Hi everyone! This is Aileen from Mrs.Miracle’s Music Room. As I dive into writing lesson plans for this week, I
thought I’d write a blog post with a Kindergarten lesson that worked really
well for my students and I this past month.
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A little background about my Kindergarteners: I see them
once a week for thirty-five minutes, and have six classes. At this point in the
year, I’m about to present steady beat, have taught loud/quiet and fast/slow,
and have done lots of vocal exploration.
With this lesson, students were brought into the room
follow-the-leader style with me chugging like a train, and then we chanted
“Engine Engine.” I had them wind into a circle as we said the chant two or
three times, and then we sat down.
Then, we sang “Here we are together,” which is to the tune
of “The more we get together.” The lyrics I use are:
Oh, here we are together, together, together,
Oh, here we are together in music today.
With Mrs. Miracle, and Macy, and Jenna, and Scott, and
Michael, etc…
(sing all of the kids’ names around the circle)
Oh, here we are together in music today.
On the “day” part of “today,” I have students hit the
ground. If there is an even number of students in the class, you’d sing your
name again at the end to even it out.
After that, we move onto greetings, in which I sing to
students “Hello, Kindergarten,” and they sing back, “Hello Mrs. Miracle” on
sol-mi. I ask them questions like “How was your weekend?” or “What’s your
favorite color?” and then answer back as a group (with lots of answers being
sung at the same time) and then I call on individual students. I use a toy
microphone which students love to sing into, and then write down on a rubric of
1-4 how students sing so I can track their pitch-matching.
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