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Dates: 2/6/18-2/12/18
Goal: Students will be able to distinguish between high and low pitches and perform solfege
syllables “sol, mi, la” on pitch.
Essential Question: How can you distinguish between high and low sounds through listening,
singing, moving and playing? How can we show a melodic pattern?
Materials:
Snail Puppet
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• Wind-up Activity: Class grabs hands and forms a circle. Teacher leads the line at the
other end and move in a wide circle, slowly winding the line up tight around the
stationary person. After all around wound up tight, the outer coil wheels sharply in a
contrary direction and all follow.
• Sol-mi
• Mi-sol
• Sol-sol-mi
• Mi-mi-sol
• Sol-mi-sol-mi
• Sol-sol-la
• La-la-sol
• Discuss up and down: sing pitches and point to step visual on the board
• Think-Pair-Share:
• When we go from mi-sol are we going up or down?
9:45 Teach “Snail Snail” with solfege syllables by continuation of repeat after me.
• Sol-mi
• Sol-mi
• Sol-sol-la-la
• Sol-sol-mi
• Sol-mi-sol-mi
• Sol-sol-la-la-sol-sol-mi
• Sol-mi-sol-mi-sol-sol-la-la-sol-sol-mi
• “Bow-wow-wow” Stomp-stomp-stomp
• “Little Tommy Tuckers dog” Right arm swing with partner and switch places with
your partner
10:03 Line up