Caroline Samoska

T255 Teaching Music

Song: "The Beaver Song"

Musical Element to Teach: Rhythm through Creative Movement -
being able to move to the beat.

Grade Level: Third

Concept: The students will feel the beat in the song and will
also move their own bodies, however they want, to express the
words of the song.

Objectives: The students will: Sing "The Beaver Song"
after rote teaching procedures are used. Move with the rhythm
of the song Make up their own actions for each verse.

Materials needed:

A good imagination, a desire to have fun, and a big smile!

Preliminary Procedures:

The teacher will question the students about beavers and how they
get their work done, and lead students to the fact that beavers
rely on their teeth to get lots of their work done.

Procedures:

1. "The Beaver Song" is taught through rote teaching
procedure. The teacher will
speak carefully about watching the actions taught, but to think
about different ways to
act out the words. She will also mention that the song as rhythm
and a beat, and to
remember to stay with the beat.

2. The teacher will explain that the class will sing the entire
song together, with the
movements, practicing to stay with the beat of the song -
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3. The class will sing the song, acting like beavers and dancing
in the desired places.
The teacher will lead the song, and will alter her actions slightly,
emphasizing that
different things can be done to "jive" or "climb".

4. The teacher tells the class they are going to sing the song
one more time, and this
time the class is to make up their own jive, climbs, and dance
at the end. They just need
to be careful to stay with the beat of the song – XXX XXX
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5. The teacher will start the class again by counting to 3, and
remind students to be
creative and stay with the beat.

Evaluation:

The entire class sings "The Beaver Song" while acting
out their own movements to the
beat.

Follow – up:

The teacher asks how they felt doing their movements. The teacher
asks if it was hard
to stay with the beat of the song while singing and dancing/moving.