Pre-Kindergarten Lesson 9 - Week

Concepts: create (movement, new verses,, create actions, high-low, movement, dramatize a song,

Teaching Objectives: • Learn how to sing loud and quiet• Make Animal Sound cards• Play games and sing songs about kitties

I Can Statements:• I can sing loud• I can sing quiet• I can tell the difference between loud and quiet sounds

Save paper and ink! Just read the PDF and don’t print it. All the instructions are given in the module on

www.musicplayonine.com.

Song Used: Time For Music Sing Time for Music with the lyrics video.

Count the beats at the end of each verse.Count the beats out loud.

Think up new ways that you could keep a beat, and sing your new verses.

Numeracy: Counting is numeracy! Cut out 8 hearts and have children tap on the hearts as they count. Take 2 away. Have them count the hearts now - 1-2-3-4-5-6.

Activity #1: Sing the Opening Song, Time for Music

Teaching Procedure

Warm up voices with the Slide Whistle Video.

Activity #2: Warm Up Your Voice!

Echo Mrs. Gagne with animal rhythms.

Activity #3: Animal Rhythms

Play the video and listen to the poem “Five Little Kitties”

Play the video again and say the poem with the video.

Activity #4: Listen to the Poem “Five Little Kitties”

Watch the kids demo video of five little kitty.

Can you act out the Five Little Kitties poem like the kids in the video?

Activity #5:Watch the Kids Demo Video of “Five Little Kitties”

In the video the song is sung three times.The second time it’s sung quietly, the last time it’s sung loud.

Activity #6: Review “MMm Ahh Went the Little Green Frog”

While you listen to “Quiet and Loud Movement” move to the music like frogs move.

Show with your movements when the music is loud and when the music is quiet.

Activity #7: Move to “Quiet and Loud Movement”

Print and cut out the animal sounds cards or save paper and ink, and make your own.

To make your own cards, draw pictures of the animals and print their sounds under them.

As you listen to the song, point to the animal card that shows the animal you are singing about.

Activity #8: Make Animal Sound Cards

Listen to the song “When Cats Get up in the Morning”.

Put your animal cards in order as you sing the song.

Activity #9: Listen to “When Cats Get Up in the Morning”

Listen to the song “Old Gray Cat”

Pretend to be the cat and then the mouse in this song.

Activity #10: Listen to “The Old Gray Cat”

Watch the kids play the “Old Gray Cat” game.The kids are pretending to be the cat and the mouse.

Play the video again and act out the song like the kids in the video.

Activity #11: Watch the kids play the “Old Gray Cat” Game

Repetition is important for young children.

To learn a song well, they need many repetitions of a song.

Review Lesson 1 and 2 modules.

Keep a list of your favorite songs, and use the SEARCH tool to find them quickly

Activity #13: Review Other Lessons or Songs

Your teacher might ask you to send something to show you’ve done the

lesson.

Assessment Suggestions:

Teacher’s Notes:

Parents, Teachers and Administration:

Music education is important for children.

Whether in class or at home, keep our children singing, playing, moving,

listening and creating music!

Music IS literacy