WEEK 8: Second Grade

Standards:
#1: singing a varied repertoire of music
#2: Performing on instruments
#4: Composing and arranging
#9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture
Goals:
Students will sing with their just right singing voices
a) Correct pitch
b) Appropriate tone
c) Unison and round
Students will move to music using self-control and musically
appropriate choices
Students will dance to traditional folk dance with correct
movements
Students will compose motif that represents an animal and
compose a duet combining two motifs
Experiences:
1. Hello
2. Old King Glory
3. Little Johnny Brown
i)
Last weeks version
ii)
New edition
Lay your comfort down: one person in middle
Fold down the corner: person in middle folds cloth,
everyone claps
Show us your motion: person makes up dance move
in middle
We can do the motion: everyone mimics
Take it to a friend now: switch
4. Donkey song
i)
New for Wednesday
ii)
Round for Tuesday
5. Riding on a donkey
i)
Echo hand motions (start with one, add one more each
time)
ii)
I add words to the chorus
iii)
Class adds words to chorus

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v)

Stand up
Sing whole song! (Verses are echoed)
Have you ever been to Quebec?
Have you ever been to Nepal?
Have you ever been to Egypt? (reading hieroglyphic
script, see the mummy in a crypt)
Have you ever been to the moon?
Have you ever been to the sea?

6. SASHA
i)
Intro: Can anyone count to three in another language?
Russian = ras, dva, tre
ii)
This is a Russian dance, Sasha is a Russian nickname for
Alexander or Alexandra
iii)
Demonstrate Sasha, sasha, ras, dva, tre
iv)
Everyone do it
v)
Everyone in partners around room
vi)
Right, right, right, left, left, left, both, both, both, pat, pat,
pat x2 (have partners model it)
vii) Swing 7, HEY on 8 x2 (right then left)
viii) Dasvadanya
ix)
Practice a few times, then add music
7. Creature duets (more than five minutes)
i)
Sitting in circle
ii)
Think of an animal. Picture it. How does it move? Fast or
slow? What does it sound like? Is it scary? Is it friendly?
iii)
If you had to play a piece of music to be your animals
theme song what would it be? Will you make the sound
with your voice or with an instrument?
iv)
Everyone pick out an instrument, sit in own space, and
practice song
v)
Find a partner, and think of how your two animals go
together. Would they be friends? Would one try and eat the
other? Would they be scared of each other?
vi)
A duet is music where two people sing or play together. In
your duet, will you play at the same time? Or will one of
you play and then the other? What will your animals sound
like together?
vii) Volunteers to perform
8. 5 minutes or less at endtelephone song, somebody waiting,
Charlie, elephant pat (try not in a circle)
Assessment:

Listen that students are singing with their just right singing
voices
Observe that students are moving to music using self-control and
making musically appropriate choices
Observe that students will dance to traditional folk dance with
correct movements