UNIT PLAN- GRADE 2 October

12 Lessons
Generative Topic: In the grade two music classroom, there is so much that needs to be repeated class
after class for them to ensure they understand. Yet, students need to have excitement and enjoyment
of music class driving them to succeed. Because October is full of holidays, I will be using both
Thanksgiving and Halloween throughout my October unit to ensure the students stay excited about
what they are learning. Students will spend the month of October looking heavily at rhythmic patterns,
dynamics, phrases, and time signatures
Unit Title: Autumn; Thanksgiving and Halloween
Big Idea: By the end of this unit, students will understand simple rhythmic patterns in association with
time signatures
Essential Questions:

1. How are phrases in music similar? How are they different?

2. What is tempo?
3. How do rhythm patterns changed based on time signature
Concepts Taught:

Rhythmic patters are devisions of beat

A piece of music is broke into sections (AB, ABA, etc.)
Music has dynamic changes
Students will be able to determine when the melody a
piece of music rises or falls
Determine and respond to musical phrases
Identify musical patterns
Show awareness of musical patterns through movement
Basic understanding of sol-fa to include re and do
Be able to have a basic understanding of how to play
simple rhythms
Dictate rhythms played by teacher
Begin to differentiate between various note values
Be able to identify 2/4 and 3/4 time signatures
Be able to identify the treble clef and musical staff

Curricular Outcomes:

Activities:

Various Thanksgiving games

Wind up the Apple Tree
Im the fattest turkey
A big fat turkey
Five fat turkeys
Falling leaves
Autumn- Vivaldi

Creating Movements and scenes

Roll Call song
Footprints
Jumping Joan
Monster, Monster, Monster Man
SML cards
Rhythm Games
Must be Halloween
Three little Muffins
Skin and Bones
This is what I can do
Statue Shapes
Hey there Mr. Monday
Down Came a Bat
Birds and Bats
Pass the Witches broomstick
Fossils (move like bones)
Witchs Stew

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat and divisions

of the beat
FO4- A whole piece of music may be comprised of a
number of sections
EX9- Music dynamics may change suddenly or gradually
L9- Detect the rise and fall of melody
L11- Respond to phrases in music
L10- Identify like and unlike patterns in music
MO9- Through movement show awareness of changes in
tempo, dynamics and mood
SI9- Extend the use of sol-fa training with hand signals to
include re and do
PI8- play simple rhythm patterns
RW9- Draw stick rhythm patterns from dictation
RW12- Recognize whole, half, quarter, eighth notes and
the whole, half and quarter rests
RW13- Recognize 2/4 and 3/4 time signatures
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble cleff sign

Materials Needed:

Grade 2 Game Plan

Movement in Steady Beat- Phyllis Weikart
Music time again
Musicplay- Grade 2

Assessment
Assessment Tool
Observational checklist
used to assess student
ability to keep beat while
singing simple songs

Outcomes

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat

Quick paper quiz to

assess whether students
can identify So, Mi and
La

For

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess student ability to
keep beat while singing simple songs

Using this quick paper quiz teacher will

assess whether students can identify
So, Mi and La

Observational checklist
used to assess student
ability to maintain
rhythmic patterns while
singing basic melodies

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to differentiate
between musical tempos
using movement

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to differentiate
between musical tempos
through movement

Observational checklist
used to assess students
ability to differentiate
between musical
sections using
movement

Paper quiz to assess

whether students are
able to identify the
rhythms they heard

Quick paper quiz to

assess whether students
can identify So, Mi, La,
Re, and Do

Description

Observational checklist
used to assess student
knowledge of the
beginnings of the Sol Fa
scale

Observational checklist
used to assess student
understanding of
beginning time
signatures

Quick paper quiz to

assess students
understanding of the
treble clef

Observational checklist
used to assess student
understanding of
patterns and phrases

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat
FO4- A whole piece of music may be
comprised of a number of sections
EX9- Music dynamics may change suddenly
or gradually

FO4- A whole piece of music may be

comprised of a number of sections
EX9- Music dynamics may change suddenly
or gradually

FO4- A whole piece of music may be

comprised of a number of sections
EX9- Music dynamics may change suddenly
or gradually

PI8- play simple rhythm patterns

RW9- Draw stick rhythm patterns from
dictation
RW12- Recognize whole, half, quarter, eighth
notes and the whole, half and quarter rests
PI8- play simple rhythm patterns
RW9- Draw stick rhythm patterns from
dictation
RW12- Recognize whole, half, quarter, eighth
notes and the whole, half and quarter rests
SI9- Extend the use of sol-fa training with
hand signals to include re and do
SI9- Extend the use of sol-fa training with
hand signals to include re and do

