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Name: Juan Rivera

District: LAUSD
School: Nora Sterry Elementary
Subject: General Music
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Date of lesson: 10/22/15
Lesson Plan: No. 1

Goin to the Monster Mash

National Standards for Music Education

Imagine: MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or


motives).
Creating: MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as
beat and melodic contour)
Connect #11: MU: Cn11.0.Ka Demonstrate understanding of relationships between
music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.
Analyze: MU:Re7.2.Ka With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such
as beat or melodic direction) is used in music

California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards

1.0 ARTISTIC PERCEPTION - Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory


Information through the Language and Skills Unique to Music.
1.2 Identify and describe basic elements in music (e.g., high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft, beat).

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION - Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music


2.3 Play instruments and move or verbalize to demonstrate awareness of beat, tempo,
dynamics, and melodic direction.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.

3.0 HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT- Understanding the Historical


Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Music
3.1 Identify the various uses of music in daily experiences.

5.0 CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, APPLICATIONS - Connecting and Applying


What Is Learned in Music to Learning in Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to
Careers.
5.1 Use music, together with dance, theatre, and the visual arts, for storytelling.
Objectives:

1. To understand the concept of beat through body percussion and speech rhythm.
2. To develop the understanding and recognition of moods in music related to the traditions of
Halloween
3. To experience descending melodic contour through singing and movement.

Equipment and Supplies:

1. Speakers with Auxiliary input


2. PowerPoint slides
3. Book:
3.1 The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills
4. Composer cut-out name tags/ Invitation card
5. Ukulele
6. Classical guitar
7. Music:
a. Beethovens Symphony no. 5 1st mvt.
b. Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King
c. J.S. Bach: Toccata in d minor
d. Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
e. Bobby Pickett: Monster Mash
f. Bus sounds effect

Procedures:

1. Introductions:
a. Music Teacher: Good Morning boys and girls!! How are you all doing on this
amazing day?

2. Sing good morning song.


a. Sing first, and then have students sing along
Music teacher: Great job everyone!!
3. Establish quiet time rules

(Get out a big clock with seconds hands)

Music Teacher: As you can see by the seconds hand moving, it is keeping a steady beat while
keeping time. Music is all around us. What else that beats is either in us or in our environment.

Ex.: A heartbeat(find sound clip).


4. Ask the class to feel their heart and play to the beat of it.
Music Teacher: Ok, lets play a little game. Can everyone look at the clock, more specifically,
the little needle there. Try to clap you hands to that beat.

(Demonstrate. Once everyone is doing it I can move forward)

Music teacher: Now, Lets keep clapping and play a little game. Lets go around the room and
introduce ourselves.

5. Activity #1: The Clapping Game


a. As a class, we will be clapping in a steady beat and as we do that, we will go around
the room and introduce ourselves by saying our names out loud to the class. This will
serve two purposes;
1: It will teach the student to develop coordination between the body and
speech
2: It will facilitate the passing of nametags, as I will ask a classmate to
hand them out to the appropriate student.
b. Go around have each student tell the class what is their favorite color or animals.
Music Teacher: Very good children. That was wonderful! Ok chilfren, what did we just finish
doing?

(By asking this question, I am hoping to get a response that tells me they know we are keeping
time or a beat and then once we figure it out, I will talk more about it.)

Music Teacher: Now let's move on with something much more fun. Can anyone tell me what
month we are on right now?

(Wait for students to raise hands, if no one wants to volunteer, ask more questions to elicit a
response)

Music Teacher: More specifically, what do we normally celebrate at the end of this month.

(Hopefully someone says Halloween and I say)

Music teacher: Yes! Thats Correct (Students name) It is almost Halloween! And what do we
do during Halloween (Might get a number of different responses like)

1.We get to go trick or treating and get candy

2. Dress up in our favorite costumes

3. But most important of all, we tell each other ghost stories and go to a Halloween party

(Someone plays Toccata in d minor)

Music Teacher: Guess what kids, We got invited to a Halloween party!!


(Ask the students to open their nametags and see the invitation)

Music Teacher: But before we can go to the coolest Halloween party, we need to know more
about it so that we can enjoy and appreciate it better. Lets listen to some spooky music.

5. Activity #2 part 1: Listening Examples:

Play the following pieces:

a. Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King


b. Saint Saens: Dance Macabre
Activity Part #2:

1. Tell a story using these pieces and use the music to help illustrate it.

6. Once done telling the stories, I will tell the class that It is time to go to the party but we need
to go take the bus.
Music Teacher: It is a little far away from here so we will have to take the bus. Want to get
ready!?

(Pretend as a class to be walking to the bus stop by having a classmate hold up print out across
the room of a bus stop sign)

Music teacher: The bus is here! Lets go in to go celebrate Halloween!!

(We all get in the bus by lining up behind the lines in front of the projector.)

Music Teacher: It will be a little while until we get to the party. Why dont we sing a song!

(Cue everything ready for the song)

7. Activity #3: The Spooky Wheels on the Bus


Playing a reinterpretation of the folk song The wheels on the bus go round and
round.
Play the first verse for them and then have them join in.
Once the class can sing it without accompaniment, add the Ukulele.
Make sure they sit up straight while they sing
(Once we have sung the song enough time, I will signal to a classmate to cue the bus sound
effect.)

Music Teacher: Sounds like we are here! Lets get off the bus

(Everyone pretends to get off and we do the same thing we did earlier and pretend the party is
across the cassroom. As this is happening, one of my classmates will change the slide to a
Halloween party background and cue the song, The Monster Mash.)

Optional: Hand out percussion instruments so the students can play along with the beat of
the song

Music Teacher: Did you all have fun?

(Wait for responses)

Music teacher: What did you learn today? Raise your hand.

8. Sing goodbye song.

Evaluation:

1. Poorly executed lesson plan.


2. Students didnt really learn anything
3. I was unable to communicate clearly with the class which led to a lot of problems throughout
my lesson
4. Badly executed song by the teacher
5. Bad time management

Extension:
1. Go more in depth into why the music sounds like Halloween in terms of dynamics, timbre,
instrumentation etc.
2. Have an activity where students get to create their own spooky sounds with instruments and
share with the class.
3. Sing other songs related to Halloween.

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