Kindergarten Engine Engine #9

Standard: MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and
melodic contour)

Objectives: Students will pat/clap the rhythm of Engine Engine #9 while speaking the rhyme.

Materials: Engine Chart projected on board. Computer, projector

Activity #1: Pat/ Clap the rhythm of Engine Engine #9

1. Show S the chart of engines

2. Ask them what they notice about the engines (Big/ Small)
3. T asks is there a pattern to the engines?
4. T & S speak the words Big/ Small while T points to each engine
5. When the engine is small we pat, when it’s big we clap/
6. T demonstrates
7. T&S practice this slowly
8. T tell S to keep practicing their pats and claps while T says the rhyme
9. T asks if the rhyme was the same rhythm or different
10. T shows next slide where it has the words over the engines
11. T teaches rhyme by echo while encouraging S to continue patting/ clapping

Assessment: S can pat/ clap the eighth and quarter note rhythm while also speaking the rhyme.

Transition: Have S stand up and find their own music bubble in the room.

Activity #2: Put the rhythm in your body.

1. T will demonstrate the rhyme while putting the rhythm into stomps/ hops
2. T will ask students instead of patting/clapping what did I do?
3. T will ask students did I hop or stomp on the big engines? What about the small?
4. T will have S do the same movement as we hop/ stomp around the room.
5. T will ask S what other movement can we do for the small engines?
6. What other movement can we do for the big engines?
7. T will allow S to explore movement as S move about the room.
8. T will point out different movements for S to get ideas

Assessment: S move about the room moving to the correct rhythm of Engine Engine #9 while speaking
the poem.

Transition: Have S find a partner and move to a new space in the room.

Activity #3: Clap/ pat with a partner

1. S will find a partner and move to a new space in the room.

2. T will demonstrate with a partner how to clap/pat with their partner.
3. T will have S do it all together as a class
 4. T will allow S to explore the pat/claps with their partners and encourage S to explore other
claps/pats.
5. T will have some partners demonstrate

Assessment: Can S successfully clap the rhythm of Engine Engine #9 in a 4/4 meter and differentiate
between the quarter and eighth note rhythms.