Singing

Music Lesson Plan

Title: Grizzly Bear Grade Level: Kindergarten

Source: Willa Van Houten and Hayleigh Hill

Materials needed:
Grizzly Bear song lyrics- folk song
Image of a Grizzly Bear

Procedure:

A.S:
“Can anyone here name a type of bear for me?”
“Where do bears typically live?”
“Can anyone tell me what a folk song is?”

- A folk song is a song passed down throughout generations.

1. First, Miss Hayleigh and I will sing a folk song for you guys, and then we will sing it together with
you guys repeating after us.

2. SONG
Grizzly bear, a grizzly bear is sleeping in a cave. (repeat)
Please be very quiet, very very quiet,
If you wake him, if you shake him, he gets very mad!

3. Repeat after me:

“Grizzly bear, a grizzly bear is sleeping in a cave”

“Please be very quiet, very very quiet,”

“If you wake him, if you shake him, he gets very mad!”

4. Repeat after me in larger parts:

“Grizzly bear, a grizzly bear is sleeping in a cave.
Please be very quiet, very very quiet.

5. Repeat after me with the whole song:

“Grizzly bear, a grizzly bear is sleeping in a cave.
Please be very quiet, very very quiet.
If you wake him, if you shake him, he gets very mad!”

6. Sing the whole song with us.

“Grizzly bear, a grizzly bear is sleeping in a cave.
Please be very quiet, very very quiet.
If you wake him, if you shake him, he gets very mad!”
The Activity:

1. Students stand in a circle on the carper.

2. One student will lay down in the middle of the carpet and pretend to be the grizzly bear. 3.
Students will march around the circle while singing the song we have rehearsed. 4. During the
last word of the song “MAD!” the students will freeze and the blackbear will wake up.
5. Any student that did not freeze will be “out” and then there will be a new grizzly bear.
6. Repeat the game 4 times so there will be a variety of students as the grizzly bear.

Closure:

“Was it hard to sing and march at the same time?”

“What was the name of the bear that gets mad when they are woken up?

Educational Objective:
- Using soft and loud voices when singing since we were trying not to wake the bear.
Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-
Musical
Emotional
Subjects

Interacting Marching National Standards Content

“Core” Music Standards
with their and
Standards
peers. singing
1. Singing
Creating
Imagine

Plan and Make

2. Play Instruments
Evaluate & Refine

Present

3. Improvising
Performing
Select

Analyze
4. Composing
Interpret

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/Culture