Grade: FirstSubject: General MusicFocus: Steady BeatRelated Subject: Greetings/NamesLesson adapted from: Share the Music, 1, pg. T1G

Objective: Students will pat with a steady beat while echoing a speech piece line by line and pat with a steady beat imitating you

Standards: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the arts

Materials: Picture of children and parents on the playground doing various activities. Hello by Teresa Jennings Hey, Children, Whos in Town by Carl Bitcon

Differentiation: Stand behind the child who needs help keeping the beat and tap with the beat bilaterally on his or her shoulders as the child pats with the beat on his or her knees. So this activity as they say, Hey Children, Whos in Town?-but stop whenever they echo individual names.Lesson:

Get Set: Tell students, Hello. Im so happy to see you all today. (Say something nice about each child if possible, noticing a nice smile, a bright shirt, or the way he or she entered the room.) Listen to this song and pat with the beat as I sing. Have children: Listen to Hello, patting with the beat Think of different ways to greet one another, such as sating Hi, How are you, Its good to see you, and howdy, or making a gesture such as waving, shaking hands, or bowing. Tell children, When you see people, its nice to give them a greeting. You can greet them with a song. Today youll learn the Hello song.

Develop: 1. Say Hello. Have children: Look at the picture and describe the ways of saying hello Say hello to each other using the ideas from the pictures. (smile, wave)2. Echo the word hello in Hello. Have children: Listen to the song and wave hello to someone each time they hear the word hello Echo you saying the word hello using different voice functions Echo the melodies for the word hello in the song Listen to the song, singing the echoes for the word hello

3. Introduce Hey, Children, Whos in Town? Say the speech piece and pat with the steady beat. . Have children: Sit in a circle Listen as you pat with the steady beat, using both hands, and say the rhyme. Informal Assessment: Have children echo each line of the speech piece after you, patting with the steady beat Say their names one at a time in groups of four after each repetition of the rhyme, everyone listening to and then echoing each name until all children have had a turn. Try saying full name, address, and phone numbers

Close: Do you remember the word you echoed in the first song today? (Hello) Have children: Review the ways to say hello and say their own names Discuss some ways to say goodbye You patted with the beat when you sang the Hello song, Can you pat with the beat in another song you know? Have children: Choose and sing a favorite songs, patting with the steady beat or keeping the beat in any way they wish. Turn to someone and say three things to them: hello, your name, goodbye. Use the words Hello, my name is ______. Good-bye.