Grade 1/Music
Revised May 2013
Unit 1: Beginning Year Routine
Topic
Week
1
Getting
Acquainted with
music room and
with each other
Week
2
Saying Hello in
different
languages
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1
9.1, 9.2
Week
3
High and
Low/Up and
down
movement of
voice
Week
4
Movements can
be loud and
soft/instruments
can be loud and
soft
9.1, 9.3
Week
5
Loud and soft
movements
9.1,9.2,9.3
9.1
Details
Seating Chart
Body Movement March
Review of high and low voice
Hey There Friend/ partner song/listen, echo sing/discuss
the 2 parts (singing and body percussion)/movement with
partner
Take a ride on a plane to various countries and echo saying
“hello”
Review of high and low voice by chanting a rhyme
Review of “Hey There Friend”
Follow song in Big Book of melody moving up and back
down
Listen to song and do movement
Echo sing
Sing do movement
Join into the Game song and replace body percussion with
rhythm instruments
Ha Ha This away song and movement/discuss which
movements are loud and which are soft/move to song
Let’s Go Driving/talk about sounds that cars make and
which are loud and soft/listen to song and add in motions
for each sound/replace the motions with instruments
Mi Cuerpo/ learn pronunciation of words/add in motions
and sounds/discuss which are loud and which are
soft/echo sing/sing with motions
Listen: March by Georges Bizet/follow listening
Resources
Music & Movement CD
Owl and dog puppet
We Love to Move bk. & CD
Share the Music bk.
We Love to Move Bk. And
CD
Spotlight 1st gr. Bk. & CD
Action Songs bk. 1
Rhythm instruments
We Love to Move Book and
CD
Spotlight 1st gr. Bk. And CD
Rhythm instruments
Spotlight 1st gr. Bk. And CD
Grade 1/Music
map/follow the loud and soft/add in movements to show
loud and soft
Week
6
Exploring
Sounds
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Identify various rhythm instruments and describe the
sounds
Read story The King Who Heard Music/what sounds did
King hear/add sounds to the story
The Old Gray Cat/listen and move hands to show
movement of cat and mouse/what parts would be loud
and soft/use music symbols for forte and piano/act out
song
Haydn: Surprise Symphony/read story/listen and act out
Music Effect Bk. 2
Share the Music Bk. 1 and
CD
Share the Music grade 3 CD
Grade 1/Music
Unit 2: Halloween
Topic
Halloween and
Fall/Compare &
Contrast
Week
(singing vs
1
talking, happy
vs sad,
matching pitch
Week Halloween and
2
Fall/sequencing
Week Halloween
3
Sequencing
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1, 9.3
9.1
9.1, 9.3
Details
Resources
Read poem Five Little Pumpkins/listen to the song/compare the
difference/I sing song but they sing what each pumpkin
says/choose 5 children to sing the five pumpkin parts
Pumpkin Stew/talk about what stew is/throw pumpkin to child
and they name something in stew
Something Funny Outside/listen/echo sing/they do
sh’s/compare this song to Five Little Pumpkins (Happy and
sad)/add shakers for the sh’s
Spotlight 1 and CD
Share the Music 1 and CD
Pumpkin bean bag
shakers
Town Hall Halloween Ball/what is a ball/listen/put pictures on
smart board in order/sing with motions/divide class into groups
and them the pictures for song and they put them in order
The Witch Rides/name Halloween characters/listen/what
characters does this song use/put them in order/move with the
song
Music and You 1 book and
burned CD
Music and You 2 book and
burned CD
Skin and Bones/Determine the part that keeps repeating and
stand and circle arms on it/sequence the song in order through
moving pictures on the smart board/echo sing
Review Witch Rides/review the 4 Halloween creatures/move to
song
Jack-o-lantern/difference between a pumpkin and a jack-olantern/list the steps in making a jack-o-lantern/listen for
repeated words/use rhythm instruments to play on repeated
words
Share the Music bk.1 & CD
Burned CD for Witch Rides
Burned CD for Jack-o-lantern
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Week
4
Halloween/
loud and soft
sounds
Rhyming
Week
5
Halloween &
Veteran’s Day
Week
6
Halloween
& pitch
matching
9.1, 9.2,
9.3
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
9.1
Willoughby, Wallaby/rhyming song/every child’s name gets put
into the song
Something Funny Outside/echo sing/they do the sh’s/add
shakers for the sh’s (rhythm)
Sing after Me/echo sing/is an echo usually louder or softer
My Country Tis of Thee/listen/echo sing
Funeral March of a Marionette/what is a marionette/listen and
look at pictures in big book/act out by pretending to put on a
costume and then march/march marionette around to go with
the music
Monster Mash
Review of any Halloween songs, My Country Tis of Thee
Pumpkin, Ghost and Bat pitch matching game
Share the Music K. bk.
