Movement

Music Lesson Plan

Inanna Lewis-Wolfsen and Kaylee Rasmussen

Title: How My Body Moves Grade Level: Kindergarten

Source: The Music Connection K

Materials needed:
• Put Your Finger in the Air by Rainbow Songs

Procedure:

A.S: What are some parts of your body? Can you touch *body part named*
with your finger

1. Ask children to stand and act like their feet are stuck in cement. Encour-
age them to explore the space around them by “touching” the air in many
different places; for example, above their heads, behind their backs, by
their feet, and at their sides.
2. Sings the verse once again as the children use their fingers to touch the air
everywhere in their personal space.
3. Invite the children to experiment with putting other parts of the body “in
the air.” They might use their elbows, knees, feet, and so on, to explore
their personal space.

Closure:
1. Have the students move around in a circle and move their finger where
the song tells them. Try to have the students tap the body part to the beat
of the song.

Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musi-

cal Subjects
Emotional

Singing Thinking Move National Stan- “Core” Music Content Stan-

dards Standards dards
and danc- about parts body
ing to- of their parts ap- Creating
1. Singing Imagine
gether. body that propriate-
Plan and Make
can be ly in the
moved. area 2. Play Instru-
Evaluate & Re-
fine
around ments
them. Present

Performing
3. Improvising Select

Analyze

Interpret
4. Composing
Rehearse,
Evaluate, &
Refine
5. Reading &
Notating Present

Responding
Select
6. Listening
Analyze

Interpret

7. Evaluating Evaluate

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

9. History/Cul-
ture