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Old Macdonald Had A Woodshop

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching kindergarten students about musical instruments using the story "Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop." Students will develop musical skills and self-expression. They will learn that different instruments make different sounds and follow the story told through music. The lesson calls for students to play simple percussion instruments like wood blocks and shakers at designated parts of the story to improve listening skills and demonstrate timing.

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Old Macdonald Had A Woodshop

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching kindergarten students about musical instruments using the story "Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop." Students will develop musical skills and self-expression. They will learn that different instruments make different sounds and follow the story told through music. The lesson calls for students to play simple percussion instruments like wood blocks and shakers at designated parts of the story to improve listening skills and demonstrate timing.

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Kinder & DIV 1 Music Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop

GLEs: Students will develop:


 enjoyment of music
 insights into music through meaningful musical activities
 self-expression and creativity
SLEs: EXPRESSION
The student will understand that:
4. Musical instruments have different tonal qualities

LISTENING
The student will be able to:
8. Follow a story told by music
Learning Students will:
Objectives  Improve (B) listening skills (P) through playing activity (M).
 Demonstrate (B) musical timing (P) by playing their instrument at the correct time (M).

Stage 3: Learning Experience


Resources to Bring:  Old Macdonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman
 Instruments: Cabasa, ratchet, wood blocks, rattle, guiro, xylophone,
sandpaper blocks
Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessments:
Introduction: Old MacDonald
 Read the story through without any instruments, discussing different
aspects of the story.
 Ask students which words in the story they think could be accompanied
by an instrument.
 Go through those specific words and ask students which instruments
that were brought to the class that they think we could use for those
words.
 Assign different instruments to different words in the story.
Body: Play Instruments Because we will be in a
 Divide the instruments that were discussed amongst the students- there classroom, only bring
will not be an instrument for each student, so the other students will be about 7 instruments
assigned to a part and will clap or mimic the part when it comes. that will be shared and
Practice a signal for when the students in each group are to play. handed out to good
 Read the story through again with the instrumentation. listeners.
 Get students to pass their instrument to someone who hasn’t played an
instrument yet, and go through the book again.

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