Second Grade - Lesson 3A

• Music
• Age 5

Introduction (5 minutes)

Greet the students and introduce the K-Piano equipment and learning system.

Provide an overview of the lesson objectives and what students can expect to learn.

Class Expectations (5min)

• Read over classroom expectations for the Little Fingers class.
• Have students describe what these behaviors look like and don't look like.
• Example: A good choice is following directions. A silly choice is to be laughing at your friends.

Movement Activity

This movement activity at the beginning of class gets the wiggles out and helps mentally prepare students for the start of class.

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

• Choose a video from either 3 slides

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

• Choose a video from either 3 slides

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

Choose a video from either 3 slides

Vocal Exploration (3min)

Ask students "What kind of shapes do you see?"

*You will need to guide students to identify a line up, a line down, and a squiggle*

Ask students to use their pointer finger and draw each line with you. You will also need to direct students to follow lines from left to right. Also use the colors so students know which line you are following.

"Now you will use your finger and your voice when you follow the line"

Demonstrate the first line using a siren tone start low and slide up using your pointer finger and your voice. Exaggerate the siren as much as possible. 

Have students sing with you and draw the line.

On the next slide you may ask students to draw their own shapes to use for their singing voice. 

Ask about 3 students to give you a shape to sing

Vocal Explorations

Use this slide to draw different shapes or ask students to give youa shape and have them sing it.

Blank Slide

*next slide is for instructor reference only*

Rhythm Echoes

*Instructor will stop sharing screen*

Invite students to pick a place to show a steady beat on their body. 

Instructor chooses one student’s example to demonstrate a steady beat. 

"Keep your steady beat and echo me."

Instructor reads rhythms four beats at a time using neutral syllable "bah."

Students echo.

Once all rhythms are read, repeat using rhythm syllables (quarter note = ta, quarter rest = no sound, eighth notes = ta-ti; refer to rhythm syllable cheat sheet if needed)

Proceed to next slide for continuation of this activity. 

Rhythm Echoes continued 

Read rhythms using rhythm syllables (quarter note = ta, quarter rest = no sound, eighth notes = ta-ti; refer to rhythm syllable cheat sheet if needed)

Students echo.

Teacher Script

"Challenge time! Remember, I say 'bah.' You say..."

Ta and ta-ti.

Instructor reads rhythms a third time, 4 beats at a time using neutral syllable "bah" while students echo using rhythm syllables "ta" and "ta-ti".

Blank Slide

*next slide is for instructor reference only*

Body Piano

*instructor will stop sharing screen*

Tonal Echoes

The instructor uses body piano and sings each measure, one at a time, on a neutral syllable "bum." Students echo each measure

Once all the patterns have been sung, repeat each measure but sing using the words "high" and "low"

"Now I have a challenge. I am only going to sing 'bum.' Your job is to echo it back using high and low. So, if I sing (instructor sings and shows first measure on body piano), you will sing..."

High, low, high, low.

Repeat with each measure 

High/Low Reading Activity

"Now I want to write the song. What note did you start on?"

High

Instructor moves one dot to high.

"What note came next?"

Low

Instructor moves another dot to low.

Continue this process until the first line of the song is written. 

Invite students to sing what is written.

Snowflakes on Xylophone

"Now we are going to get out our xylophones. Remember, when we carry our xylophones, we carry with how many hands?"

2

"We carry on the top or bottom?"

Bottom

"The big red bar goes on the ...?"

Left

"And the little green bar goes on the...?"

Right

After students get their xylophones

"So using one finger, I want you to put your finger on sol. What color is sol?"

Dark green

"Use one finger on your other hand and put it on mi. What color is mi?"

Yellow

"Now I want you to play what we just read. Remember, we read 'sol mi sol mi' (instructor remember to sing this!). Use your fingers and your singing voices to practice this. You have 5 seconds."

Students practice playing pattern with fingers while singing. 

"Let's try together. Ready and here you sing." (Instructor sings starting pitch)

Students sing and play pattern using fingers. 

"So that song was 'Snowflakes.' I want you to sing the song."

Instructor gives starting pitch. Students sing song with words.

"Raise your hands when you hear the pattern we just played."

Instructor gives starting pitch, students sing and raise hands on measures 1-2 and 5-6. 

"Sing the song again. This time, I want you to play 'sol mi sol mi' (instructor remember to sing) when you hear that pattern."

Instructor gives starting pitch, students sing song but only plays on measures 1-2 and 5-6.

We will finish playing the song in the next lesson.

Movement Activity

This movement activity at the beginning of class gets the wiggles out and helps mentally prepare students for the start of class.

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

• Choose a video from either 3 slides

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

• Choose a video from either 3 slides

Little Fingers - Lesson 1

Movement Activity Videos

Choose a video from either 3 slides

Lesson Recap

Recap with students what they learned.

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• Steady Beat
• Low and High Sound