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Preschool Music Learning Experience Template

This document provides a lesson plan template for a preschool music activity. The objectives are for students to make sounds using various materials and control objects with their hands and fingers. Materials like bowls, spoons, bags of seeds, and rubber bands will be provided. Students will explore making sounds with the objects and compare the sounds to music. Teachers will observe students and take notes to assess their skills in making sounds and manipulating objects safely. Adaptations are provided for students with different abilities.

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Preschool Music Learning Experience Template

This document provides a lesson plan template for a preschool music activity. The objectives are for students to make sounds using various materials and control objects with their hands and fingers. Materials like bowls, spoons, bags of seeds, and rubber bands will be provided. Students will explore making sounds with the objects and compare the sounds to music. Teachers will observe students and take notes to assess their skills in making sounds and manipulating objects safely. Adaptations are provided for students with different abilities.

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10/25/16 Draft

Early Childhood Education


Learning Experience Template

Name: Mary Horvath Lesson Title: Make the Music


Date: Grade Level: Preschool ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Approaches Towards Learning: Creativity, Innovation and Invention: Use imagination and creativity to interact with objects and materials.
Physical: Motor Development, Small Muscle: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise
movements.
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Listen to a song and ask students what instruments and sounds they hear in the song. This will help the teachers
know how much about sounds and instruments the students already know.

Objectives Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

Assessed Instructional Identify Evidence: Academic Language:


Objective(s) (1 per content Teachers will keep their notes to compare what different Sound, music, instrument, hit, shake
area): students did with the materials to make sounds and were
The student will be able to able to do physically to manipulate the materials. (For Procedural steps:
make a sound with the example, some might have struggled to snap a rubber (Give instructions as a whole group, call small groups of
materials given. band). students to do activity at a time)
1. Students will be told to make sound with the
The student will be able to Program Monitoring: materials in any way they want that is safe.
control various objects with their If 90% of the class could manipulate or move around the 2. Students can explore the materials.
hands and fingers. materials, we can move on. If not, we will do another 3. Students shake or hit the materials together.
activity with fine motor skills to strengthen these muscles 4. Students show each other and the teacher the
Assessed Developmental and neural connections. sounds they are making.
Skill: If 80% of the class made an observation about the sound 5. Students talk about (with teacher probing) the
The student will be able to use of their own or others’ work, we will move on. If not, we will difference in the sounds they make. How does it
the materials safely and not hurt try another sound making activity and provide sentence compare to music/instruments they hear?
themselves or others. stems to help scaffold this learning. 6. Students put the objects back in the middle how
they were for the next group.
Safety Considerations: Differentiation:
Students using the objects to For a student who has a hard time with fine motor skills or Authentic Materials:
hurt themselves or others. cannot hold the materials, the student can use different Plastic bowls, wooden spoons, bags of seeds, empty
materials that are easier (such as hitting a bucket with their soup cans, Velcro, rubber bands
hand).
If a student has little control over their hands, the teacher Adult Roles:
can move the objects to their hands for them to hit or they Give directions.
can kick it with their feet. Supervise material use.
For a student who has a hard time speaking English, put Take observational notes and anecdotal records to record
labels on the materials with their native language to help data and common themes
them learn English. Help students hold materials and/or model how to if
Provide sentence stems for students who struggle to talk needed.
about the sounds. Provide sentence stems and/or as appropriate, thought-
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provoking questions to help students make observations.

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