Week 9 (For a printable PDF of this lesson, go here.)
Solfa: d-r-m-f-s
Welcome: Delicious Music Theme Song
D-R-M Review:
1. review signs
2. someone write song
3. learn words to hot cross buns
4. sing solfa hot cross buns
Teach F-S:
1. teach signs
2. someone write song
3. learn words to banana split
4. sing solfa banana split
Fun Song: We Are the Explorers (Willy the worm)
Goodbye: Adios Amigos
Week 8 (For a printable PDF, go here.)
Notes/Solfa
Welcome: Delicious Music theme song
Introduction: We have learned so much in music. We’ve learned about: vibrations, how you can make music with your body and that makes you special. We’ve talked about how music can make you feel all kinds of emotions like happy, sad or scared.
Today we are going to learn how we make music using notes.
1. Show piano sheet music that is simple and music that is complex. Point out notes.
2. In Delicious Music we are not going to learn note names but learn about something called Solfa.
Video: Show Sound of Music clip
Solfa: Learn first three solfa pitches and signs (d, r, m). Put notes together you can make a song.
Solfa Game: Magnet d, r, m circles on board put into different order and sign and sing made up song.
Sing: We are the Explorers
Goodbye: Adios Amigos
Week 7 (For a printable PDF of this lesson, go here.)
Halloween Fun
Welcome: Delicious Music Theme Song
Activity: Draw an object
1. I’m a Mean old Witch with a Hat (witch) – ghost measure
2. Those Bones (skeleton)
“These bones, these bones, these dancing bones
These bones, these bones, these dancing bones
These bones, these bones, these dancing bones
We’re doing the skeleton dance.”
3. 5 Creepy Spiders (spider) – tune: 3 blind mice -Echo game
5 creepy spiders. Five creepy spiders
See how they crawl. See how they crawl
Crawl crawl craw. Crawl crawl crawl
Five creepy spiders. Five creepy spiders
4. Knock Knock, Trick of Treat (ghost)
Knock Knock, trick or treat. Who are you?
I’m a ghost. I’m a ghost.
Knock Knock, trick or treat. Who are you?
I’m a scary ghost. Boo!
5. Go Away! Tune: (monster) she’ll be coming around the mountain – animal sounds
Go away scary monster, go away.
Go away! (repeat)
Go away spooky witch, go away
Go away! (repeat)
6. Can You Make a Happy Face? (pumpkin) Tune: London Bridges – what jack o’ lantern did you carve?
Can you make a happy face? Happy face, happy face?
Can you make a happy face? Jack o’ lantern
Can you make an angry face….
Can you make a scared face….
Can you make a sad face….
Week 8
Notes and pitch
Introduce Solfa and sing garden style music
Week 5 (For printable PDF, go here.)
You are Unique
Welcome: Time for Some Delicious Music
Getting to Know You: Alice, Conner, Canyon, Macey
Activity: Marvin the Monkey
Everything about you is unique! The way you look, your voice and everything about you makes you unique and special. Marvin the Monkey has things posted all over him that make him unique.
1. Eyes – Two little Eyes
Two little eyes that blink, blink, blink
Two little eyes that see;
Head and shoulders, knees and toes;
And many more things make me
Tra la la la la la
Two little eyes that see,
Two little eyes that blink, blink, blink,
And many more things make me.
2. Mouth – Vibrations are unique to you
ipad experiment
Blindfold teacher to see if she can pick out who’s speaking
Sing: The Explorers
3. Knees – Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
4. Daniel tiger – You are Special
You are my friend you are special
You’re one of a kind.
You’re special.
Discussion: How do you take care of your unique body?
Goodbye: Adios Amigos
Week 4 (Printable PDF here)
Fall Fun: Scarecrow poster
Welcome: Delicious music theme song
Activity: Pick a part of the poster and build a scarecrow. Each piece has a song and occasionally an activity to go with it
1. The Explorers
2. Bells: Adios Amigos (one person plays it on the bells)
3. In the leafy tree tops (use legato / staccato signs)
4. It’s Autumn time (use animal sound signs)
5. Hinges (from children’s primary songbook)
6. Leaves are falling all around (use eddie spaghetti poster)
Goodbye Song: Sing Adios Amigos
Week 3 (For printable PDF, go here.)
Vibrations and Waves
Welcome: Delicious music theme song
Getting to know you: Pick four more children to share something about themselves and play a song on the bells.
Activity: Learn about what makes sound. Sound is vibrations that go to my ear and sends a message to my brain making sounds that I can hear.
Demonstrations: (classrooms may be stocked with the first two items)
1. Vibrations: pluck an elastic around a bread pan to show vibrations
2. Vibrations create airwaves: hit one pan next to another pan that has cupcake sprinkles on top and watch the sprinkles move.
3. Feel vibrations: comb and wax paper activity
a. give everyone a plastic comb (I found packs at the dollar store)
b. cover the comb with a small square piece of wax paper
c. blow into the wax paper to feel the vibrations
d. blow to the tune of “adios amigos” together
Video: Evelyn Glennie – deaf percussionist who plays by feeling the vibrations through her fingers and body (7:25 minutes found on freedeliciousmusic.org)
Song: The Explorers
Goodbye Song: Sing Adios Amigos
Week 2 (For a printable PDF of this lesson, go here.)
The Story of Music
Welcome: Sing theme song and teach next line.
Getting to know you: Pick four more children to share something about themselves and play a song on the bells.
Activity: Mr. Potato Head activity
1. We are going to learn about music today by using our bodies.
2. Mr. Musical Max is missing body parts. Pick a part and tell us how you would use that body part to make music.
a. Hands: How would you make music with your hands? Clapping
1. make rainstorm using hands (small pitter – patter to loud rain). Use signs for kids to show loud and softs of rain.
a. principle – loud and soft in music.
b. Mouth: How do you make music with your mouth? Singing
1. teach first two lines of school song.
a. principle – all bodies are different so everyone has a unique sound.
c. Feet: How can you make music with your feet? Stomping
1. Sing: “if you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet”
2. Show clogging shoes and demonstrate sounds made by feet.
a. principle – music makes us feel happy and is made up of rhythm and beats.
Coloring books: Books to take home and color that talks about some things we learned about today. Color and read it with family.
Goodbye Song: Sing Adios Amigos