“Welcome to School” – echo imitating good vocal qualities
“Put Your Finger On Your Lip” – learning class rules
“Count and Go” – review counting while doing activities
“Join in the Game” – imitate vocal qualities and explore body percussion
“You’ve Got to Sing” – imitate vocal qualities and explore body percussion
“Open, Shut Them” – develop inner hearing by doing actions
“This Is My Speaking Voice” – learning the four types of voices
“Cookie Jar” – develops a steady beat, instills confidence, allows all students to take on a
leadership role
“Follow, Follow Me” – develops singing voice, helps students devote attention to each
other, and develops leadership skills
“A Smile Goes A Long, Long Way” – develops good singing skills and teaches spelling
“One Two Three” – steady beat rhythmic activity with action and movement
“Hickety Tickety” – develops and evaluates singing voice of each student
“Do You Want To Be My Friend” – works with singing voice and helps students learn
how to make friends
“Order in the Court” – vocal exploration poem
“Gingerbread Man” – vocal participation story with a moral!
“I Am A Pizza” – echo song to develop good vocal quality – discussed the four food
groups
“Andy Pandy” – identify rhyming words
“Autumn Leaves” – singing the descending and ascending scale with movement
Sang scale on solfeg
Played scale on step xylophones
Played scale on Boomwackers
Identified space notes on the music staff
Listened to “Air” by Johann Sebastian Bach
Listened to “Badinerie” by Johann Sebastian Bach
“I’m Glad I have a Nose” – discussed five senses, develop self-esteem, and sang about
the many attributes of the nose
“I Get A Happy Feeling” – introduced metronome, worked on a steady beat, worked with
a variety of tempos, evaluated steady beat, develops self-esteem
“Stop, Look, and Listen” – singing about safety, using large motor skills
“October Is Here” – singing, counting, reviewing the months of the year