Twinkle Twinkle
Grade: K-1st
Duration: 30 min
Repertoire: Twinkle Twinkle
Materials: Kira Boshi youtube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxxw06YhlE), Mozart variations youtube clip, floor piano (or a way for students as a class to dictate the first phrase of Twinkle Twinkle), large solfege note heads, projector to show notation of Twinkle on whiteboard, computer
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Procedure
Prepare:
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Grade: K-1st
Duration: 30 min
Repertoire: Twinkle Twinkle
Materials: Kira Boshi youtube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxxw06YhlE), Mozart variations youtube clip, floor piano (or a way for students as a class to dictate the first phrase of Twinkle Twinkle), large solfege note heads, projector to show notation of Twinkle on whiteboard, computer
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Procedure
Prepare:
- As students walk in, sing solfege scale (preparing for solfege practice)
- Sing Twinkle Twinkle- include solfege hand motions
- Repeat to enforce hand motions
- Ask how our movements matched our voices
- Teach first phrase in solfege. Repeat until they can do it by themselves)
- Move over to floor piano- dictate first phrase of Twinkle
- Give students the first note- Do
- What comes next in the song? (another Do)
- What comes next? (Sol) How do we know where “sol” is going to go?
- Have students point to the lines and spaces of the staff as they sing up from Do to Sol. Ask students where Sol should go.
- Continue until students have notated the first phrase of the song.
- Turn on the projector. On the projector should be the same phrase of Twinkle that the students dictated on the floor.
- Compare to floor piano (they are the same!)
- Sing song looking at whiteboard
- Discuss rhythm of song
- What happens if we change the rhythm?
- Write a new rhythm on the board, have them chant the new rhythm
- Substitute the two quarters on each solfege with the new rhythm. Have students sing the whole song with this new rhythm.
- Play Mozart’s variations.
- Follow notation as first variation is playing
- Discuss instrumentation (just piano)
- Pretend to play piano during next variation- what was different?
- Have students stand up for the next variation. Demonstrate motions for them to follow, or have them come up with their own motions.
- Have students sit back down and recap how the music changed throughout the song.
- First time was just the theme, as they normally sing
- Second variation had more notes, sounded faster
- Third variation was louder, sounded like a march
- We can change the language too!
- Play video of Japanese Twinkle
- Repeat after me phrases in Japanese (with lyrics on whiteboard)
- Kira kira
- Hikaru
- Osora no
- Hoshi yo
- Sing song in Japanese
- Sing song with video
If you would like to see an example video of me teaching this lesson, please contact me!
Contact me:
ouellete@salineschools.org
(734)-429-8000 ext. 4838
ouellete@salineschools.org
(734)-429-8000 ext. 4838