Mrs. Galanopoulos' Music Class: Lesson Plans August 26-September 6

Kindergarten

Seat students in their spot on the floor
Sing "My Poor Hand is Shaking" while shaking different body parts to the beat. Students will have an opportunity to come up with different body parts to shake.
Go over the music class rules. (See picture)
Sing "Goin' to the Farm" - We will discuss different animals we might see at the farm. Stop when we get to the ducks.
Sing "Listen to the Ducks". Students will listen for the sound the ducks make. Then we will sing and clap only on the words. Quack Quack Quack
Introduce the rhythm sticks. Smoothie and Bumpy and different ways to play them.
Students will now click their rhythm sticks on the words "Quack, Quack, Quack" for the song "Listen to the Ducks". Teacher will accompany on the Bass Xylophone.
Listen to Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Discuss the different kinds of sounds we heard. Loud!! and soft and quick and the instruments making those sounds.
The students will play their rhythm sticks to the music. On the Four Note Theme (Da, Da, Da, Dum!) students will tap the sticks on the ground. For the quick and quiet part students will scrape or rub their sticks together.
Take up sticks and practice line up procedures.

Seat students in their spot on the floor
Review our different kinds of voices from Kindergarten. Speaking, whisper, singing, and calling(playground) voices. Practice it with a poem.
Connect the volume of our different voices to a variety of dynamics. Using the what's our dynamic? Chart. (see picture)
Go over the music class rules. (see picture)
Play follow the leader. Students will copy the teachers movements and practice keeping the steady beat to music. We will be listening to J.S. Bach, Suite No. 2 in b minor: Badinere.
We will sing the song "Welcome Back to School". The song asks "Can you clap and count to eight?" Students will then practice clapping the steady beat and counting to 8. We will substitute clap for other actions like -snap, jump, stomp, etc.
Then we will add instruments to play on the counting to eight. The instruments we will be playing are: woodblock, tambourine, triangle, cow bell, hand drum, and guiro. Students will take turns playing the instruments. We will sing the song multiple times to give each student a chance to play several instruments.
Put the instruments away in their correct spots and practice the line up procedures.

What's our Dynamic? Volume Check Chart

March in to the beat of Mr. Drum
Seat students in their spot on the floor
Play name game "Each Peach, Pear Plum". Students say the poem while patting a steady beat on their lap. Each student takes a turn to say their name(Ex. My name is Mrs. G). The class then repeats their name back(Ex. Her name is Mrs. G). Then the game continues around the room until all the students have said his or her name.
Go over the music rules. (see picture)
Rhythm Echos. Students will echo a rhythm given by the teacher using body percussion. Body percussion includes clapping, stomping, patting, and snapping.
Melody Training. We will learn about the Solfege hand signs So and Mi and practice echoing with the hand signs.
Learn the poem "Go! Go! Go!". Add clapping to the words one, two, three and go go go. Practice the poem with clapping while the teacher plays a different rhythm on the drum. Practice the poem with internalizing the words.
Introduce the hand drums and different ways to play them. Add the hand drums to replace clapping in the poem. Our goal is to internalize the poem while playing our drums.
Students will put the drums away and practice line up procedures.

Music Class Rules