Name: Joel Hernandez

District: Los Angeles Unified School District

School: Nora Sterry Elementary School
Subject: General Music
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Date of Lesson Taught: 10/8/15
Lesson Plan no.: 1
NationalStandardsForMusicEducation:

ImagineGeneratemusicalideasforvariouspurposesandcontexts.

MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic
contour).
Make and Plan- Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts
MU:Cr2.1.Ka With guidance, demonstrate and choose favorite musical ideas.
EvaluateandRefineEvaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet

appropriate criteria.
MU:Cr3.1.Ka - With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal
musical ideas.

California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards

1.0 Processing etc.
1.2 Identify and describe basic elements in music (mainly fast,
slow, loud or soft)
2.0 Creative Expression
2.2 Sing age appropriate songs
3.0
3.2 sing and play various singing games from other cultures
4.0
4.1 Create movements that correspond to different music
Objectives:
1. Retain the knowledge of how to count from 1-10 in Spanish
through use of singing.
2. To have been introduced to the names of certain Latin American
Percussion such as tambourine, clave, bongos, and guiro
3. Through visual representation, understand dynamic change from
loud and soft.
4. To develop the techniques to correctly play certain percussion
instruments
5. Become introduced to the culture of Mexico and learn about
food, dance and music though visual representation.

Equipment and Supplies

1. Stereo and Projector Equipment For showing slides of Mexican
Culture suchs as locals, cuisine, customary dress etc.
2. Son Jalicense, Son de la Negra, Aries de Mayab, Sigo Siendo El
Rey.
3. Various Latin Percussion (Drums 4, Tambourines 4, slapping wood
blocks, Clave 5 shakers 5 )
4. Cancion de Numeros- I will be playing guitar on this song, I will
be teaching the song to them aurally
5. Guitar- 1 guitar for myself to play.
Procedures
1. Sing a greeting song song, have the children kids sing with good
posture and loud voices (3 min.)
2. We will sing El Cancion de los NumerosLearn a new song in
Spanish based on counting? I will do this by first teaching how to
say the numbers 1-10 in Spanish. Then I will sing the song before
I have the kids repeat after me. Therefore the method in which
the kids will the learn the song is by immersion. I will also be
playing along on guitar. (5-7min.)
3. Identify the names of any percussion I get my hands on and
handout to students. (3 min.) This depends largely on what was
avaible which at the time was hand drum, tambourines, egg
shakers, slap stick wood blocks. I assume there was about 5
instruments of each type that I had mentioned before.
4. Have the class repeat the names of the various percussion
instruments for memorization (1 min.)
5. Play loud and soft dynamic games with visual guides. I will have
a poster or sheet of paper that has the loud/soft dynamics that
represents when the kids should play loud and soft. (2 min.) The
symbols were Mr. Mouse for soft and Mrs. Lion for loud.
5. Play to slow songs and fast songs to learn about tempo with the
recordings of Mexican folk music. This will happen in conjunction
when I play the folk music. When I play the song whether the
tempo is fast or slow. Then I will ask the children play randomly
at the speed in which represents the speed of the song they are
listening to (5 min.)
6. Put the percussion instruments away for the next section.
7. Learn about Folk Music of Mexico. I will do this by playing
different styles of folk music from various regions of Mexico. For
example I will play a Son Jalisence that originates from the Jalisco
Province of Mexico. (5 Mmin.)
8. Sing good bye song (1 min.)

Evaluation:
While I did my best to approach this lesson with the intent to
enrich the cultural understanding of Mexico to the students though
music, it did not look like many of the students took away much from
the lesson. The transitions used for the lesson didnt quite help either
and the students appeared to have fun but there was little material
that appeared to have stayed with them after the lesson was over.
What needs to happen for the future is that there has to be theme or
musical idea that the lesson revolves around. Then deriving a lesson
plan around an idea will help in the cohesive effort of future lessons.
Ideally the kids would be able to have retained more if this lesson
wasnt so filled with different not aligning ideas and musical activities.
Over all I just need to have better constructed plans that are more
cohesive and revolves around a central Idea. I didnt see the children
take away anything from this lesson that could help with them
musically. I have failed.
Extension:
My future lesson plan I wish to try out is one that I tried to
implement last year. It will be to learn an African stick passing game
while learning to sing a new song From Ghanaian culture. I will make
sure that the children get the full benefit of learning a new culture and
appreciating its music. I will have better prepared a lesson plan and
know every single piece of equipment I will need to better enrich the
experience for the children. If I were to implement this lesson plan
again I would make sure that the children would only have to worry
about either loud vs. soft dynamics in percussion playing and dancing
to Mexican music and appreciating its cultural significance.