Singing Lesson Plan

Title: Charlie Over the Ocean Grade Level: 1st

Source: Mpielementary

Materials needed:
Participating students
Charlie Over the Ocean song

Procedure:

A.S: Lets sing together!

1. First, you will need to introduce the song Charlie Over the Ocean.
2. After introducing the song, break it down phrase by phrase so that the students
can sing along.
a. Start by singing the first phrase and then having the students repeat the
phrase back to you.
b. Repeat the step above until you have reached the end of the song.
c. After singing phrase by phrase, now you will put two or three phrases
together to start putting the lyrics together.
d. Continue that process until you have reached the end of the song.
e. Now you will do the song in halves. So sing the first half, then have the
students repeat, and sing the last half and have the students repeat.
f. After the halves, you will now put the whole song together and have the
kids sing along.
3. Now that the students know the song, you will introduce the activity to them.
4. Have your students sit in a circle.
5. Choose on student to be “Charlie”. This student will walk around the outside of
the circle, singing one phrase, while the rest of the class sits and repeats after
“Charlie”. Then when the song says, “can’t catch me”, the student will choose
another student to chase them around the circle.
6. The student that is playing as “Charlie” will now have to run away from the
student they chose and try to sit in the same spot the other student was sitting in
without getting caught.
7. Repeat the game and have fun!

Closure: Review the song and the game, and ask students what they had to do during the
game.
 Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned quality
memorization skills by memorizing the Charlie Over the Ocean song.

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical

Subjects
Emotional
Children will Children will Children will National Standards “Core” Music Content
play with each learn a song, chase each Standards Standards
other and have phrase by phrase other around the
fun circle and avoid 1. Singing Creating
Children will getting caught Imagine
sing the song
Plan and Make
during the
activity 2. Play Instruments Evaluate & Refine

Present
MU:Cr3.2.1a
3. Improvising
Performing
Select

Analyze
4. Composing
Interpret

Rehearse,
5. Reading & Evaluate, & Refine
Notating
Present
MU:Pr6.1.1a

Responding
6. Listening Select

Analyze

7. Evaluating Interpret

Evaluate

8. Integration Connecting
Connect #10
(outside arts)
Connect #11

9. History/Culture