Share the Music Bk. 1 and CD
Spotlight Bk. 1 and CD
Spotlight Bk.1 & CD
Monster Mash CD
Marionette
Spotlight Big Bk. 1
Pumpkin, ghost, and bat
charms
Grade 1/Music
Unit 3: Fall & Thanksgiving
Topic
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Week
1
Fall
9.1, 9.2, 9.3,
9.4
Autumn Leaves/ sound of leaves falling/use of scarves
Intry Mintry/skipping song
Over the River/galloping song
2
Fall and
Thanksgiving
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
America/review for Veteran’s Day
Five Fat Turkeys/rests
Pumpkin Song
Thank You/use sign language
3
Fall and
Thanksgiving
4
Fall &
Thanksgiving
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
9.1
Details
The Turkey Ran Away/speaking vs singing/
Shoo Turkey/movement
Echo game with fall icons
Review of all Fall songs
Resources
Share the Music K bk. And CD
Burnt CD
Share the Music 2nd gr. Bk.
And CD
Share the Music Gr. 1 bk.
And CD
Share the Music K. bk. & CD
Share the Music k bk. & CD
Share the Music 1 bk. & CD
Share the Music 1 &K. bk. &
CD
Fall icons
Grade 1/Music
Unit 4: Winter & Christmas
Topic
Eligible
Content/
Standards
Details
1
Winter &
Christmas
9.1, 9.2, 9.3,
9.4
Christmas Program songs
Sleigh Ride/Leroy Anderson/listen/movement/listen without
words & with words
Santa’s Helpers/use of various rhythm instruments
2
Winter &
Christmas
9.1,
Continuation of previous week with various Christmas songs
3
Winter &
Christmas
9.1, 9.2, 9.3,
9.4
Resources
Music Effect bk. 2
Christmas Magic CD
Share the Music 1 bk. & CD
Rhythm instruments
Same as previous week
Nutcracker DVD
Nutcracker DVD/story line/ballet/Tchiakovsky
Grade 1/Music
Unit 5: Andante & Allegro
Topic
1
2
Andante &
Allegro
Andante and
Allegro through
singing,
movement and
listening
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
9.1, 9.3
Details
Show categories of fast and slow on board
Let’s Play in the Snow/discuss what you wear in snow/listen and
determine how to move/skip to the music/discuss if this is a fast
or slow movement and place the word skip under appropriate
category
Hungarian Dance/show picture of Brahms/talk about what a
composer does/listen/discuss how the music changes from slow
to fast/stand and jog in place for fast and sit for slow/show signs
for andante and allegro and hold up in appropriate
places/choose students to hold up signs in appropriate
place/place andante and allegro signs under appropriate
categories/use ribbons to demonstrate the fast and slow
Old Gray Cat/listen and do hand movements/discuss which part
goes fast/act out song
I Am Slowly Going Crazy/play slow version then fast version and
discuss what is different about the 2 versions/move around
circle with the beat
Fisherboats at Dusk/listen/discuss what the music makes them
feel – what type of music and what is happening during
it/discuss how the tempo changes/use stretchy band to row to
the beat
Touch/do what song says/andante song
Mack Chicken Dance Medley/changes in tempo
Resources
Share the Music bk 1 & CD
Fast and slow signs
Andante and Allegro signs
ribbons
Spotlight 1 bk. & CD
Share the Music bk. 1 & CD
Music & Movement CD
Stretchy band
Grade 1/Music
Unit 6: Friendship
Topic
Friendship/Valen
tine’s Day
1
2
Friendship
3
George
Washington/ostin
ato/matching
pitch
Eligible
Content/
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
9.1
9.1, 9.2
Details
Topic
Viva Valentine/listen/spells out Valentine/echo speak/echo
sing/add maracas & drums to the beat
I Made a Valentine/listen/compare this song to Viva Valentine
(this is a quiet, slow song and Viva is lively)/sing with motions
Spotlight 1 bk. & CD
