Singing Lesson
Music Lesson Plan
Title: Frogs in the Meadow/Do you know the Muffin Man Grade Level: 1st or 2nd
Source: Vincent Bates
Materials needed: speaker, voice, kids!
Procedure: Hello class! Do you like singing? Have you ever memorized a song before? What
makes memorizing a song easy? Hard?
A.S: AS 3: Refine and complete artistic work
1. Ask the students if they like playing games
2. Inform the students that they will be copying after you to learn the song
a. Fill in name is in the middle, can’t get him out
Take a big stick and stir him all around.
3. Explain rules of the game
a. Everyone is going to stand in a circle around the person that is “stuck”
b. Everyone will sing the song, when the song says stir him all around the person in
the middle will close their eyes and spin around and whatever 2 people are being
pointed at have to hold hands
c. When the person in the middle breaks the hands they run around the circle and
whoever gets there last is now in the middle
4. Inform the students that they will be copying after you for each lyric
a. Do you know the Muffin man
The Muffin man, the Muffin man
Oh, do you know the Muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane?
Yes I know the Muffin man
The Muffin man, the Muffin man
Yes I know the Muffin man
The Muffin man, the Muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane.
5. Introduce the rules of the game
a. Pick one person to be in the middle
b. Everyone else will have a partner and link arms while the song is being sang they
will walk around in a circle on
c. When the song says yes everyone will change the direction they are walking and
continue the song
d. When the song is over the person in the middle will say 1, 2, 3, grab and everyone
will try to find a new partner, whoever doesn’t have a partner will now be the
person in the middle
Closure: Ask the students what skills they had to us to memorize the song
Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned how to memorize
and sing songs in tune.
Music Standards Utilized:
CREATING How do Anchor Standard: AS 1: Generate
musicians and conceptualize artistic ideas and
generate work
creative AS 3: Refine and complete artistic
ideas? work
AS 2: Organize and develop
Artistic ideas and work
PERFORMIN How do Anchor Standard: AS 4:
G performers Analyze, interpret and select
select artistic work for presentation
repertoire?
AS 6:
Convey meaning through the
presentation of artistic work
AS 7: Perceive and analyze
artistic work
RESPONDIN How do Anchor Standard: AS 7:
G individuals Perceive and analyze artistic
choose music work
to AS 8:
experience? Interpret intent and meaning
In artistic work
CONNECTIO How do Anchor Standard: Anchor
N musicians Standard: AS
make 10: Synthesize and relate
meaningful Knowledge and personal
connections experiences to make art
to creating,
performing,
and
responding?
Social Emotional Learning Students are making connections
(SEL standards) with themselves by stepping out
of their comfort zone and with
each other by being aware of
others and working together.
Cognitive Learning The students are using cognitive
learning by memorizing songs
and movements and when to take
apart these verses and
movements.
Physical Learning The students are using physical
learning because when they are
learning the motions of the
game/song while they are
moving around the room.
Non-Musical Subjects The students are learning to
connect singing cues with
movements.
Universal Design for Learning Vary the methods for response
(UDL) and navigation (Checkpoint
4.1)
Vary demands and resources to
optimize challenge (checkpoint
8.2)
Foster collaboration and
community (checkpoint 8.3)
MUSC 326 Singing Game Lesson Evaluation
Dr. McConkey
Name: Jacqueline Barco
1. Leadership (Body Language, Eye contact) (5 pts.) 5 pts.
2. Involve Students (Ask questions etc.) (10 pts.) 5 pts.
3. Don’t talk, Do! (5 pts.) 5 pts.
4. Use short / concise instructions (5 pts.) 4 pts.
5. Detailed lesson plans (step by step) (25 pts.) 4 pts.
6. Lesson shows effort was put into the preparation 5 pts.
and the teaching. (Props, visual etc.) (10 pts.) 10 pts
7. Opening/introductory Statement (5 pts.) 4 pts.
8. Teach Song by Rote (15 pts.) (see process on Bb) 13 pts.
9. Prepare and teach an activity (15 pts.) 15 pts.
10. Follow-up / Connection (write below) (5 pts.) 5 pts.
Total Points Earned: /100 pts.
Self-Evaluation: /25
Comments:
(Ask yourself, what went well and where could I improve?)
I felt like my last lesson went very smoothly, finally getting the hang of these
lessons after various tries. One thing I mentioned after class about improving
my professionalism during the lesson. Although I was teaching my peers it is
easy to forget that we are acting as if they were students.
