MUSIC LESSON PLAN

Author(s): Jenna Reagan

Subject: Class/Period: Date:

General Music 1st/ 2nd grade 11/29

Learner Outcomes: - Students will be able to sing “A Fox Went Out on a Starry Night” and identify rhythm syllables
- Students will be able to sing Pumpkin Pumpkin and perform melodic contour body percussion
Language Objective:
National Standards:
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

Elements of Music & Experiences of Music:

Dynamics Tone Color Tempo Rhythm Pitch Texture Form Style

Speaking Singing Moving Creating Playing Listening Reading Writing

Resources:
“A Fox Went Out On A Starry Night” folksong and rhythm icon cards
Sound story “Two Kittens Went to the Zoo”
Recording of “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
“Pumpkin Pumpkin” folksong

Introduction:
Have you ever seen a fox before? Where do they live?

Process:
Students pat beat as teacher sings “A Fox Went Out” (ST:1)
Class writes rhythm to song using rhythm icon cards (ST:6)
Teacher reads sound story “Two Kittens at the Zoo”; students perform vocal exploration
Students step to each note in “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and decide movement for rests
What happened in the music? (Accelerando, crescendo) (ST:6)
Teacher sings “Pumpkin Pumpkin” while showing melodic contour with body percussion (ST:1)
Students form into partners and get into a circle facing each other and perform this clapping pattern: clap own hands, clap
partner’s hands, clap own, partner’s etc. Hold hands on fat; change places on “turn into a jack-o-lantern”; outside circle takes a step
to change partners on “that”

Closure:
What did we call the note for the really big fox? (half note)
How many beats did the half note get? (2)

Assessment:
participation during rhythm cards

1
 correct movement in Pumpkin Pumpkin (beat competency)
aural evaluation of singing
kinesthetic evaluation of accelerando during “In the Hall of the Mountain King”

Extension: Learn all lyrics to A Fox Went Out and create a musical where students act as characters in the song (there are more than
one of each character etc.)