Instruments of the Orchestra Unit

Woodwind Family
Kindergarten
TEKS:
117.103.(b)(4)(C) compare same/different in beat/rhythm, higher/lower, louder/softer,
faster/slower, and simple patterns in musical performances.
117.103.(b)(4)(A) identify and demonstrate appropriate audience behavior during live or
recorded performances.
117.103.(b)(1)(C) identify the timbre of instrument families.
117.103.(b)(3)(A) sing songs and play musical games, including rhymes, folk music, and
seasonal music.
Objectives: Review and recognize familiar sound, Introduce woodwind instruments and
recognize high/low sounds
Materials: B. Xylo upfront, Recording of Cuckoo in depth of the woods, clarinet, DSO clips, Zin!
book
Kindergarten:
1. Review- Sing The Cuckoo and play game
a. Have Bass xylo out infront
b. Remember to tell students to catch a bubble in needed
c. Start the song and gesture to the students to join in on Cuckoo
d. S stand up and T move students to even out rows
e. Rows two and four become trees and everyone else becomes cuckoos
f. Review meaning of scatter
g. Scatter trees (help if need be)
h. Tell S who are birds to move when the sound starts and be at a tree when it
stops.
i. Sing song with Cuckoos peering around trees
j. Repeat
k. Quietly tiptoe to instrument sound while going back to spot.
2. Listening- Cuckoo in the depths of the woods
a. Play to the first sol mi
b. Ask S what sound they heard
c. Demonstrate: Ask students to tiptoe in place when they hear the piano and
freeze with hand to ear when they hear the cuckoo
d. T leads class at first
e. Identify the cuckoo sound as the clarinet
3. Woodwind Family Instruments
a. Present Clarinet to class and talk about how it is a wood wind instrument
because it uses a wooden reed (present reed)
b. Use DSO website to play clips and use descriptions

c. Show just clarinet, flute, oboe, and bassoon

d. Play the oboe and bassoon reeds and ask which one is high and which one is low
e. What other song do we know that has a bird in it?
4. Here Comes a Bluebird
a. Review Song enough so that they can sing it on their own
b. Have S stand and hold hands in line up for windows then down for partner 16
cnts each
c. Form a standing circle and hold hands
d. Im looking for a quiet volunteer to lead the game
e. Make sure S know what going on and keep song going
f. Play game
g. Walk to drum back to spot
5. If time, read Zin, Zin, Zin! Its a Violin and/or close