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    This lesson plan is for a kindergarten music class. The students will learn a song called "Johnny Caught a Flea" through singing and movements. They will form a circle and sing the song together, discussing what it is about. Then the teacher will break it into sections for the students to memorize. Finally, the class will perform the full song with movements like counting fingers, hands above the head, and jumping. The educational objective is for students to learn about silences in music.

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    This lesson plan is for a kindergarten music class. The students will learn a song called "Johnny Caught a Flea" through singing and movements. They will form a circle and sing the song together, discussing what it is about. Then the teacher will break it into sections for the students to memorize. Finally, the class will perform the full song with movements like counting fingers, hands above the head, and jumping. The educational objective is for students to learn about silences in music.

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    This lesson plan is for a kindergarten music class. The students will learn a song called "Johnny Caught a Flea" through singing and movements. They will form a circle and sing the song together, discussing what it is about. Then the teacher will break it into sections for the students to memorize. Finally, the class will perform the full song with movements like counting fingers, hands above the head, and jumping. The educational objective is for students to learn about silences in music.

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    Johnny Caught A Flea

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    This lesson plan is for a kindergarten music class. The students will learn a song called "Johnny Caught a Flea" through singing and movements. They will form a circle and sing the song together, discussing what it is about. Then the teacher will break it into sections for the students to memorize. Finally, the class will perform the full song with movements like counting fingers, hands above the head, and jumping. The educational objective is for students to learn about silences in music.

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    Movement Lesson Plan

    Title: Johnny Caught a Flea Grade Level: K


    Source: Dr. Michelle McConkey

    Materials needed:
    Music

    Procedure:

    A.S: Has anyone caught a bug before? What kind of bug have you caught before? Was it big or
    little?

    1. Organize the students so that they form a circle.


    2. Now sing for the students the song and the rhythm to it.
    3. Ask students the following questions:
    a. What was the song about?
    b. What did Johnny catch?
    c. What type of bug did Johnny catch?
    4. Introduce the children to their activity which is to learn the song
    5. Seperate the song into sections, and have the students memorize it.
    6. Sing a section of the song and have students repeat it back.
    7. Introduce silences to students.
    8.Now that students know the whole song, as a class sing the whole song.
    9. Introduce students to movements that go along with the song.
    a. 123 (count fingers), stomp
    b. Johnny caught a flea (Hands above head)
    c. Flea died, johnny cried (Hands to face + rock head side to side)
    d. Tee Hee Hee (Take partner hands, change places)
    e. 180 jump
    10. Perform movements while singing the song

    Closure: Reiterated silence in music.


    Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned that there are
    silences in music
    Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical
    Subjects
    Emotional
    Fun Thinking of Holding National “Core” Content
    marching parts of a hands. Standards Music Standards
    three
    Standards
    Team work Making 1. Singing
    Memorizing Creating
    all parts and parts of a
    Partner movement. three with
    2. Play
    work their hands Instruments Plan and
    Silences Make
    3. Improvising
    Evaluate &
    4. Composing Refine

    5. Reading & Present


    Notating
    Performing

    6. Listening
    Analyze
    7. Evaluating
    Interpret
    8. Integration
    (outside arts) Rehearse,
    Evaluate, &
    9. Refine
    History/Culture
    Present

    Responding
    Select

    Analyze

    Interpret

    Evaluate

    Connecting

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