Share the Music 1 bk. & CD
Maracas and drums
Mail Myself to You/echo sing refrain/do motions with
refrain/listen to entire song only singing refrain/clap eighth and
quarter ostinato for paper, glue/split class and one group sings
the refrain while the other group says the ostinato/transfer
saying ostinato to rhythm instrument
Be My Friend/listen/echo sing/teach speaking part with
clapping/partner movement
Who Chopped the Cherry Tree Down/read legend of George
Washington/listen /echo sing “I did”/echo sing entire song/play
game with matching pitching for “I did”/play ostinato on
xylophone by keeping a steady beat
Share the Music 1 bk. & CD
Rhythm instrument of choice
Spotlight 2 bk. & CD
xylophone
Grade 1/Music
Unit 7: Jungle Beat
Topic
Jungle
Beat/making
shakers
1
2
3
4
Animals in the
Jungle/solo
singing
Jungle
Beat/climate
Jungle Beat
completion
Eligible
Content/
Standards
9.1, 9.2,
9.1, 9.2
9.1, 9.2, 9.3
9.1, 9.3
Details
Talk about the music they entered room to/has anyone been to the
rainforest at Cleveland/what is a rainforest like/
Jungle Beat Chant/echo /is this singing or talking
Make shakers/pass out paper plates/they color a jungle animal on
plate and fill with 8 macaronis then I staple it shut/repeat Jungle
Beat Chant using shakers
Now My Shaker’s Up/listen and follow directions in song for shakers
Jungle Beat/listen/use rhythm instruments as appropriate for song
(sticks, drums, triangles)
Use shakers to enter room to Jungle Beat Chant
Walking Through the Jungle/powerpoint of jungle animals/they solo
sing the animal
Silly Sam/read story/every time you hear a word that begins with
“s” shake shaker once/listen to song/echo sing/teach movement
OR
The Butterfly/listen/speech piece/use scarves to act out song
Play you tube video of the rain forest as students enter
Lemon Drops and Gum Drops/echo sing/sing with motions
Sixty Inches of Rain/move to circle with drip-drop and pitter-patter
pattern/talk about instruments heard on recording/use xylophones
to keep beat, add rain sticks and one other rhythm instrument/
Make a rainstorm
Speckled Frog/echo sing/use poster and pass out frog puppets
One Little Elephant/listen/everyone gets called to balance around
the circle while singing
Giraffes Can’t Dance Book/read and discuss the meaning
Butterfly/listen and use scarves to act out story/talk about how A
Resources
Jungle Beat bk. & CD
Paper plates
Crayons, stapler, macaroni
Rhythm sticks, drums, triangles
Jungle Beat bk. & CD
Scarves
Powerpoint
shakers
Jungle Beat bk. & CD
Frog puppets
Frog poster
Xylophones
Rhythm instruments
Jungle Beat bk. & CD
Giraffes Can’t Dance Book
scarves
Grade 1/Music
butterfly comes about
Party in the Jungle/listen and act out the animals
Unit 8: Spring:Reading Rhythms
1
Spring/acting/
String
instruments
Spring/quarter
rest/matching
pitch
2
3
4
Spring
Identifying
quarter & eight
notes
Spring
Rhythm
Prokofiev
9.1, 9.2,
9.1,
9.1
9.1, 9.2
Weave Me the Sunshine/read story singing the song parts/act
out/use rhythm instruments to represent the various singing parts
>In the Park/movement song
>Spring/Vivaldi/show picture of composer/show pictures of string
instruments
>Butterfly Song/use scarves
>Pitch matching game using bunny, chick & egg trinkets
>Mister Rabbit/talk about the spaces in music where there is no
singing (quarter rests)/use shaker to shake on the rests
>Old Mister Rabbit/listen and echo sing/teach game
>Bunny Hop/teach dance by use of poster
>Farmer in the Dell/sequence of characters/play singing game
>Move to walk and jogging music/which movement is
