Every grade
level is capable of different activities and musical concepts.
The elements of music include duration, pitch, form, dynamics,
timbre, texture, and style. Each grade level different deals
with these same elements on a different level. The National
Standards for Music Education singing, playing, improvisation,
composing, reading/writing, evaluating, listening,
understanding music in relation to other subjects, and
understanding music in relation to history and culture are
experienced in different ways for each grade leve Kindergarten
might be showing the pitch going up and down through movement
and 5th graders read music that has a variety of pitches.
Every lesson I created during student teaching was created
with a specific grade level in mind. Using both textbooks
helped me create lesson plans to meet the developmental
capabilites and musical capabilities of my students. My lesson
plan page has all my lessons organized according to the week
and grade level.
Lesson
Plan Page
In
my composition unit Kindergarten, first grade, and second
grade worked with rhythm cards to to create rhythm
compositions using quarter notes and eighth notes. They then
took those rhythm compositions and improvised a melody on Orff
instruments. Third, fourth, and fifth grade students figured
out the rhythm to a poem, composed melodies using that rhythm,
and then had to notate those melodies on the music staff. Each
grade level was creating a composition, but the expectations
for final product were different for each grade level.
Composition Lesson Plan for Kindergarten, 1st,
2nd
Manipulatives
used for Composition Lesson Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd
Composition
Lesson Plan for 3rd, 4th, 5th (Week 1)
Composition
Lesson Plan for 3rd, 4th, 5th (Week 2)
Sample
of sample of student work 3rd grade
During student teaching I would use the
first day that the students were at class to introduce a
musical concept and then the second day I would reinforce and
review the same musical concept through a new experience or
song. This whole idea of reinforcing a concept in another is
evident in my first grade lessons on AB form for first grade
during week 13. The first day they experienced AB form through
the Mexican Hat Dance. The second day that they came to music
they experienced AB form in the song Old Dan Tucker. We then
created different forms using the A and B section of the piece
such as a ABA, BAB.
Lesson Plan - Week 13 - Grade 1/Day
1
Lesson
Plan - Week 13 - Grade 1/Day 2
Additional
Artifacts
Lesson Plans from Field Experience
at Southside High School, MUSED 356
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