Lesson Plans

Tideo (p.80)
Unit Topic: Melody- Pentatonic

Lesson #: 1

Grade level: 2nd

Lesson Objectives:
1. SWBAT sing the melody to Tideo
2. SWBAT chant ostinatos underneath the melody that is being sung
Standards/Benchmarks:
1. 1:1 Sing and play independently, on pitch and rhythm, with appropriate diction,
posture, and tempo
2. 2:1:4 Sing simple ostinatos
3. 2:1:10 Use Curwen hand signs to read pentatonic patterns
Methods of Assessing Objectives:
1. Formative assessment
Materials: Tideo
Procedures:
1. Walk in song
a. Join your hands
2. Hello song+Name song
3. Sing Tideo with students (w/hand signals)
a. Review ostinato (remember playing it on bells?)
b. You can also use your voice to sing an ostinato
4. Split class into 3 groups
a. Melody
b. Ostinato- Jingle at the window
c. Ostinato- Tideo
5. Explain what the Jingle at the window Ostinato is doing
6. Have melody and JATW ostinato sing together
a. Check for understanding
7. Add in Tideo ostinato, explaining their role
8. Have melody and 2nd ost. Sing together
a. Check for understanding
9. Have all three groups sing together
10. IF TIME- Play game w/ost. Incorporated in

11. Goodbye Song

Oh, Watch the stars (p.144)
Unit Topic: Melody- Pentatonic
Grade level: 2nd

Lesson #: 2

Lesson Objectives:
1. SWBAT sing oh, Watch the stars
2. SWBATplay 2 ostinatos on metallophones (orff) while the melody is sung
Standards/Benchmarks:
1. 1:1 Sing and play independently, on pitch and rhythm, with appropriate diction,
posture, and tempo
2. 2:1:10 Use Curwen hand signs to read pentatonic patterns
Methods of Assessing Objectives:
1. Formative assessment
Materials: Oh, watch the stars, Mallet Instruments
Procedures:
1. Walk in song
a. Join your hands
2. Hello song+Name song
3. Rhythm Cards
4. Sing oh, watch the stars to students
a. Review ostinato (remember playing it on bells?)
5. Teach Oh, watch the stars using echo pattern
a. Oh, watch the stars, see how they run
b. Oh, watch the stars, see how they run
c. The stars run down at the setting of the sun
d. Oh, watch the stars, see how they run
6. All sing Oh, watch the stars
7. Introduce mallets and ostinatos
a. Have students sing Oh, watch the stars as CT and TA play ostinatos
8. Explain Rules of playing
a. Play how they are supposed to be played, rhythm rest, ready position, you
get what you get and you dont throw a fit
9. Choose students to play ostinatos
a. We only pick friends that are doing their job
10. Have each student play their ostinato 2x alone
11. Have ostinatos play together 2x through
12. Have students sing with ostinatos
13. Have students stand and crouch down on the word down in the song
14. Switch students playing ostinatos
15. Goodbye Song
a. Goodbye, Farewell.

The Farmers Dairy Key (p.182)

Unit Topic: Melody- Pentatonic
Lesson #: 3
level: 2nd
Lesson Objectives:
1. SWBAT sing the melody to The Farmers Dairy Key
2. SWBAT sing a melodic ostinato to the melody

Grade

Standards/Benchmarks:
1. 1:1 Sing and play independently, on pitch and rhythm, with appropriate diction,
posture, and tempo
2. 2:1:4 Sing simple ostinatos
3. 2:1:10 Use Curwen hand signs to read pentatonic patterns
Methods of Assessing Objectives:
1. Formative assessment
Materials: The Farmers Dairy Key
Procedures:
1. Walk in song
a. Join your hands
2. Hello song+Name song
3. Sing The Farmers Dairy Key to students (w/hand signals)
4. Teach The Farmers Dairy Key using to students using echo pattern
a. I lost the farmers dairy key
2nd Time: A brass key and a silver lock
3rd Time: A corn stalk fiddle and show string bow
b. Im in this ladys garden
c. Do,do, let me out
d. Im in this ladys garden
5. Introduce bells and ostinatos
a. Have students sing TFDK as TA sings and plays ostinato
6. Explain rules for instruments (1-4)
7. Choose students to play ostinatos
a. We only choose friends who are doing their job
8. Have each student play their ostinato 2x through alone
9. Have rest of students sing with ostinatos
10. Switch students playing ostinatos
11. Goodbye song
a. Goodbye, farewell

Great Big House (p.204)

Unit Topic: Melody- Pentatonic
Lesson #: 4
level: 2nd
Lesson Objectives:
1. SWBAT sing Great Big House
2. SWBAT perform movements while singing melody

Grade

Standards/Benchmarks:
1. 1:1 Sing and play independently, on pitch and rhythm, with appropriate diction,
posture, and tempo
Methods of Assessing Objectives:
1. Formative assessment
Materials: Great Big House
Procedures:
1. Walk in song
a. Join your hands
2. Hello song+Name song
3. Sing Great Big House to students
4. Teach Great Big House in chunks, using echo pattern
a. Great big house in New Orleans, forty stories high
b. Every room that Ive been in, filled with pumpkin pie
c. Went down to the old mill stream to fetch a pail of water
d. Put one arm around my wife, the other round my daughter
e. fare thee well my darling girl, fare thee well my daughter
f. Fare thee well my darling girl, with the golden slippers on her.
5. All sing Great Big House
6. Incorporate movements into each section of song
a. House, 40 stories high, pumpkin pie
b. One arm around my wife, the other round my daughter
c. Fare thee well, fare thee well, golden slippers on her.
7. Have students sing melody and do movements while they stand in the circle
8. Have students move around the circle and perform movements while singing
melody
9. If time, let students vote one a game to play
10. Goodbye song
a. Good bye, farewell

See-Saw Sacradown (p.208)

(used to keep time on a see-saw)
Unit Topic: Melody- Pentatonic
Lesson #: 5
Grade level: 2nd
Lesson Objectives:
1. SWBAT sing See-Saw Sacradown
2. SWBAT Play 2 ostinatos on Boomwhackers
Standards/Benchmarks:
1. 1:1 Sing and play independently, on pitch and rhythm, with appropriate diction,
posture, and tempo
2. 2:1:10 Use Curwen hand signs to read pentatonic patterns
Methods of Assessing Objectives:
1. Formative assessment
Materials: See-Saw Sacradown
Procedures:
1. Walk in song
a. Join your hands
2. Hello song+Name song
3. Sing See-Saw Sacradown to students (w/hand signals)
4. Teach S-SS to students using echo pattern
a.See-Saw Sacradown
b. Which is the way to London town
c. One foot up, the other foot down
d. That is the way to London town
5. All sing See-Saw Sacradown
6. Introduce Boomwhackers and ostinatos
a. Have students sing See-Saw Sacradown as CT and TA play ostinatos
7. Explain rules of instruments (1-4)
8. Choose students to play ostinatos
a. We only choose friends who are doing their job
9. Have each student play their ostinato 2x through alone
11. Have rest of students sing with ostinatos
12. Have students raise and lower each foot on one foot up, the other one down
13. Switch students that are playing ostinatos and repeat song w/foot movement
14. Goodbye song
a. Goodbye, farewell