1st Grade Music Standards 1st Grade ELA Standards

Phonological Awareness
M1GM.3a Reads quarter and paired
eighth notes and quarter rests using non-
traditional AND/OR traditional notation
M1GM.2b Students perform steady beat
with accuracy
ELAGSE1RF2: Demonstrate understanding of
spoken words, syllables, and sounds
(phonemes)
d. segment spoken single-syllable words
into their complete sequence of
individual sounds

Materials
 Pease Porridge chart and recording
 Worksheet/pencil
 Egg shakers and hand drums
 White boards and expo markers
PROCEDURE

 Introduce poem “Pease Porridge Hot”

 Students perform the steady beat differently for each playing
of the song (add drums to keep the steady beat)
 Students review poem “The beat stays the same, the beat
stays the same. But the rhythm, changes with the words.”
 Students speak the words while clapping the rhythm (add egg
shakers to play the rhythm)
 Review quarter note, eighth notes, and quarter rest (drawing
on white boards)
 Distribute Pease Porridge Worksheet, students draw rhythms
into the bowls to match the rhythm (syllables) of the words