1st Grade August Week 3
Resource: MusicPlay Grade 1 Music Program Materials: Photos of voices and voice page for students
Beat charts, colored sticks
Theme: Welcome Back to School Materials: voice chart, beat/rhythm signs
Concept: Vocal model, high/low voices, beat/rhythm , quarter note and eighth note pairs ta titi
1. I Don’t Know Movie Type of vocal model, adult male, children’s choir, child solo, child speaking
2. Grandma’s Glasses Poem 9b Demonstrate high low voices
3. Counting Song PPT Beat/rhythm identification, sounds on a beat ta titi
I DON’T KNOW
Use Movie 10. Students will identify singing and speaking voices.
1. Show pictures of male adult voice, children’s choir singing voices, child solo singing voice and child speaking solo and review
2. Hand out identification paper with all four voices on it. Have students point to voice they hear as they listen to the song “I Don’t Know”
3. Describe what the children’s choir voices sound like
4. Repeat movie having students sing “I don’t know” responses
5. Which voice does the choir use? Shouting, singing or speaking
THESE ARE GRANDMA’S GLASSES
In a high voice: These are Grandma’s Glasses, This is Grandma’s hat. This is the way she folds her hands and lays them in her lap.
In a low voice: These are Grandpa’s glasses, This is Grandpa’s hat. This is the way he folds his arms and then he take a nap!
Use Poem 9a. Students will use high and low voices while reciting poem.
Teacher will demonstrate poem with actions and appropriate voicing. Students will learn poem and recite with actions and appropriate voicing.
COUNTING SONG
Use PPT12. Students will demonstrate beat and rhythm. Students will demonstrate one and two sounds on a beat.
Slide 2 – Sing and pat the beat. Sing and tap rhythm in palm of hand
Slide 8 – read slide and explain that we will sing the song and students will either keep the beat or rhythm depending on what card the teacher holds up
Slide 2 – teacher holds up beat sign first and switches to rhythm in the middle. Do this game several times until everyone can switch between the two properly.
Slide 9 – hand out beat charts to students to use with singing song, touch beat
Slide 10 – touch rhythm
Slide 11 & 12 – discover sounds on beats
Hand out colored sticks and have students use one for ta and two for ti-ti to show rhythm of the song
If time permits
Slide 13, 17-20 So/mi high/low
MO GLE’s
PP1A Reproduce/echo melodies in limited range so/mi. Singing using a head tone
PP1C Perform a varied repertoire of songs
EM1A Read simple rhythm patterns using iconic notation using quarter note, eighth note pairs
AP1A Distinguish between music opposites high/low
AP1B Differentiate between male, female, and children’s voices