Preschool / Early Childhood Music Lesson Plans {Entire School Year}

Teach your youngest students using joyful, engaging, and pedagogically-sound lesson plans this year! Save by purchasing this growing bundle instead of each month separately.

The preparations for these lessons are done for you. Included in this file:

Entire year of once-a-week lesson plans and implementation videos:

• September
• October
• November
• December
• January
• February
• March
• April
• May

Thirty-Five lesson plans. Each plan includes:

• 30-35 minutes of teaching
• Objectives and "I Can" Statements
• Materials Needed
• Songs/Chants Used
• National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) Alignment
• Approximate Time for Each Activity
• Detailed Procedure
• Transitions
• Agenda for Lesson

Implementation video for each lesson. Each video includes:

• 10-20 minutes of video
• Detailed description of each activity
• Modeling of each activity
• Singing each song / speaking each chant

One introduction video

Notation for all songs

Activities / games needed for specific songs

Links for any extra downloads needed

Editable lesson plan templates for Google Drive

Extras so far:

• Projectable agenda for each lesson
• Four Voices Signs (color version and ink-saver version)
• Down by the Bay Visuals (color version and ink-saver version)
• Down by the Bay Interactive Game
• No More Pie Song Visuals (color version and ink-saver version)
• Farmer Brown Had Ten Red Apples Song Visuals
• Going on a Picnic Teacher and Student Manipulatives (color version and ink-saver version)
• Star Light, Star Bright Interactive Game (PDF version and Google Slides version)
• Fall Vocal Exploration Pathways (sample taken from this file)
• Hurry, the Food is Ready Printable Manipulatives (color version and ink saver version)
• Star Light, Star Bright Beat Chart (color version and ink saver version)
• Chop, Chop Printable Manipulatives (color version and ink saver version)
• Chop, Chop Interactive Game (PDF version and Google Slides version)
• Snowball Fight Vocal Exploration Pathways
  • 5 pathway cards provided
  • 5 pathway cards with no lines provided (have your student draw their own pathways)
  • Worksheet included for students to draw their own pathways

• Ribbon Wand Movement Shape Cards
• Who's Got a Fishpole? Song Visuals (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Weather Cards for Use with the Song Frosty Weather (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Who's Got a Fishpole? Interactive Game (PDF version and Google Slides version provided)
• In the Woods Cumulative Song Cards (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Valentine / Love Cookie Vocal Exploration Pathways (5 pathways + 1 Which One Do You Hear? PDF)
• Heart Instrument Printables for use with the song A Tisket, A Tasket (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• A Tisket, A Tasket Interactive Game (PDF version and Google Slides version provided)
• Bird and Animal Printables for use with the song Fly Around (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Rainy Day Vocal Exploration Pathways (8 pathways, 8 create-your-own pathways, 2 Which One Do You Hear? PDF) - sample from this file.
• Steady Beat Movement Printables for use with the song Here Comes a Bluebird (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Five Little Carrots Song Visuals (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Tool Printables for use with the song Johnny Works with One Hammer (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Snail Location Printables for use with the song Snail, Snail (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• See-Saw, Up and Down Melodic Contour Slides, including:
  • Entire song with contour icons
  • Entire song with contour icons and high/low arrows
  • Song phrase by phrase with contour icons
  • Song phrase by phrase with contour icons and high/low arrows
  • Color version and black-and-white version provided

• Ball Vocal Exploration Pathways (8 pathways and 8 create-your-own pathways)
• My Name is Michael Printables for use with the song My Name is Michael (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Charlie Over the Ocean Visuals for use with the song Charlie Over the Ocean (color version and black-and-white version provided)
• Charlie Over the Ocean Interactive Game (PDF and Google Slides provided)

These lessons are meant to be the start of a lifetime of music making. The overall goals for early childhood music are:

• Become beatful (able to keep a steady beat)
• Become tuneful (able to sing in-tune)
• Become artful (able to express self with music)
• Prepare for future musical concepts

The lessons are meant for use with children ages 2.5 - 5.5.

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*Please note that extra purchases of recorded music, classroom instruments, or children's literature may be necessary in order to teach the lessons in the same way modeled on the videos.

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