First Grade Music Lesson Plans

November 10 - 14, 2008

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Go over music for Mass

Go over Christmas music

Unit 3 Lesson #2 (pp T106-T109)
Focus: Tempo, getting faster and slower

          1) Get Set
                   Follow Lesson
                             “Little Red Caboose” (CD2:46)

          2) Develop
                   Follow Lesson
                             1. Gradually move faster and slower to “Little Red Caboose”
                             2. Speak a word phrase, getting faster and slower
                                      Big Book pp 32-33

       3) Apply
                   Follow Lesson
                             Introduce “The Story of Epaminondas” (pp T128-131); Speak a phrase of a story, getting faster and slower

          4) Close
                   Follow Lesson

Friday, November 14, 2008

Go over Christmas music

Unit 3 Lesson #3 (pp T110-111)
Focus: Movement; Walking

          1) Get Set
                   Follow Lesson
                             “Cobbler, Cobbler” (CD2:42)

          2) Develop
                   Follow Lesson
                             1. Walk through shared space and identify home place
                             2. Introduce “Stop and Go” (CD2:47); Walk and stop

          3) Apply
                   Follow Lesson
                             Review “Ambos a dos” (p T104); Move in different ways to the beat
                             “Ambos a dos” (CD2:43)  ~OR~
                             English version (CD2:45)