Singing
Music Lesson Plan
Title: Little Sally Walker                            Grade Level: 2nd grade
Source: Dr. McConkey
Materials needed:
Little Sally Walker Song Lyrics
Procedure: Anticipatory Set, Instructional Input, Modeling, Checking for Understanding,
Practice, Closure
A.S: “Who likes to go on walks? Where do you go on walks?”
    1)   Have kids get into a circle, “We are going to pretend our circle is a street”
    2)   “Let's talk about a girl named Sally Walker” Pretend you (teacher) is Sally Walker
    3)   “I'm going to sing a song, listen to me”
    4)   “Lets try and sing it, Repeat after me” Teach the songdo each phrase ONE phrase at a
         time first. Then sing two phrases together and add on. Teacher sing first and have
         students repeat back.
    5)   Walk around the circle and sing (have students sing with you) “Little Sally Walker down
         the street..” (demonstrate the movement being added)
    6)   “She didn’t know what to do so she stopped in front of me” Stop in front of student you
         were in front of and dance
    7)   Dancing (encourage students to be creative and have fun with there dances) “She said hey
         girl do your thing, do your thing, do your thing, do your thing and SWITCH” Switch
         spots with that person
    8)   Repeat until all students got a turn
Closure: “What did Sally do when she didn't know what to do?” “Do you think she’s having
fun?”
Educational Objective:  By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . . how to listen
and identify specific parts of a song, while singing and be able to demonstrate their
understanding with movements.
 Social/        Cognitive        Physical              Musical                Non-Music
Emotional                                                                     al Subjects
Working in a Role Playing       Walking       National          “Core”        Content
group setting                   around in     Standards         Music         Standards
                                              1. Singing      Standards
              Identifying the   circle
                                              2. Play                         MU:Pr4.3.Ka
Participation what part of                    Instruments       Creating      With
              song you will     Active        3. Improvising   Imagine       guidance,
Having fun    be acting too     Involvement   4. Composing      Plan and      demonstrate
                                              5. Reading &      Make          awareness of
                                              Notating          Evaluate &    expressive
                                Dancing                         Refine
                                              6. Listening                   qualities
              Demonstrating                                     Present       (such as voice
                                              7. Evaluating
              movements for                   8. Integration                  quality,
                                                                Performing
              each area                       (outside arts)                  dynamics,
                                                                Select        and tempo)
              accurately and                  9.
                                                                Analyze
                                              History/Culture                 that support
              on time                                           Interpret
                                                                              the creators’
                                                                Rehearse,
                                                                              expressive
                                                                Evaluate, &
                                                                              intent.
                                                                Refine
                                                                Present
                                                                              MU:Re7.2.Ka
                                                                Responding    With
                                                                Select        guidance,
                                                                Analyze       demonstrate
                                                                Interpret     how a specific
                                                                Evaluate      music concept
                                                                Connecting    (such as beat
                                                                Connect #10   or melodic
                                                                Connect #11   direction) is
                                                                              used in music.