Session One

Children’s Club Lesson Plans

Session One

Children’s Club Lesson Plans

Standards, Outline, and Standards, Outline, and MaterialsMaterials

Inspired by the book: Shoo Fly Recording sources are included to provide a model for instructor to follow. Music Standards addressed: Children will: • Sing, alone and with others, various styles of music • Perform on instruments, alone and with others, various styles of music • Create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations Children will: • Develop balance, control, and coordination • Develop self-awareness • Emphasize give-and-take social interaction • Express activities and feelings of everyday life • Raise their level of consciousness of how to move, where to move, and how parts of the body feel

while in action Literacy Standards addressed: • Listen to and follows two-, three-, or four-step oral directions • Speak clearly and loudly enough to be understood Musical Background: Musically, early childhood is a time of vocal and rhythmic preparation. Establishing beat competency and development of the singing voice are priorities. Children need to have experiences without expectation or judgment. Playing Musical Instruments: Instruments should be handled with care, and the teacher should model and encourage their appropriate use. Demonstrate appropriate and in- appropriate ways of handling and playing the instruments. Teachers should distribute instruments only when its time to play them. Outline for Children’s Club:

5 minutes Warm-Up Activity (Hello Everyone Song) 10 minutes Literacy and Text to Song Connection 15 minutes Song with Instrument Connection 5 minutes Transition Song (for gathering instruments) 5 minutes Song without Instruments 5 minutes Closing Activity (Goodbye Song)

Session Set-Up: Children should be sitting on the floor in a circle looking at the instructor. Children’s Club

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Session Materials: Shoo Fly!, guitar (optional for instructor), piano (optional if available), and instruments per child: wrist bells, shakers, rhythm sticks, rain sticks (for older children)

Title of Warm-Up Activity: Hello Everyone Length of Time for Activity: 5 minutes Format of Activity: Children should be sitting on the floor in a circle looking at the instructor. Materials: guitar (optional) Note to Teacher: Playing guitar as you sing the song is optional.

Directions: 1. As children come into the class, tell them to gather into a circle and sit down.

2. Once in a circle tell the children to stay in one place, explaining that they have their

own personal space and they should keep their hands to themselves.

3. Inform children of the expectation that there is no talking while the teacher is

talking and they should raise their hand if they have something to say.

4. Tell children you are going to teach them a greeting song called Hello Everyone.

5. Sing the song once for the children to teach them the

tune and the words.

6. Invite children to wave to one another and shake each others hands

throughout the song.

7. Allow the children to sing the song together until each child has been greeted.

Hello, Everyone Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

(Repeat song until every child has been greeted) Hello, hello everyone

Let us gather for some fun Shake your neighbor by the hand

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Hello, hello everyone Now we’re ready for some fun!

(Insert two names at a time instead of word everyone in the first and fifth phrase) Title of Literacy and Text to Song Connection: Shoo Fly Length of Time for Activity: 10 minutes Format of Activity: Children should be sitting in a circle looking at the teacher holding the book. Materials: Shoo Fly Note to Teacher: A potential recording source for a Shoo Fly tune is http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/shoofly/htm Directions: 1. Show children the book cover of Shoo Fly! by Iza Trapani and ask, “What can you tell

me about flies?” (Potential responses might be: They buzz. They fly in your face.)

2. After the children have given responses, read the book to them by singing the words.

3. During the “sing” aloud, invite children to wave their hands when you sing, “Shoo fly.”

4. Teach children the following song by singing it to them.

Shoo Fly Shoo fly, don't bother me. Shoo fly, don't bother me. Shoo fly, don't bother me, for I belong to somebody.

I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star, I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star.

5. After singing the song, ask the children, “Can you tell when to wave the fly away?

How many times does the fly get chased away in the song?” (three)

6. Invite the children to sing the song with you one time.

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Title of Song with Instrument Connection: Shoo Fly with Wrist Bells Length of Time for Activity: 8 minutes Format of Activity: Children should be sitting in a circle. Materials: wrist bells (per child) Directions:

1. Tell the children that you are going to sing the song Shoo Fly again but this time you

are going to include an instrument.

2. Ask the children to sing as you model how to play the wrist bells to the beat of the

song.

3. Once you have modeled, give each child his/her own set of wrist bells.

4. Instruct the children to shake the bells to the beat as you sing the song together

again.

