Half Note Lesson Plan PDF
Half Note Lesson Plan PDF
Half Note Lesson Plan PDF
Lesson 2-8
Kinesthetic Preparation of Halfnote
Lesson Objectives
1) Preparation of Halfnote,:
Essential Question What does two beats of sound feel like
Activating Strategies Learn Ghost of John, Learn Bluebird, Learn Whos That Knocking at the
Window.
Teaching Strategies Perform actions to help convey two beats on one sound using Bluebird
movement activity.
2) Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a new game: Whos That Knocking
at the Window.
3) Practice of Familiar Element:
Teaching Strategies Use bow wow wow to practice the hand signs for do. Practice playing
xylophones on phrase one of bow wow wow.
4) Learning a New Song and/or game to prepare the next element:
Summarizing Strategies The Ghost of Tom, Blue Bird, Whos That Knocking at the Window
Writing
Rocky Mountain, Cymbals
Lesson Objectives
1) Preparation of Halfnote,:
Essential Question What does two beats of sound sound like?
Activating Strategies Learn
Teaching Strategies Perform actions to help convey two beats on one sound using Bluebird
movement activity.
2) Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a new game: Whos That Knocking
at the Window.
3) Practice of Familiar Element:
Teaching Strategies Use bow wow wow to practice the hand signs for do. Practice playing
xylophones on phrase one of bow wow wow.
4) Learning a New Song and/or game to prepare the next element:
Summarizing Strategies The Ghost of Tom, Blue Bird, Whos That Knocking at the Window
Objective 4 New Song I Had a Dog and His Name was Blue CSP E
Listening Example
In The Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
1. Teacher introduces Edvard Grieg as a composer from
Norway.
2. This is from a collection of pieces of music called Peer
Gynt Suite, and each piece of music tells a different
story. This is one of the more exciting stories.
3. Peer sneaks into the Mountain Kings castle, and this
piece shows him trying to escape from the Mountain King
and his trolls.
4. Students keep a steady beat by tip-toeing silently around
the room and discover where the long sound is in the
phrase (at the end; the last two beats)
Objective 2 Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a
new game
Part 2 Practice of do
5. Reading
Objective 3 During Aural Awareness practice the following skill areas: and notating
Reading music.
T Students identify the following phrases and the song that they
come from:
Figure out what song the pattern is from
Sing the song
Figure out the solfege, then entire class sings solfege
Write solfege names on board and fill in notes as we go
along.
Pattern One
Pattern Two
Rocky Mountain
Pattern Three
Pattern Four
Writing
Students grab markers, boards, erasers, and staffs
Students aurally identify do in the following pattern (beat three)
and write it on the staff:
s m d
Students aurally identify do in the following pattern (beat three)
and write it on the staff:
s s d
l s m d
l s d
Improvisation
Students vocally improvise short descending musical motives
using la, sol, mi, and do, but changing the rhythms.
Ex.
l s m d
l l s m d
Lesson Objectives
1) Preparation of Halfnote,:
Essential Question What does two beats of sound sound like?
Activating Strategies Learn
Teaching Strategies Perform actions to help convey two beats on one sound using Bluebird
movement activity.
2) Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a new game: Whos That Knocking
at the Window.
3) Practice of Familiar Element:
Teaching Strategies Use to practice the hand signs for do. Practice playing xylophones on
phrase one of bow wow wow.
4) Learning a New Song and/or game to prepare the next element:
Summarizing Strategies Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Students sing first verse and learn new verse, then they make up 1.
their own verses. Kids create one phrase to sing three times and a Students
related phrase for the fourth one. singing
alone and
Objective 4 New Song: Let us chase the squirrel CSP D with
others.
1. Teacher sing songs and students keep beat
2. Teacher asks questions
How many phrases? (4)
How many beats per phrase (4)
What is a hickory? (tree)
3. Students echo sing phrase by phrase
Part 2 Practice of do
5. Reading
Objective 3 During Aural Awareness practice the following skill areas: and
notating
T Writing music.
Button You Must Wander
Students get boards, markers, erasers, and staffs.
Teacher sings phrase by phrase on a neutral syllable and students
write down the notation.
Between each phrase, have a student write each phrase when they
get it right.
Reading
Teacher writes a four beat phrase on the board using d, r, m, s, and
la.
Ex.
SMRD
Have each student write down their own phrase using four quarter
notes and our known notes
Lesson Objectives
1) Preparation of Halfnote,:
Essential Question What does two beats of sound sound like?
Activating Strategies Learn
Teaching Strategies Perform actions to help convey two beats on one sound using Bluebird
movement activity.
2) Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a new game: Whos That Knocking
at the Window.
3) Practice of Familiar Element:
Teaching Strategies Use to practice the hand signs for do. Practice playing xylophones on
phrase one of bow wow wow.
4) Learning a New Song and/or game to prepare the next element:
Summarizing Strategies Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Presentation of Halfnote
Assessment Assessment of do
Students write out the music from Rocky Mounting on
solfege.
Lesson Objectives
1) Preparation of Halfnote,:
Essential Question What does two beats of sound sound like?
Activating Strategies Learn
Teaching Strategies Perform actions to help convey two beats on one sound using Bluebird
movement activity.
2) Movement Activity; development of movement skills or teaching a new game: Whos That Knocking
at the Window.
3) Practice of Familiar Element:
Teaching Strategies
4) Learning a New Song and/or game to prepare the next element:
Summarizing Strategies Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Review Presentation
Presentation of Halfnote
Initial Practice
Mmrrddtlsl
Wouldnt it be chilly with no sin on?
Transition to Blue
Mmmrdrmss
I had a dog and his name was blue
Write it out in trad. Notation
Mfs mfs
Transition to Are You Sleeping
Brother john, brother john
Write it out in trad. Notation