Category: Language Arts
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Objective:
Language Arts TEKS K.3A
Listening/speaking/audiences/oral grammar. The student speaks
appropriately to different audiences for different purposes and occasions.
The student is expected to: choose and adapt spoken language appropriate
to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate
volume and rate.
Music
TEKS K.4B
Response/evaluation.
The student responds to and evaluates music and musical performance.
The student is expected to: identify higher/lower, louder/softer,
faster/slower, and same/different in musical performances.
Behavioral Objective:
The students will choose voice volume appropriateness for certain places
discussed in class.
Materials:
Markers and
white board
Activities:
Introduce lesson by talking about places where it is appropriate to talk or
speak loudly and/or softly as well as calmly and/or with excitement.
For example, at church we normally speak softly and calmly, while at a
football game we speak loudly and with excitement. Ask children for
more examples of various places and appropriate ways to talk or speak at
these places. Using the white board, write down all of the different places
named by the children. For example: (1) football game, (2) meeting,
(3) church.
Process:
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Say the words as a class.
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Divide the class into three
sections. Assign a different word to each group.
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Add body percussion.
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Drop words, body percussion
alone.
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Loud |
Football game |
Clap |
| Medium |
Meeting |
Pat |
| Soft |
Church |
Stomp |
Evaluation:
Observe that every child is able to choose voice volume appropriateness for
different places. Ask the students which of the three parts was the
loudest and which was the softest.
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