2nd Grade Melody Lessons 1-7

Lesson 1

• Announce: We are learning about Melody.
• Watch Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music.
• Teach how to sing Do Re Mi.
• Sing Ebenezer Sneezer or One Cold and Frosty Morning    (more songs with major scale)
• Echo tones: mi, so and la – use Curwen hand signs. Tell them these are the 3 tones we will focus on in 2nd grade.
• Teach Bounce High    (more songs with mi, so, la activities)
  • Add motions to show the movement of the melody.

• Wolf: We Are Dancing in the Forest
  • Intro song with lap, shoulder, head movements – Show PowerPoint.
  • Play game.

Lesson 2

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale with Curwen hand signs
• Echo tones: mi, so and la
• Sing Ebeneezer Sneezer again with motions
• Bounce High with movements / Curwen hand signs
• Xylophones – each student play scale up and down, then play Ebeneezer Sneezer.
• Wolf – sing and play game

Lesson 3

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale
• Teach solami game.
• So-mi song
• Bounce High – with bouncy balls – show on board how the notes go up and down.
• Wolf – sing and play game

Lesson 4

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale
• Solami game
• Show mi – so on big floor staff.  Teach lines, spaces, step, skip
• So-mi song
• Review Bounce High – 4 students to front, each with a ball held in front of them – from left to right, have the students tell the students in what position to hold their “notes” to notate “Bounce high, bounce low”– I show ball motion and notate on board (2-lined staff)
• Hand out balls- Sing Bounce High, Wolf.

Lesson 5

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale
• Play solami.
• Sing Bounce High w/motions & balls at their seats. As we “notate” the song in the air with the balls, I show them how to start on the left and move to the right a little bit for every note.
• Introduce staff, treble clef, G clef, step, skip, line, space
• Purple felt staffs – 3-lined side – students to put “dots” on
  • Lines and spaces – I say “Put a note on line 1… space 3…”
  • So-mi – I say “Put a note on line 2. If this is “so,” where would “mi” go?” (I tell them that “mi” is a copycat to “so” and always goes on whatever “so” is on (line or space), just one below. (i.e. “If “so” is on a line, “mi” is on a line. If “so” is on a space, “mi” is on a space.”)
• Wolf and game

Lesson 6

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale
• Play solami.
• Sing Bounce High and Wolf with hand signs
  • I notate on board.
• Lucy Locket
  • Teach song
  • Students sing along and try to find if pitches go up or down.
  • Notate on board. Add stems (quarter and eighth notes) where appropriate.
• Felt staffs – 5-lined side – review how to find so-mi
• Wolf – or Lucy Locket if all students have had turns

Lesson 7

• Do Re Mi & sing entire scale
• Play solami.
• Floor staff: review how to find so – mi. Teach how to find la.
• Partners: purple felt staffs
• Sing Lucy Locket, then notate again on board – if time, play game

See also

• mi, so, la songs
• 2nd Grade Melody Lessons 8-13
• Mi, so, la worksheet
• Practice writing notes (Lucy Locket)
• Mi, so, la composition
• 2nd Grade Melody Lessons & Resources
• lesson plans