Basic Information

Apprentice Teacher: Kierstyn U’Ren

Grade Level: 4th grade

Teaching Date: February 21, 2019

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills for this Lesson

Minor keys. How to sing la minor.

Understand basic notes and basic rhythms up to sixteenth notes.

Understand cut time

Content and Achievement Standards

 Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
o Sing independently, on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timbre, diction, and
posture, and maintain a steady tempo
 Reading and notating music.
o Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in 24, 34, and 44
meter signatures
 Anchor Standard 7: Performing a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others,
from rote memory and written notation
 Anchor Standard 9: Creating a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations,
and accompaniments

Behavioral Objectives
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Sing from memory

 Sing in rounds, back row begins, front row begins at measure 4
 Identify what a round is

Materials
 Song/piano
 White board and marker
 Lesson plan
 Blank sheet of papers

Procedures
Set

 Class can you keep a beat and echo translate please?

o Go over half note rhythms, quarter note, and eight notes (ta-, ta, ta di)
  Alright class today we are going to be learning about rounds which is when a group is singing
the same song in unison but they start at different times
 Now we are going to review a minor scale because our song that we will be singing is in a minor
key.
o Sing an E4 minor scale (E is la)
 Sing Bim Bom
o What were some of the words you hear in the song that repeat themselves?
 Rote Instruction of Song
o Begin by teaching the rhythm and pitches follow after
o Teach measures 1-2
o Teach measures 3-4
 Combine these together from memory
o Teach measures 5-6
o Teach measures 7-8
 Combine these from memory
o Teach measures 9-10
o Teach measures 11-12
 Begin to chunk together until they can independently sing the song

 Concept Integration / Closure

Can someone tell me what a round is?

If we were to make this song in a round where would you split the song student A? (they conduct)

(Have one group start and the other group begin to sing at m4)

End