Grade One Unit Plan

Remembrance, Peace, Love, and Friendship November 2016 7 classes

Generative Topic: As the students in grade one begin to learn the specific
elements of music such as rhythm and notes, it becomes crucial to have and
understanding of why - why we make music. So whereas the technical aspects
of this unit build on what has been taught to generate a complete knowledge of
music. The real purpose of this unit is to help students understand why we
make music. Building on the themes of the season such as remembrance and
peace for Remembrance day in early November. Then after exploring some of
the more somber themes in music, we will build through the themes of love and
friendship as we move towards the joy of the winter celebrations.
Unit Title: Remembrance, Peace, Love and Friendship
Big Idea: Why we make music and organizing rhythm and notes.
Essential Questions:

1. Why do we make music and how can it express our feelings?

2. How can we begin to use beat to organize rhythm into smaller chunks?
3. How can we organize and notate melodies with more than two notes?
Concepts Taught:
Curricular Outcomes:
R5 Long sounds, short sounds, and silences may be
Tah rest
grouped to form rhythm patterns, tah rest
Introduce 2/4 meter
M3 a sequence of sounds may move from low to
Introduce form
high, high to low, or stay the same
High to low/low to high
F1 Music can be organized into sections alike or
Introduce la (m-s-l)
different

Activities:
- Poppy Poppy
- Ive Got Peace Like a River
- Sing for Peace
- Form Game
- Weekend Fun
- Starlight
- Muffin Man
- Teddy Bear

E3 Music may express our feelings

L2 Identify and compare sounds: high-low
M5 Improvise movement for high-low
S4 Respond to hand signals for so-mi-la
RW 2 - Recognize the following rhythm patterns on
large charts, and follow from left to right (ta, ti-tirest)
RW3 Echo clap and chant written rhythm patterns
RW4 Draw stick rhythm patterns on paper
RW6 Respond to hand signals and staff notation of
so-mi-la
C2 use instruments to create sounds of high-low

Materials Needed:

Jingle Bells

Lesson Summary
Remembrance, Peace, Love, and Friendship November 2016 7 classes

Less
on
1

By the end of the

lesson, students
will be able to
Use nonlocomotor
movements to
demonstrate beat
Use words to
demonstrate rhythm

Use body notation to

notate ta and ti-ti
Use body actions to
demonstrate the
meaning of a song.

Use the contrast

between moving
and freezing to
demonstrate form
Use expressive
elements of music
to show meaning of
the music.

Assessment/
Evaluation

Activities

Observation
Checklist
- Keeping a
steady beat

Follow the Leader

(2min)
Poppy Poppy (10
min)
Ive got Peace like a
River (5 min)
Sing for Peace (8
min)
(Singing Game) (5
min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Poppy Poppy (12
min)
- Body
notation
game
Sing for Peace (10
min)
- High to
low/low to
high
Ive got Peace like a
River (6 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Sing for Peace (10
min)
Poppy Poppy (10
min)
Form Game (4 min)
- Moving to
the form of a
piece
(Singing Game) (4

Observation
Checklist
- Ta and ti-ti
- Understandi
ng highlow/lowhigh

Observation
Checklist
- Understandi
ng words
and
expression
in music

Resources

Music Play
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Music Play
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Music Play 23

Music Play
23

Use a structured
tune to improvise on
SM
Explain that when
there is not a ta
there is a rest

Observation
Checklist
- Improvising
on SM

Use the contrast

between moving
and freezing to
demonstrate form
Use body notation to
notate ta/ti-ti

Observation
Checklist
- Understandi
ng of Form

Label the absence of

a ta as a rest
Use hand signs and
the had staff while
singing the first
phrase of Teddy
Bear
Identify ta and ti-ti
in a familiar piece
Label ta, ti-ti, and ta
rest in Poppy
Poppy

Observation
Checklist
- comfort
with
labelling ta
rest
Observation
Checklist
- Labelling ta
rest
- Labelling
ta/ti-ti

min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Weekend Fun (8
min)
Starlight (5 min)
Muffin Man (12 min)
Form Game (3 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Starlight (12 min)
- Body
notation
(ta/ti-ti)
- 2/4 meter
Teddy Bear (10 min)
(SML)
Form Game (5 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
The Muffin Man
(Labelling rest) (8
min)
Teddy Bear (10 min)
Jingle Bells (10 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Starlight (10 min)
- assess ta/titi, 2/4 meter
Popsicle Stick Game
- Return to Poppy
Poppy to label rests
(15 min)
Form Game (3 min)

Game Plan
38
Music Play
24
Game Plan 17

Music Play
24

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Game Plan
17
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Music Play
24

Game Plan
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