Whole Note Pizza

Lesson By: Abbey Mastera

Grade: 1st grade
Duration: 5 minutes

Student Learner Objectives:

Students will learn about whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes and their values
Students will learn and sing a song called Pizza Hut Song
Students will learn a math lesson, as well as a music lesson
Students will learn fractions and
Students will recognize one whole

Materials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-V953wYlc (Pizza Hut Song)
Pizza Hut lyrics
Construction paper
Scissors to cut pizza
Overhead

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Procedure:
Show motions for each fast food restaurant
Go through lyrics with students
Play the song and sing along with students
Show the whole pizza on the overhead
Equal to one whole note
Ask students if you take half of the pizza away, what is left
of pizza is left, equals one half note
Take away another half of the pizza (gives you )
Tell students that this is equal to a quarter note

Song Lyrics:
A Pizza Hut (make a pizza with arms)
A Pizza Hut

Kentucky Fried Chicken (flap your arms like you're doing the chicken dance)
And a Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut,
Kentucky Fried Chicken
And a Pizza Hut
McDonalds, McDonalds (swing arms in the air)
Kentucky Fried Chicken
And a Pizza Hut
Mc Donald's, Mc Donald's,
Kentucky Fried Chicken
And a Pizza Hut
Procedure for Teaching the Song:
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Teach the motions

Pizza: outstretched arms making a circle
KFC: flap wings like a chicken
McDonalds: wave arms above head
Teach lyrics
Play song and have students sing along
Common Core Standards:
Music:
A.4.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation
A.8.1 Sing accurately and with good breath control throughout their singing ranges, alone and in
small and large ensembles
E.4.1 Read whole, half, and quarter notes
Dance:
A.4.2 Define and maintain personal space and move safely in groups throughout the general
space
A.4.7 Create shapes through movement and move at low, medium, and high levels

A.4.9 Demonstrate rhythmic awareness by moving to a musical beat and responding to changes
in tempo
Math:
Students develop an understanding of fractions, beginning with unit fractions