Have the students sing and follow along with this video...
With the extra time you can do this freeze dance activity...
Lesson TWO
Welcome to music class!
Ask the children to stand up in their space. All actions are to be done in one spot. Children may not run/move around the room:
Read this to the children:
Let's take a look at the Carnival of the Animals...a suite of songs by a composer named Camille Saint Saens.
A "suite" in music is a collection of songs that go together. You can think of it like all the different episodes of the television show Bluey. There are a lot of different stories that Bluey tells and even though they are all different they all have the same characters and ideas running through them. In a musical suite the songs are all different but they all have to do with the same theme or idea. In the Carnival of the Animals the theme is seeing different types of animals at a zoo. The characters are the animals of the zoo.
Let's talk about it...
Ask the children to turn and talk. Give the students 2 minutes to talk (use the timer below) and then ask them to report out about what they talked about:
Have you ever been to the zoo? If so what did you see there?
It's time to move...
Ask the children to stand up in their space. All actions are to be done in one spot. Children may not run/move around the room:
Here is an overview of Carnival of the Animals
Let's do an elephant dance!
Ask the children to stand up in their space. All actions are to be done in one spot. Children may not run/move around the room:
This is what the elephant sounds like in the Carnival of the Animals...
Remind the students that when they listen they use their ears to hear the music and their eyes to see what is on the screen but their mouths are quiet and their bodies are still.
Here is a silly elephant video...
Lesson THREE
Welcome to music class...
Ask the children to stand up in their space. All actions are to be done in one spot. Children may not run/move around the room:
Let's listen to the Elephant again...
Remind the students that when they listen they use their ears to hear the music and their eyes to see what is on the screen but their mouths are quiet and their bodies are still.
Ask the students to listen again, but this time (seated) they should move their bodies to the music. How does the music make you want to move.
Watch the video below...
Explain the following:
We are going to be looking at what is called a listening map. A listening map shows you pictures of what the music sounds like. In this video you will see the elephants swaying back and forth and moving in a spiral on a ball. Watch the video. The first time you can look to see how the elephants are moving. The second time stay seated and try to match your movement to what you see on the map.
Did the map show the same kind of movements that you did?
Let's move...
Let the students know that they will be able to move around the room very carefully. They will be moving like an elephant and swaying their "trunks" (use their arms like an elephant's trunk) carefully. Please remind the students that they need to be respectful of each others bubble space. Before you begin as the students:
How does an elephant move? Fast or slow?
When we move around the room what do we need to do to make sure that we are "Acting Safely" so that no one gets hurt?
Hens and Roosters
Read to the children:
Another song In the Carnival of the Animals is called Hens and Roosters. Hens are girl chickens and Roosters are boy chickens.
Ask the students:
Do you think that hens and roosters move fast or slow? Why?
Do you think that this piece of music will have long, low, slow sounds or fast, quick, pointy sounds? Why?
Play the song for the students reminding them that when they listen they use their ears to hear the music and their eyes to see what is on the screen but their mouths are quiet and their bodies are still.
Presto and Largo
Explain to the students:
Instead of saying that music is fast and slow we use the musical terms Presto and Largo. Presto means fast and Largo means slow.
Presto
Ask the students: How many times do you think that you can say the word PRESTO in 30 seconds?
Use the timer below to have the children say the word Presto as fast as they can. Please remind them that they should NOT yell or scream and must try to keep their voices at a lower level, understanding that they may get excited and a little loud.
Largo
Using the same timer ask the children: How many times do you think you can say the word LARGO in 30 seconds? How slowly can you say the word?
Please remind them that they should NOT yell or scream and must try to keep their voices at a lower level, understanding that they may get excited and a little loud.
Watch, then do...
Ask the children to watch the video below about Presto and Largo. First graders have seen this video before. Ask them to sit and watch the first time anyway.
After watching the video ask the children to stand up in their space. All actions are to be done in one spot. Children may not run/move around the room. Children should move like the turtle and the rabbit. Remind students that they are NOT rabbits and they need to stay on two feet and not crawl on the ground like the rabbit in the video.
Story time!
Sit and listen quietly to a story about an elephant and a chicken...It's quite silly!