Grade 2-3: Lesson #14

SUBJECT TEACHER GRADE DATE

General Music Mr. Pascual 2nd 3rd April 25, 2017

TEACHER GUIDE

MATERIALS Rhythm sticks

Solfege Staircase Exit Ticket

PROCEDURES I. Welcome to Music

II. Pitch Matching: Greeting and Getting Acquainted
a. Teach greeting to students.
III. New Song: Rocky Mountain
a. STARTING PITCH: A#4
b. Pass out lyrics to students
IV. Solfege: Ickle Ockle
a. Review known hand signs
b. Introduce new hand signs (La Sol)
i. Use solfege staircase to provide visual for students to
understand the high-low relationship between each
syllable/sound
ii. Identify where each syllable/sound belongs on the
staircase
c. Do different combinations and have them echo.
d. Next, work on identifying the solfege syllables of Ickle Ockle
i. First, identify the highest and lowest sounding words in the
song by showing the highs and lows with gross body
movements.
ii. Establish that the highest word in the song corresponds to
the syllable la and the lowest sounding word corresponds
to the syllable do.
iii. Have students figure out the rest of the syllables of the
song.
e. Sing song with kerwin hand signs, and then in solfege.
V. New Game Song: Obwisana
a. Make a circle (sing 2,4,6,8)
b. Practice keeping a steady beat in different ways. (Heart beat and
patting lap)
c. Keep steady beat by passing rhythm sticks around in a circle.
d. Pass sticks to the beat of Obwisana
VI. Exit Ticket:
a. Pass out solfege staircase exit ticket and have students complete
before the end of class.
VII. Sing Goodbye
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OBJECTIVES To practice pitch matching skills

To engage with music through body movement

To distinguish beat vs. rhythm

To practice identifying high and low sounds in well-known songs

To practice deriving the solfege syllables of the melody of a well-known song

HOW DID
CLASS GO?