Kindergarten Carnival!

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Title:

Kindergarten Carnival!

URL:

http://www.keepingscore.org/sites/default/files/lessonplans/KSEd_Kindergarten_Carnival_GReed.pdf

Content Source:

Other
San Francisco Symphony
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will listen to each selection from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. They will identify the tempo and dynamics. They will move to the music and draw a picture of each animal.  They will identify their favorite piece and write a sentence about it.  

Content Standard(s):
Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Music: General
1) Explore and experience music concepts.

Example: Explore musical sources freely, using found sounds, electronic sounds, or sounds from voice or instruments found in classroom, remembering to use both sound and silence.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Music: General
14) List personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some music selections over others.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Music: General
17) Apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: K
Visual Arts
1) Engage in self-directed exploration and imaginative play with art materials.

a. Use motor skills to create two-dimensional art.

Examples: Finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings.

b. Use motor skills to create three-dimensional art.

Examples: Rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching and pulling clay.

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
37. Actively participate in shared and independent writing experiences, for varied purposes and audiences, across different genres.

a. Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create messages, lists, and labels for a drawing or illustration.

b. Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create narratives with the events in chronological order and share feelings about the story, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

c. Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create opinion pieces about a topic or text, state the opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide a sense of closure, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

d. Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create explanatory texts or provide factual information about a topic, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

e. With prompting and support, compose writing for varied purposes and audiences, across different genres.
Tags: animals, Camille Saint Saens, Carnival of the Animals, dynamics, tempo
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Comments

This chart is referenced in the lesson plan.  It explains how teachers have integrated music into the classroom.

Connection to Pathways to Integration chart

This lesson can be used with a Science unit on animals or as a standalone music unit.  

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Author: Tiffani Stricklin