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Colin O'Brien and Dalia Montiel Listening Music Lesson Plan

This lesson plan introduces kindergarten students to the song "Old McDonald Had a Farm" through listening and participating activities. Students will first listen to identify the farm animals mentioned in the song and the sounds they make. They will then learn hand motions to accompany each animal and practice singing and doing the motions together. Finally, students will listen again and choose their favorite animal to focus on. The goal is for students to actively listen and identify different elements within a song.

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Colin O'Brien and Dalia Montiel Listening Music Lesson Plan

This lesson plan introduces kindergarten students to the song "Old McDonald Had a Farm" through listening and participating activities. Students will first listen to identify the farm animals mentioned in the song and the sounds they make. They will then learn hand motions to accompany each animal and practice singing and doing the motions together. Finally, students will listen again and choose their favorite animal to focus on. The goal is for students to actively listen and identify different elements within a song.

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Colin O’Brien and Dalia Montiel

Listening Music Lesson Plan

Title: ​Old McDonald’s Animals Grade Level: ​ K


Source:

Materials needed​: “Old Macdonald Had a Farm” song

Procedure: Prepare, listen and identify, question and discuss, listen again,
activate and participate, follow up/connenction.

A.S: What kind of animals would you find on a farm? What kind of sounds
do you think they make? Well today you are all going to listen to a song
about farm animals called “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”.
1. Play “Old McDonald” the first time. Have students ​listen​ for all the
animals that are mentioned in the song.
2. Ask students what animals they heard in the song (there are 5
animals mentioned). What kind of noises did they make?
3. Introduce and demonstrate the hand movements for each animal.
4. We will do the hand movements when we ​hear​ the animal’s name
and their noises.
5. Play the song again with learned hand movements. Students can
sing along if they would like to.
6. Now we will play the song for the final time, and this time students will
be asked to pick their favorite animal that they heard and only do that
hand motion when they hear it’s name in the song.

Closure: What animals were mentioned in the song? Can you tell us what
kind of sounds they made? What was your favorite?
Educational Objective: ​ By the end of this lesson, students will have
learned . . . to actively listen to a song and identify particular animals and
their noises within the song.
Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical
Emotional Subjects

Singing Actively listening -Moving their National “Core” Music Content Standards
for animal sounds hands to mimic Standards Standards N/A
and incorporating animals.
hand movements 1. ​Singing Creating
into the song. Imagine
2. Play
Instruments Plan and Make

3. ​Improvising
valuate & Refine

Present
4. Composing
Performing
Select

5. Reading & Analyze


Notating
Interpret

6. ​Listening Rehearse,
valuate, & Refine
7. Evaluating
Present
8. Integration
(outside arts)
Responding
Select
History/Culture

Analyze

Interpret

Evaluate

Connecting
Connect #10

Connect #11

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