Listening

Music Lesson Plan

Title: ​Miss Sally’s Goodbye Song Grade Level: ​2nd Grade

Source: ​The Singing Classroom (thesingingclassroom.com)
Materials needed:
1) Print out of song “Miss Sally's Goodbye Song”
2) Device to play song
3) Puppet of your choosing
4) Recordings of animal sounds

Procedure:​ Anticipatory Set, Instructional Input, Modeling, Checking for

Understanding, Practice, Closure

A.S: Has anyone ever been shy before? Is your voice low or high? Have
any of you been excited? What level is your voice at now? Low or high?

1. “This is called dynamics and today we’re going to use our listening
skills to recognize whether what we are hearing is either low or high.”
2. “Animals also make low and high sounds. We’re going to play two
short sound clips make sure to listen closely”
3. Play a sound clip and ask students if they can guess if it’s low or high.
4. Ex: Raise your right hand if you think it was low Raise your left
hand if it was high
5. Repeat with a second sound clip and question being asked.
6. “Today we will be singing a song about goodbyes.. Goodbye can be
said in many different ways
7. “We are going to play the song, and want you to listen to the highs
and lows” -Play Song
 8. “Now we will sing the song together and we want you to do this with a
buddy or puppet. You can either use your hand or grab a fun sock to
use!”
9. “With the help of our puppet, let's sing the song” (First) T- Whisper
“Thank You” (Repeat) S- Loud “Thank You”
10. Practice Singing again (Make sure to use a low and then loud
voice)

Closure: What is the difference between shouting and whispering? Who

was the high and low one? What is a different way you learned to say
goodbye?

Educational Objective: ​ ​By the end of this lesson, students will have learned… The skill of
identifying dynamics, distinguish between high and low sounds
 Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical
Subjects
Emotional
Working in Memorizing Using hand National Standards “Core” Music Content
Standards Standards
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setting highs and movements 1. ​Singing Creating MU:Pr4.3.2a
Imagine Demonstrate
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of expressive
together accurately/ 2. Play Instruments Evaluate & Refine qualities (such
as dynamics
with on time Present and tempo)
classmates and how
3. ​Improvising Performing creators use
Select them to convey
Analyze expressive
intent
4. Composing Interpret

Rehearse,
Evaluate, & Refine
5. Reading & Present
Notating
Responding
Select

6. ​Listening Analyze

Interpret

Evaluate
7. Evaluating
Connecting
Connect #10

Connect #11
8. Integration
(outside arts)

9. History/Culture