UNIT PLAN- GRADE 1 December

3 Lessons
Generative Topic: In this month, students will be getting excited about the winter holidays coming up,
and will therefore be a little more active and excited than normal. Therefore, I think it is important to
incorporate that excitement into their regular day to day classes. I will therefore be planning to use
student enthusiasm to create my various lessons by planning songs, games, and activities that relate to
the holidays and snow while still maintaining a focus on the requirements in the program of study.
Unit Title: Winter and Holidays
Big Idea: By the end of this unit, students will understand how to accompany simple melodies using
instruments
Essential Questions:

1. How does music reflect my feelings about the holidays?

2. How could I create a conversation using my voice?
3. How can I use instruments to accompany my songs?
Concepts Taught:

Understand that music reflects feelings about

culture and holidays
Listen to and enjoy seasonal music from different
cultures
Learn how to accompany songs with instruments
Echo back rhythm patterns
Recognize suitable sound effects for stories
Create singing conversations

Activities:

Basic simple beat and rhythm echos

Simple paper quizzes for students to depict rhythmic
patterns
Songs related to December and Winter using So, Mi
and La
Jingle bells
Up on the housetop
Hanukah is here
Dance for Hanukah
La Piata
Oh What Fun
Various Holiday Songs
Basic beginner instruments showing beat and
rhythm
Listening to The Nutcracker Music and using that to
encourage movement

Curricular Outcomes:

EX6- Music reflects our feelings about holidays, seasons,

our country and cultural heritage

L7- Be aware of and enjoy seasonal, holiday and ethnic

music

PI7- Accompany songs, stories and poems with

appropriate instrumental effects

PI4- Echo rhythm patterns

CR1- Use suitable sound effects for poems and songs

CR3- Create singing conversations

Materials Needed:

Grade 1 Game Plan

Singing Games Children Love
Movement in steady beat

Assessment
Assessment Tool
Observational
checklist to assess
students students
ability to correctly
echo rhythmic
patterns while
singing

Outcomes

Paper quiz to
assess students
understanding of
non pitched
percussion
instruments

Observational
checklist to assess
students students
ability to create
vocal
conversations
using ethnic and
holiday songs

Description

EX6- Music reflects our

feelings about holidays,
seasons, our country and
cultural heritage
L7- Be aware of and
enjoy seasonal, holiday
and ethnic music
PI4- Echo rhythm patterns

For this assessment, the teacher will

assess student ability to echo basic
rhythmic patterns

EX6- Music reflects our

feelings about holidays,
seasons, our country and
cultural heritage
L7- Be aware of and
enjoy seasonal, holiday
and ethnic music
PI4- Echo rhythm patterns
PI7- Accompany songs,
stories and poems with
appropriate instrumental
effects
CR1- Use suitable sound
effects for poems and
songs

For this assessment, the teacher will

assess student ability to accompany
melodies and holiday poems using
basic Orff and non pitched percussion
instruments

PI7- Accompany songs,

stories and poems with
appropriate instrumental
effects
CR1- Use suitable sound
effects for poems and
songs
EX6- Music reflects our
feelings about holidays,
seasons, our country and
cultural heritage
L7- Be aware of and
enjoy seasonal, holiday
and ethnic music
CR3- Create singing
conversations

For this assessment, the teacher will

assess student ability to create singing
conversations and use instrumental
accompaniment to holiday and ethnic
songs

For

As

Lesson Summary
Lesson

By the end of the lesson, students

will be able to

Assessment/
Evaluation

Echo back rhythmic patterns in

association with holiday and ethnic
songs

Observational checklist
to assess students
students ability to
correctly echo rhythmic
patterns while singing

Accompany songs and poems with

appropriate instruments and sound
effects

Paper quiz to assess

students understanding
of non pitched
percussion instruments

Create singing conversations using

seasonal, holiday and ethnic music

Observational checklist
to assess students
students ability to create

vocal conversations
using ethnic and holiday
songs

Activities

Hanukah is here
Dance for Hanukah
La Piata
Oh What Fun
Basic simple beat and
rhythm echos

Hanukah is here
Dance for Hanukah
La Piata
Oh What Fun
Basic simple beat and
rhythm echos

Listening to The
Nutcracker Music and
using that to
encourage movement
Various Holiday Songs
Basic beginner
instruments showing
beat and rhythm