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A music lesson plan on Rhythm and Dynamics
Subject:
Music
Grades:
2, 3
Dawn Roberts
Nov. 4, 1997
#651120
T255 Lesson Plan
Song:
Who Has the Penny?
Materials Needed:
poster
with rhythms, safety pin and penny
Musical Activities:
Listening,
singing, clapping
Musical Concepts:
Rhythm
and dynamics
Grade Level:
2
nd
grade
Goals:
1) To show children
that music is fun by playing a game.
-
To practice a steady beat and to add a rhythm
to the beat.
Objectives:
1) Students
will clap the rhythms that appear in the song.
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Students will practice dynamics by humming softly
and singing loudly, or with full voices. -
Students will keep a steady beat while learning
the rhythms.
Introduction:
Tell the students that they will be learning a new
rhythm called an eighth note. Ask them to pay close attention
and listen carefully for the difference between an eighth note
and a quarter note.
Procedures:
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Begin clapping a steady moderate beat. Ask the
children to join in and to try to match your beat, reminding them
not to speed up or slow down. -
Ask them to stop and listen. Have them direct
their attention to the board where a poster displays the following
rhythms in 2/4 time: quarter eighth-eighth quarter quarter and
quarter eighth-eighth quarter rest. Clap the rhythms and have
them echo you. -
Now divide the group in half. Tell them that
they will each have a very important job to do. One group will
keep the steady beat while the other claps the rhythm on the board.
Repeat switching roles. -
Next, introduce the song "Who Has the Penny?"
by singing it all the way through. Ask the students to clap the
beat while you sing. Then switch, you clap the beat while they
sing the song. -
Ask the students to stand up and form a circle.
Show them the penny and the safety pin and tell them that you
are going to play a game using the song they just learned. Have
the students close their eyes and hold their hands out. Hum the
song softly while you give the penny to one student and the safety
pin to another. When the song ends, whoever has the penny and
the pin in their hands will sing the appropriate lines as you
sing the song loudly (with a full voice). After playing the first
time, let the children pass the penny and the pin on to other
students.
Closure:
Ask the children to identify which word of the song
occurs on the eighth-eighth pattern.
Evaluation:
Teacher watches and listens while the students are
clapping their rhythms. Also, make sure that they know the difference
between humming (softly) and singing (loudly).