Old Macdonald Had A Woodshop

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Kinder & DIV 1 Music Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop

GLEs: Students will develop:


 enjoyment of music
 insights into music through meaningful musical activities
 self-expression and creativity
SLEs: EXPRESSION
The student will understand that:
4. Musical instruments have different tonal qualities

LISTENING
The student will be able to:
8. Follow a story told by music
Learning Students will:
Objectives  Improve (B) listening skills (P) through playing activity (M).
 Demonstrate (B) musical timing (P) by playing their instrument at the correct time (M).

Stage 3: Learning Experience


Resources to Bring:  Old Macdonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman
 Instruments: Cabasa, ratchet, wood blocks, rattle, guiro, xylophone,
sandpaper blocks
Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessments:
Introduction: Old MacDonald
 Read the story through without any instruments, discussing different
aspects of the story.
 Ask students which words in the story they think could be accompanied
by an instrument.
 Go through those specific words and ask students which instruments
that were brought to the class that they think we could use for those
words.
 Assign different instruments to different words in the story.
Body: Play Instruments Because we will be in a
 Divide the instruments that were discussed amongst the students- there classroom, only bring
will not be an instrument for each student, so the other students will be about 7 instruments
assigned to a part and will clap or mimic the part when it comes. that will be shared and
Practice a signal for when the students in each group are to play. handed out to good
 Read the story through again with the instrumentation. listeners.
 Get students to pass their instrument to someone who hasn’t played an
instrument yet, and go through the book again.

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