What is happening in this lesson?

• Hello Song: Keeping a steady beat on different parts of the body
• Vocal Play: Warms up their voices and helps them learn how to sing and use their voices
• Seashells: Differentiating high and low notes and showing the notation on the music staff (students will be putting the notes on their own music staffs)
• Composer Movement Activity: Preliminary analyzing of the piece by using different actions to show different and same parts of the music
• Differentiating the difference between beat and rhythm in music. This will help them figure out the rhythm of songs later on
• Rhythm reading: Shows reading goes from left to right, symbols equal sounds, and instill confidence in their musical abilities
• Sign Language: Reinforces language learning skills

National Music Standards present inside this lesson:

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

5. Reading and notating music

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music