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat

As

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess student ability to
maintain rhythmic patterns while singing
basic melodies

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess students ability to
differentiate between musical tempos
using movement

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess students ability to
differentiate between musical tempos
through movement

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess students ability to
differentiate between musical sections
using movement

Using this paper quiz teacher will

assess whether students are able to
identify the rhythms they heard

Using this quick paper quiz teacher will

assess whether students can identify
So, Mi, La, Re, and Do

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess student knowledge
of the beginnings of the Sol Fa scale

Though this observational checklist

teacher will assess student
understanding of beginning time
signatures

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat
RW13- Recognize 2/4 and 3/4 time signatures
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble
cleff sign

Using this quick paper quiz teacher will

assess students understanding of the
treble clef

RH7- Rhythm patterns are made up of beat

and divisions of the beat
RW13- Recognize 2/4 and 3/4 time signatures
RW14- Recognize the music staff and treble
cleff sign

Through this observational checklist

teacher will assess student
understanding of patterns and phrases

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Lesson Summary
Lesson

By the end of the lesson, students

will be able to

Assessment/
Evaluation

Demonstrate how rhythmic patterns can

accompany melody through simple
songs

Observational checklist used

to assess student ability to
keep beat while singing simple
songs

Be able to sing the beginnings of a sol

fa scale with good tone to demonstrate
their beginner understanding of how
scales work

Activities

Various Thanksgiving games

Wind up the Apple Tree
Im the fattest turkey
A big fat turkey
Five fat turkeys
Falling leaves

Quick paper quiz to assess

whether students can identify
So, Mi and La

Various Thanksgiving games

Wind up the Apple Tree
Im the fattest turkey
A big fat turkey
Five fat turkeys
Falling leaves

Play rhythmic patterns to accompany

songs

Observational checklist used

to assess student ability to
maintain rhythmic patterns
while singing basic melodies

Various Thanksgiving games

Wind up the Apple Tree
Im the fattest turkey
A big fat turkey
Five fat turkeys
Falling leaves

Demonstrate how music can be fast or

slow through movement

Observational checklist used

to assess students ability to
differentiate between musical
tempos using movement

Statue Shapes
Hey there Mr. Monday

Move to the form of the music and

demonstrate their knowledge of like and
unlike phrases

Observational checklist used

to assess students ability to
differentiate between musical
tempos through movement

Wind up the Apple Tree

Falling leaves
Statue Shapes
Hey there Mr. Monday

Demonstrate how sections in music are

identified by letters through dance to
various classical music pieces

Observational checklist used

to assess students ability to
differentiate between musical
sections using movement

Autumn- Vivaldi
Creating Movements

and scenes

Continue to demonstrate their

knowledge and understanding of basic
rhythmic patterns through echo, simple
melodies

Paper quiz to assess whether

students are able to identify
the rhythms they heard

Roll Call song

Footprints
Jumping Joan
SML cards
Rhythm Games
Three little Muffins
This is what I can do
Statue Shapes

Expand their understanding of a sol fa

scale to include re and do with good
tone to demonstrate their beginner
understanding of how scales work

Quick paper quiz to assess

whether students can identify
So, Mi, La, Re, and Do

Roll Call song

Footprints
Jumping Joan
SML cards
Rhythm Games
Three little Muffins
This is what I can do
Statue Shapes
Monster, Monster, Monster Man
SML cards
Rhythm Games
Must be Halloween
Skin and Bones
Down Came a Bat
Birds and Bats
Pass the Witches

Demonstrate their knowledge of the solfa scale through various melody games

Observational checklist used

to assess student knowledge
of the beginnings of solfege

10

Demonstrate their understanding of a

2/4 and a 3/4 time signature by filling in
their own rhythmic patterns

Observational checklist used

to assess student
understanding of beginning
time signatures

Fossils (move like bones)

Witchs Stew
Shoooooo

Identify both the treble cleff and the

musical staff when asked to

Quick paper quiz to assess

students understanding of the
treble clef

Monster, Monster, Monster Man

SML cards
Rhythm Games
Must be Halloween
Skin and Bones
Down Came a Bat
Birds and Bats
Pass the Witches
5 little pumpkins

Demonstrate their understanding of

musical patterns and phrases through
movement

Observational checklist used

to assess student
understanding of patterns and
phrases

Monster, Monster, Monster Man

SML cards
Rhythm Games
Must be Halloween
Skin and Bones
Down Came a Bat
Birds and Bats
Pass the Witches

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