Music Engagement for Primary Grades

First (3 minutes)
Let’s Sing & Play (Hello Song) C Major/Duple
•lead students in a hello song
•warm up singing voices
•move different body parts with flow and steady beat
•utilize different dynamics and audiation
 
Second (3 minutes)
Old MacDonald G Major/Duple
•continue to work with singing voice placement
•use call & response to encourage student singing
•move with steady beat
•introduce animals to be used later in the lesson
 
Third (2 minutes)
Who Stole my Chickens & My Hens D Major/Duple
•reinforce call & response singing “Not Me”
•reinforce singing voice placement
•encourage audiation
•utilize different dynamics
 
Fourth (14 minutes)
Minoeska Recording of a Russian Folk Dance-Shenanigans
•introduce students to AB form (same & different)
•lead stationary movement to different sections
•lead locomotor movement to different sections
•encourage students to create their own movements
•identify the form (AB) of the listening example

 
Fifth ( 3 minutes)
Little Green Frog C Major/Duple
•reinforce singing voice placement
•reinforce AB Form
•move body parts with steady beat
•demonstrate and encourage vocal improvisations in major tonality with individual “frog songs”
 
Sixth (2 minutes)
 Review concepts of the day
•singing voice, steady beat, audiation, call & response, AB form, movement types, improvisation
 
Seventh (2 minutes)
Goodbye Song
D Minor/Triple
•lead students in goodbye song to acculturate them to minor tonality