

Susan Salidor clapping

z Introduce Mystery
Song

z Mystery Song z Who’s that

tapping: identify
Lesson 3

classroom
instruments
Lesson 4

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 • Play a steady beat
while singing a song • Identify sounds as long
• Long/Short
• Clap the words of the or short
song

Rhythm Melody Practice

Songs/Chants Prepare Present Prepare Present Reading/Writing
z Review all known z I have a Little Pony;
songs beat buddies
Lesson 1

z Lullaby; rurru
(kindermusik)

z Notate rhythms with

craft sticks
Lesson 2

z Last Week of
Lesson 3

school
Lesson 4

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 • Recalling known songs • Play long sounds on
• Single circle mixer
• Echo by pictures specific words
• Identify long/short • Copy short and long
• solo • Recall song by hearing • Create new text to a
movements
the melody song

Practice
Instruments/
Just for Fun Part Work Inner Hearing/Memory
Improvisation
Listening/Form Movement

z Who’s that tapping; z Hunt the Cows;

identify classroom Share the Music
Lesson 1

instruments
Lesson 2

z Last week of school

Lesson 3
Lesson 4

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