THEME: MUSIC COLOR: PURPLE SHAPE:
TRIANGLE
OBJECTIVES:
1. To experience music as language, different kinds of music,
i.e., country, rhythm and blues,
etc.
2. Music tempos, sounds made with our voices, body parts, and
musical instruments.
3. Names of different instruments, i.e., piano, drum, guitar,
etc.
4. Using music to communicate and express oneself.
Block: Display pictures of different types of musical
instruments.
Set out different types of block, wooden, metal or unbreakable
plastic.
Music studio.
Box Sculpture.
Set out motor toys and machine block accessories. Other vehicles
that may be used
ambulance (make a sound, etc.)
Radio station.
Music hall.
Art: Offer easel art daily:
Create drums out of empty coffee can.
Make shakers out of egg-shaped panty hose containers.
Musical painting.
Musical collage or mural.
Make streamer sticks (Music and Movement).
Science: See block area for extension of ideas - open ended
questions.
Water music.
Pop bottle music.
Throats.
Identifying instruments.
Matching sounds.
Recording different sounds with a variety of musical instruments
(Creative Resource ideas).
Literary: Display lots of books with musical instruments in them.
Orchestrating a favorite story using musical instruments to
represent that character. (Three
Billy Goats Gruff, Gingerbread Man, etc.)
Experiences - Parents, brothers, etc., visit the classroom and
demonstrate their talent or a trip
to a radio station.
Sticker stories with musical instruments.
Allow children to dramatize some of the stories such as Three
Billy Goats Gruff.
Bring in musical instrument and write your own made up story.
Encourage children to help write a song.
Vocabulary words - kinds of music: holiday, ceremonial,
classical, rock and roll, religious,
etc.
Equipment, whistling, compact disc player, etc.
Books: Listen to That, Max the Music Maker, The Country Noisy
Book, etc.
Dramatic Play: Set up dramatic play to represent any of the block
area ideas and /or.
Band room (Children experiment with instruments).
Dramatizing (add cassette recorder and small microphone).
Disc Jockey ( children pretend to be announcer).
Music: Songs, Poems and Finger plays theme related.
Music should consist of children's favorite and well-known songs.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Hickory Dickory Dock, If you're Happy
and You Know it, etc.
I want to lead a band (Creative Resource).
If I Could Play (Creative Resource).
Jack-In-The-Box (Creative Resource).
Playground: Centers indoors can be extended outdoors:
1. OUT DOOR DRAMATIC PLAY, Music Studio, Band Room, etc.
2. Body Movement Rhythms.
3. Musical Chairs.
4. The wind and my balloon.
5. Dance with the wind.
Rainy Day Activities:
SING SONGS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
Singing game.
Making music with the body (hands, feet, etc.).
Musical parade.
Listen to the world (365 Days of Creative Play).
Holidays:
MAY DAY - 1 MAY MOTHER'S DAY - 12 MAY MEMORIAL DAY -
30 MAY
CINCO de MAYO - 5 MAY ARMED FORCES DAY - 18 MAY