Lesson Plan April 4-15, 2011

Kindergarten

• Bean Bag toss: follow bean bag toss with voices going up and down, students will toss the bean bag individually and make the sounds of the bean bag going up and down
• Listen to new short song Pitter Patter and tap fingers for raindrops while listening: explore different ways to show raindrops to the music
• Frog in the Meadow: students will sing solos "Froggie, Froggie, Please come out and play with me." before Froggie will come and play with each student
• Review song Naughty Kitty Cat, introduce instruments that have a scratchy sound to be used while singing the song.
• Read the story Bad Kitty and add the song with instruments everytime Kitty does something bad.

1st Grade

• Review Sol-La-Mi and learn the SoLaMi game.
• Play the sound detective game. Listening to two sounds at one time and identifying the instruments using pictures.
• Read the story Yellow Umbrella with instruments added. Everytime I touch a Yellow Umbrella the finger cymbals play, and when the page turns the Rainsticks play
• Down by the Bay: students will continue to make up rhymes and sing as a solo if they would like.

2nd Grade

• Sol-La-Mi Game.  Add Solfege Re and Do and add the new rule of not saying Mi-Do-Do
• Using Easter egg shakers echo various rhythms that will be used next week when composing rhythms.
• Read the story Yellow Umbrella with instruments added. Everytime I touch a Yellow Umbrella the finger cymbals play, and when the page turns the Rainsticks play. Pass instruments to the next person after each page.
• Down by the Bay: students will continue to make up rhymes and sing as a solo if they would like.