Plan at a Glance:
Part 1: Entrance -
Entrance Song / Objectives / CMs / Steps and Skips / Score (20 min)
Part 2: Movement -
Stretch / Videos / Score (20 min)
Part 3: Lesson -
Boomwhackers / Hispanic Heritage Month / Score (15 min)
Part 4: Wrap Up -
Line up / Recap / CMs - Star Students Recorded / Score / Dismiss
Objectives: Today we will
Recognize that pitches go up and down like steps
on pitched percussion instruments, and
on a piano keyboard.
Review steps on the glockenspiel
Play skips on the glockenspiel
Pick Concert Masters
SCORE Entrance
Introduce Steps and Skips (use the music on the board)
Have 1 student from each carpet get 1 or 2 glockenspiels from the small brown boxes on the wire rack by the door for his/her carpet. (each person shares 1 with the person sitting next to them - move kids around till everyone has a partner.)
Explain steps using the system on the top. Have them play the notes to the track below.
Notes going from space to the next line or line to the next space are STEPS.
Notes going from space to the next space or line to the next line are SKIPS.
Review steps up and down the glockenspiel to the steady beat of the track
Play skips up and down on the glockenspiel to the steady beat of the track.
Part 2: Movement - Stretch/Videos/Score
SCORE Movement Entrance
Part 3: Lesson - Hispanic Heritage Month / Boomwhackers (15 min)
For boomwhackers:
Concert Masters get dark green boomwhackers (G),
Orange Carpet gets orange boomwhackers (D),
Yellow gets yellow boomwhackers (E),
purple gets purple boomwhackers (A),
blue gets pink boomwhackers (B),
green gets light green boomwhackers (F),
Red gets red boomwhackers (C),
Part 4: Wrap Up
Line up / Recap / CMs - Star Students Recorded / Score / Dismiss