Title: Weevily Wheat
Grade Level: 1 to 3
by Anna Perea, APS Elementary Music Teacher
Lesson Objectives for Music:
Students will sing a song and chant numbers rhythmically.
Students will identify and describe new vocabulary.
Students will count numbers in sequences of 1, 3 and 5.
APS Music Standards:
Standard 1: Singing/Speaking alone or with others a varied repertoire of music.
Grade K-1, C: Sing/Speak from memory a varied repertoire of songs/poems.
Grade 2-3, C: Sing/Speak from memory a varied repertoire of songs while maintaining a steady beat;
Related Content Standards:
CCSS Mathematics
Grade 1-5 Mathematical Practices
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Grade 1, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Add and Subtract within 20
5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction.
Grade 2, Numbers and Operations in Base Ten, Understand place value
2. Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s and 100s.
Grade 3, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Multiply and divide within 100
7. Fluently multiply and divide within 100… know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers
Materials:
Recording of Weevily Wheat
Chalkboard, Whiteboard, Smart Board or Promethean Board
Vocabulary:
Weevily- filled with weevils
Weevil- any small insect that damages stored grain
Wheat- a cereal plant, the grain of which is ground to make flour
Barley- a hardy cereal plant used commonly in stockfeed and brewing
Flour-ground wheat used for cooking and baking.
Teaching Process:
Listen to song and practice counting with the recording.
Teacher recites words in a speaking voice, students echo.
Explain unfamiliar vocabulary words and consider showing pictures of each.
For younger grades, write numbers on board.
For older grades, write numbers on board, but begin erasing numbers with each repetition.
Sing and count with recording.
For older grades, once song is learned, sing without recording and change the numbers in between each verse
Try fours and tens (each number sequence goes for eight numbers.)
Consider placing students in groups and let them figure out advanced counting sequences, then present to the class.
Have class see if each sequence is correct.
Assessment and Rubrics:
(K-1) Can students chant correct numbers rhythmically between verses?
4 = All numbers correct without recording
3 = All numbers correct with recording
2 = Most numbers correct (3-5 incorrect) with recording
1 = Many (5+) mistakes counting numbers with recording
(2-3) Can students sing correct words and notes?
3 = All notes and words correct
2 = Some (3-5) incorrect words or notes
1 = Many (5+) incorrect words or notes
Modifications:
Older/Gifted: Let them figure out and present harder counting sequences.
Special Needs: Leave written numbers and words- have student helper point to the words and numbers as they are
being sung/chanted.
ESL: Spend more time going over words and vocabulary. Leave words on board longer, let students create moves to
go with the words.