Grade One Unit Plan

Joy and Winter Celebrations December 2016 7 classes

Generative Topic: Now that the students have established a strong core of
musical elements they can practice and use these in partnership with winter
celebration songs. The pieces will be both old classics that they are likely to be
familiar with as well as some new songs from different cultures. From all of
these pieces we will explore the musical elements that we have learned up until
now as well as putting some concrete terms on some aspects that they are
already likely aware of such as verse and chorus. Also we will begin to
elaborate on some knowledge already obtained and turn loud and soft into
forte and piano. The entire month will be a journey through joyful and loving
songs celebrating one another, our histories, and our diversities.
Unit Title: Joy and Winter Celebrations
Big Idea: Pull everything learned so far into familiar and new pieces to concrete
the knowledge.
Essential Questions:
1. How can I see what I have already learned in pieces I already know?
2. Why is it important to learn about celebration songs from other cultures?
3. How can I continue to build on what I have already learned?
Concepts Taught:
Curricular Outcomes:
F2 A section may be repeated
Section can be repeated (verse or
E2 Music may be soft (p) or loud (f)
chorus)
E6 Music reflects our feelings about holidays,
Introduce forte/piano
seasons, our country, and cultural heritage
L2 Identify and compare sounds: loud soft
L7 Be aware of and enjoy seasonal, holiday, and
ethnic music
M5 Improvise movement for loud-soft
RW8 - Read p and f
C2 Use instruments to create sounds of loud-soft

Activities:
- Tommy Tiddlemouse
- Hanukah is Here
- Jack in the Box
- Time for Toys
- Jingle Bells
- Dance for Hanukah
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- Oh! What Fun!
- Up on the Housetop
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Materials Needed:

Lesson Summary
Joy and Winter Celebrations December 2016 7 classes

Less
on
1

By the end of the

lesson, students
will be able to
Show an
understanding of
MSL on both the
finger staff and by
using sol-fa hand
signs
Perform ABA form

Apply their
knowledge of
rhythm to words
Recall the work on
MSL from the
previous day

Connect their
knowledge of loud
and soft to forte
and piano, then use
it in a song
Use body
percussion to dance
to a traditional song
Describe the
rhythm of a song
using body
notation.
Identify the verse
and chorus of a
song and recognize

Assessment/
Evaluation
Observation
Checklist
- MSL

Observation
Checklist
- Accurately
speaking
rhythmica
lly
- Unpitched
perc.
technique
Observation
Checklist
- f/p

Observation
Checklist
- Ta ti/ti
notation
- Verse/Cho
rus

Activities

Follow the Leader

(2min)
Tommy Tiddlemouse
(10 min)
- Words
- Sol-fa/finger
staff
Hanukah is Here (12
min)
Jack in the Box (6 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Time for Toys (15 min)
Hanukah is Here (5
min)
Tommy Tiddlemouse
(8 min)

Follow the Leader

(2min)
Jingle Bells (8 min)
- f/p
Dance for Hanukah (12
min)
Jack in the Box (10
min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Time for Toys (8 min)
Tommy Tiddle mouse
(10 min)
- Body notation
Rudolph the Red

Resources

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that they may be

repeated several
times.
Identify the verse
and chorus of a
song and recognize
that they may be
repeated several
times.
Present rhythms by
reading them as
notated.
Differentiate
between forte and
piano
Present rhythms by
reading them as
notated.
Differentiate
between forte and
piano

Express emotion
through creating
music

Observation
Checklist
- f/p
- reading
rhythms
- Verse/cho
rus

Observation
Checklist
- reading
rhythms
f/p worksheet

Observation
Checklist
- exhibiting
emotion
through
music

Nosed Reindeer (10

min)
- Verse/Chorus
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Oh! What Fun! (8 min)
Jingle Bells (4 min)
Up on the Housetop (3
min)
Tommy Tiddle Mouse
(5 min)

Marionette Game (10

min)
Oh! What Fun! (5 min)
Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer (5
min)
Jingle Bells (review f/p)
f/p worksheet
Jack in the Box (5 min)
Follow the Leader
(2min)
Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer
Jingle Bells
Up on the Housetop
Santa Claus is Coming
to Town
We Wish you a Merry
Christmas

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