5. Explain to the children that beat is the pulse of the song.

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Title of Song #2 with Instrument Connection: Rain, Rain with Shakers, Rhythm Sticks, & Rain Sticks Length of Time for Activity: 7 minutes Materials: shakers and rhythm sticks (per child); rain sticks for children ages 7-12 Note to Teacher: Playing guitar as you sing the song is optional; a potential recording source for a Rain, Rain tune is http://www.cycnet.com/englishcorner/listening/child/raingo/swf Directions: 1. Remind the children that they have been practicing the BEAT of songs.

2. Tell them they are going to practice the beat one more time while singing a song

about rain.

3. Sing the song once for the children to teach them the tune and the words.

Rain, Rain

Rain, rain, go away! Come again another day.

All the children want to play.

4. Model for children how to tap the beat on your knees as you

sing.

5. Give half of the group a shaker to use and half of the group

rhythm sticks to use.

6. Model each instrument. Children with the shakers will play

along with the first phrase. Children with rhythm sticks will

play along with the second phrase. All children will play along

with the third phrase.

7. Older students will play the rain stick at the end of each phrase to mimic rain.

8. Invite the children to sing the song with you a few times while they play along with

their instruments as modeled.

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Title of Transition (for gathering instruments): Put Your Things Away Length of Time for Transition: 5 minutes Materials: guitar (for instructor) Directions: 1. Teach children the song Put Your Things Away by first playing and singing the song

for them.

Put Your Things Away

Tune: The Farmer in the Dell Put your things away. Put your things away.

Oh so carefully - Put your things away (Repeat song until all items have been put away)

2. Ask the children to sing the song one time with you as you play the guitar and sing.

3. Once the children know the song, ask them to sing the song with you as they take

turns putting their instruments away and returning to their seat.

4. Continue singing until all of the instruments have been put away and children are back

in their seats.

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Title of Song without Instruments: This Little Light of Mine Length of Time for Activity: 5 minutes Note to Teacher: Playing guitar as you sing the song is optional ; A potential recording source for This Little Light of Mine is http://tsc.kidsmusicweb.com/songs/this-little-light-of-mine.html Directions:

1. Sing the song This Little Light of Mine to the children.

2. Talk with children about the beat of the song.

3. Sing the song again and invite children to sing along.

4. Allow children to make up hand motions to match the lyrics of

the song.

This Little Light of Mine

This little light of mine,

I’m gonna let it shine.

This little light of mine,

I’m gonna let it shine,

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

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Title of Closing Activity: Goodbye Song Length of Time for Activity: 5 minutes Format of Activity: Children should be sitting on the floor in a circle looking at the instructor. Note to Teacher: Playing guitar as you sing the song is optional. Directions:

1. Tell children you are going to teach them a goodbye song.

2. Sing the song once for the children to teach them the tune and the words.

Goodbye Song

Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

It is time to say goodbye.

It’s time to say goodbye.

Wave, wave, wave, wave.

It’s time to say goodbye.

3. Invite children to wave goodbye to one another throughout the song.

4. Allow the children to sing the song together two or three times.

Goodbye!

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Words to Songs used in Session One:

Hello, Everyone Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

(Repeat song until every child has been greeted) Hello, hello everyone

Let us gather for some fun Shake your neighbor by the hand

We’ll be leaders of the band Hello, hello everyone

Now we’re ready for some fun! (Insert two names at a time instead of word everyone in the first and fifth phrase)

Shoo Fly

Shoo fly, don't bother me. Shoo fly, don't bother me. Shoo fly, don't bother me, For I belong to somebody.

I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star, I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star.

Rain, Rain Rain, rain, go away!

Come again another day. All the children want to play.

Put Your Things Away Tune: The Farmer in the Dell

Put your things away. Put your things away. Oh so carefully - Put your things away.

This Little Light of Mine This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine,

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Goodbye Song Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

It is time to say goodbye. It’s time to say goodbye. Wave, wave, wave, wave. It’s time to say goodbye.

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Musical Musical TerminologyTerminology

Beat: A beat is a pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece; for every tick on a metronome, each tick is a beat. Dynamics: Dynamics normally refers to the softness or loudness of a sound or note. Pitch: Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. Rhythm: Rhythm is the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds.

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Tempo: The tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is an extremely crucial element of sound, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.

The modules presented here were funded in part by the Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education as part of the Virtual School Readiness Incubator Project, the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families as part of the Early Learning Opportunities Act/Bringing Education and Support to Teachers, Parents and Children (ELOA/BEST) Project, and the Florida Institute of Education at the University of North Florida. These prototype materials are still indevelopment and refinement and should be used with this caution in mind. The content of these modules does not necessarily reflect the views or policies or imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and/or the University of North Florida.

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