Danielle Kjar Priest Methods and Materials for Teaching Dinah I. Overall Goals a.

Singing alone and with others a varied repertoire of music: Students i. Sing independently, on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timbre, diction, and posture, and maintain a steady tempo. ii. Sing expressively, with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation. iii. Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles from diverse culture. iv. Sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of a conductor. v. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. (Students respond through purposeful movement) II. Behavioral Objectives a. The students will echo the teacher and perform vocal sirens with their voices b. The students will sing Dinah. c. The students will sing Dinah play circle game where one student recognizes the voice of another student. III. Materials a. Recorder or tuning fork b. Dinah from My Singing Bird, page 7. c. Microphone IV. Procedures a. Opening: i. The teacher will tell the students to watch carefully and be my mirror while stretching/loosening arms, shoulders, and neck. ii. The teacher will tell the students to be my echo and will perform 2-3 vocal sirens for the children to repeat (one at a time). OR iii. The teacher will ask the students to play a game. I have a game for you. Im looking to see who can listen closest and follow my directions but not get tricked. iv. Teacher gives a command coupled with an action, such as touch your nose and touches their own nose. The teacher starts to speed up the actions, eventually giving a command but performing a different action, such as touch your ear but the teacher touches their elbow. Teacher has everyone freeze and commends everyone who got it and were listening closely and then do one more round to give everyone else another chance if lots of students missed it. b. Main Body: i. Boys and girls, you are such good listeners that I want you to listen to my story and when I sing the song that is in it, will you use your awesome

listening skills and when you figure out what musical instrument it talks about, put your finger on your nose. ii. The teacher will tell a story about it being very cold outside and Dinah not wanting to leave the nice warm fireplace. So she curled up by the fireplace and pulled out her banjo to practice strumming on it. (Sing Dinah.) Then Mr. Bear knocks and wants to go sledding. No, Mr. Bear, Im too cold, I just want to stay home with my banjo! All alone again Sing Dinah. Mr. Rabbit build snowman no. Sing Dinah. Ms. Cow cup of hot chocolate? Yes, come on in! iii. The teacher will ask what musical instrument was in the story and song. iv. The teacher will ask the students to listen one more time and this time get out your own (pretend) banjo and strum along to the beat. v. Sing Dinah while students keep beat. vi. Now that youve practiced strumming your banjos, youre ready to learn the song! Be my echo, my turn (point), your turn (point). vii. The teacher will sing phrase one, and the students will echo. viii. The teacher will sing phrase two, and the students will echo. ix. The teacher will sing phrase three, and the students will echo. x. The teacher will sing phrase four, and the students will echo. xi. The teacher will tell students to listen longer and then sing phrases one and two together and have students echo. xii. The teacher will sing phrases three and four together and have students echo. xiii. Teacher will have students strum their banjos again. The teacher will sing the entire song and students will echo. xiv. If the students have any difficulties, the teacher will sing the problem part and have students echo. c. Closure: i. Teacher will tell students to stand (or to form a circle if one is not already formed) and show them how to turn to their right and step the beat together. ii. The teacher will ask students to listen to the song and raise their hand when they hear what is different. iii. The teacher will then sing the song and instead of sing Dinah, Dinah she will sing Me, me. (Have students identify Me, me.) iv. Teacher will have students sing song only when microphone is pointing at them and use the microphone to point at herself to sing Me, me as a solo. v. Teacher will choose a student to face the corner or the chalkboard who will have to guess who is the next soloist singing, Me, me. vi. The teacher will ask students to raise their hand silently if they want to be a soloist. Class will sing Dinah with the soloist singing me, me instead of Dinah, Dinah and blindfolded student will have 3 guesses to find the soloist. vii. If time allows, teacher will model and class will sing Dinah with the soloists name in place of Dinah.

viii. Repeat game as desired. ix. If running out of time, have students move and choose soloists to sing their own name in place of Dinah. V. Assessment a. The teacher will monitor and listen to the children as they perform the vocal sirens. b. The teacher will monitor and listen to the children as they sing Dinah to determine if the class is learning the song. c. The teacher will listen to the children as they sing Dinah and Me, me independently to determine if they have mastered the song individually.