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Music Lesson Plan

Grade/Class: 4k Week:
Prepare: Expressing music qualities, Music Experiences Music Elements
such as dynamics, vocal exploration, x Speaking Rhythm
and tempo x Singing x Pitch
Present: xx Listening x Tempo
Moving Form
Playing x Dynamics
Practice: Reading Tone Color
Writing Texture
Creating Style
Lesson Objectives: Children explore musical expressive qualities with their voice and gestures

Assessment: Children accurately match gestures and expressive qualities to the given prompts
Key Tone set Materials Song/Activity/Procedure Objectives/Standards/Goals
B flat mi, to mi N/A Opening: Good Morning N/A
and welcoming students,
getting them used to my
voice. Transition: Good
morning boys and girls. It
is a beautiful morning out!
But Im not sure what
season were in this
morning. Can someone
raise their hand and tell
me? (Answers that its
fall/autumn) It is fall! And
what kind of food do we
eat in the fall?

C do to la N/A Primary Focus: Two Little (Singing) Children use voices

Apples sing song using to sing along and sing a
calculated gestures to go descending line from sol to
along with each phrase. do. (responding) children
Invite them to sing along respond to the different
with reassuring facial tempos suggested, speeding
expressions. Have students up or slowing down as
decide how fast or slow suggested.
they sing, depending on
the speed of animals.
Transition: Now that all
of our apples have fallen
down on the ground, its
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time to see what other

food is on the ground.
Maybe pumpkins? Lets
stand up and form our
own pumpkin patch
around the room.

F do to la N/A Change of Pace: Pumpkin, (Responding) Children

Pumpkin- teach song and respond to the end of the
walk around the room and song with a facial expression,
at the end of the song, signifying the end of that
each child makes a face like music idea. (Movement)
theyre a jack-o-lantern. Moving spatially around the
This varies from time to room and interacting with
time as the instructor gives peers.
the children different
emotions each time.
Transition: Now this time,
everyone with (color of
shirt) will walk back to the
carpet and when we sing
just like that theyll be
sitting and waiting and
patiently.

N/A N/A Book: Secondary Focus: Read (Responding) Children will

Because of an Acorn. respond with their voices to
When identifying lifeforms greet the lifeforms
in the book, we will say expressed in the book after
hello to all of them in being prompted by the
various degrees of instructor.
dynamics. Transition: So
acorns can fall to the
ground and grow, just like
pumpkins! Remember our
pumpkin patch from
before? Lets all go back to
where we put ourselves in
our classroom garden and
this time were going to
act like leaves. Lets all
stand up and walk slowly
like leaves to our spots.
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N/A N/A N/A Change of Pace: Autumn (Movement) Locomotor

Leaves Rhyme recite requiring spatial awareness
rhyme with motions and around the room
move like leaves around (exploration) vocal
the room. Transition: exploration along with the
Lets all move like leaves movements in the rhyme
slowly back to our spot on
the carpet.

B flat mi, to mi N/A Closing: Good bye and N/A

bookending the lesson with
the same song from the
beginning but with
different ends. This tune
marks the beginning and
ending of the lesson.