faster/show what a walk (quarter note) looks like and show
jogging notes (eighth)
>Associate animal pictures with rhythms/play on rhythm sticks
>But the Critter Got Away/listen/identify pictures and clap them
and figure out how many sounds to the beat do the words
get/way words move is called rhythm/put other pictures on
board of other foods and say them in rhythm
>Jump, Jim Joe/movement song
>Gavotte/Prokofiev
Share the Music gr. 1 bk. & CD
Rhythm instruments
Picture of Vivaldi
Pictures of string instruments
scarves
Bunny, chick, and egg trinkets
Share the Music Gr. 1 bk. & CD
Film shakers
Flash cards for rest
We Love to Move bk. & CD
Share the Music K bk. & CD
Bunny Hop poster
Share the Music K bk. & CD
Share the Music gr. 1 bk. & CD
Animal pictures
Rhythm sticks
Spotlight gr. 1 bk. & CD
Spotlight Gr. 1 Big Bk.
Food pictures
Picture of Prokofiev
Grade 1/Music
5
6
7
8
Rhythm Reading
9.1
Rhythm Reading
using flash cards
Rhythm Reading
Completion of
rhythm
9.1
9.1
9.1
>The Rooster Has the Flu/teach song/use xylophones to keep a
steady beat/motions/assign partners to perform movement
>place pictures of animals on board/figure out how many
syllables are in each one/arrange animal pictures into four beat
measure/using boomwhackers have students play and say the
rhythm with picture names
>transition to notated rhythm/have children place walk and
jogging notes under each picture/play and say/take pictures
away and say and play the rhythms
>Gavotte by Prokofiev/look at big book pictures and say the
rhythm
>Flash flash cards of rhythms
>Bear Dance/jog to this
>Double This/look at picture in Big Book/read in rhythm and
clap/perform with partner/demonstrate body percussion/use
rhythm sticks to stick the rhythm
>Hungarian Dance/use ribbons to perform the slow and
fast/relate this to walk and jogging
>Gavotte/use rhythm sticks to tap beat and rhythm
Xylophones
Boomwhackers
Animal pictures
Note pictures
Spotlight bk. 1 & CD and Big
Book 1
>Doggie, Doggie/teach song/picture on board of dogs and
bones/change the pictures to notes/say and clap the
rhythms/doggie game
Rhythm flash cards
Share the Music bk. 1 & CD
Dogs and bones pictures
Rhythm flash cards
Share the Music K bk. & CD
Spotlight bk. 1 & CD and Big
Book 1
Rhythm sticks
Ribbons
Share the Music bk. 1 & CD
>Continue with Double This/read rhythm/write the rhythm on
Spotlight bk. 1 & CD and Big Bk. 1
board showing how to write notes without heads/review movement
Rhythm sticks
>one beat split into 2 words/using straws for notes they will listen
Rhythm flash cards
to a rhyme and make the rhythm with the straws
Grade 1/Music
Grade 1/Music
Unit 9: Carnival of the Animals
1-3
Carnival of the
Animals
9.1,9.2
>Introduce Carnival of the Animals with a power point of Camille
Saint-Saens and pictures from the book
>read article about animals and how they will sound like a musical
instrument and how some instruments sound like animals or
sound the way some animals move
>read poem “On Our Way”/reread and stop at each animal and
allow students to imitate the animal
>read book Carnival of the Animals by Tsutsui
>pass out pictures of animals and instruments and have students
match themselves with their partner picture and instrument/show
the big pictures of the instruments
>play each section of Carnival of the Animals and have students
act out the animals while listening to the music
>video “Carnival of the Animals”
Power point
Internet article
Carnival of the Animal book
Pictures of animals and
instruments
Large posters of instruments
CD of Carnival of the Animals
Carnival of the Animals video
Grade 1/Music