Lesson Plans

Grade: 5
Date: 10/26
Concept
Expression of Music
1.1.c.
1.2.b.

Expression of Music
1.1.c.
1.2.b.

Expression of Music
1.1.c.
1.2.b.

Description
Warm-up
Review how to
hold the
recorder and
what could
make it squeak
Recorder
fingering
magnet charts
are up on the
white board
Play G-A-B-A-G
in whole notes,
then half notes,
then four
quarter notes
on each.
Hot Cross Buns
Play through
twice

Testing/Stations
Students
broken up into
four groups
Students
assign a
number order
to their group
Groups
assigned to
stations
Station 1:
testing station
Station 2:
Gently

Materials
Recorders
Recorder fingering
chart magnets
Whiteboard

Recorders
Hot Cross Buns sheet
music
Recorder music
stands
ELMO
Projector
Recorders
Recorder Rubrics
Hot Cross Buns sheet
music
Gently Sleep sheet
music
Merrily We Roll Along
sheet music
Finger chart magnets
Blank staff magnet
Magnets
Whiteboards
Markers

Page #/Trac

Sleep/Merrily
We Roll Along
Practice
Station 3:
fingering
chart/note
naming
Station 4:
chanting
rhythms
When groups
finish testing
groups rotate
stations
Notating rhythms
Pass out white
boards and
markers
Halloween
rhythm cards
on the screen
Students read
rhythms aloud
and then
notate rhythms
using quarter
notes, eighth
notes, and
quarter rests
on their white
boards
Students check
answers
against my
whiteboard
when we reveal

Whiteboards
Markers
Halloween Rhythm
Card power point