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Long and Short Sounds for Halloween
| Location: | CEP - Center for Educational Programs |
| Grade: | 1 |
 General Music
1GM-4 develop an awareness of long-short sounds (QCC) (1GM_A1999-4)
1GM-16 identify pre-notation symbols such as line notation and stick notation (QCC) (1GM_F1999-16)
1GM-20 add simple sounds to songs... poems and stories (QCC... CE) (1GM_H1999-20)
Type: Regular
Core/Supplemental Materials:
Share The Music, "Pumpkin Stew" |
Assessment Option(s):
1) Observing and listening to the chanting, clapping, and playing of short and long sound patterns
2) Visually checking each child's paper strip patterns |
Activity:
- Teacher and students echo-sing the song twice.
- Teacher introduces rhythmic piece with motions (T241) using short and long sounds.
- Students practice the speech piece with motions.
- Teacher and students discuss the words that have long and short sounds.
- Teacher and students discuss and experiment with instruments that could be played in the rhythmic piece to demonstrate the long and short sounds. Instruments are then selected.
- Students, accompanied by the CD, sing "Pumpkin Stew". In the musical interlude, students chant the rhythmic piece, then repeat the song with instruments. |
