Musicplay Grade 1 Teacher's Guide & Digital Resources
Musicplay Grade 1 Teacher's Guide with Digital Resource
Musicplay is an award winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and includes seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher!
Lesson Planning
Year Plans are included for each grade
Monthly Lesson Outlines give you the month at a glance
40 weekly detailed lessons offer you a menu of musical activities. There is more than enough material in the lesson plan for two thirty minute music classes.
The lesson plans are like a menu. There are many song choices and for each song there are activities to choose from. You choose the songs and the activities that teach the curriculum concepts required by your state or province. (Musicplay is aligned to all state and provincial curriculums!) You choose the songs and activities that hold the most appeal for you and your students.
Feel free to substitute freely - Musicplay provides the framework - you get to make the choices.
Recordings
Recordings are included in the teacher’s guides! (No downloads from itunes are required)
* 4 Performance/Accompaniment CDs of songs are included in Musicplay 1
The Musicplay 1 CDs have more than 100 musical selections! Child and adult voices are used, and there are many recordings licensed from popular children’s entertainers. Accompaniments include Orff arrangements, piano accompaniments and orchestrated accompaniments. Performance songs on the CDs have both performance tracks and accompaniment tracks - you can use the accompaniments only for your performances. Multicultural songs feature authentic performances - the songs are in original languages and are sung by native singers. Many of the multicultural songs are game songs that appeal to children even though the language and sound may be unfamiliar.
All of the recordings are available to download for the teachers who do not have a disk drive. With disk drives being phased out of use, many of our teachers can no longer access the music tracks that are included with the Teacher's Guides! To keep up with technology, we are introducing a new system based on codes.
When you purchase and receive a Musicplay Teacher's Guide you will find a unique code tucked inside. This code will allow you to unlock the MP3s and have them digitally delivered to your computer. Please click here for more detailed instructions. (You will still receive the CDs with your teacher's guide.)
Assessments
Assessment suggestions are given throughout the teacher’s guides.
Checklists of important skills are included if your district requires the use of them.
Reproducibles are included in Musicplay 2-6.
Musicplay supports and enhances science, social studies, and language arts curriculums. in first grade, songs to teach vowels and consonants are included. The Big Book for Grade 1 or the Musicplay 1 Digital Resources are a wonderful early literacy tool providing many opportunities for shared reading. Students will develop reading skills while they learn music. View the song list to see the many songs that reinforce and support the themes that you teach in Grade 1.
Musicplay is a curriculum that can be used by a classroom teacher with limited musical training. However, music specialists will appreciate the planning and sequencing that is done for them. Musicplay is used throughout Canada and the USA and in many international schools.
Samples:
Plan: Year Plans for K-6
Book: Musicplay Grade 1 Lesson Samples
Book: Grade 1 Song List
Book: Ontario Grade 1 Correlations
Book: Grade 1 Scope & Sequence
Audio: Choo Choo Train
Audio: Sam the Robot Man
Musicplay 1 Song List:
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1. Dooby Dooby Doo 3. Little Red Wagon 4. Snail Snail 5. Sam the Robot Man 6. The Music Time is Over 7. The Grand Duke of York 8. Wheels on the Bus 9. Choo Choo Train 11. Apples and Bananas 12. Counting Song 13. Hickory, Dickory Dock 14. Goin’ to Kentucky 15. Jack and Jill 16. Rock Around the Alphabet 17. Hop Old Squirrel 18. Ten in the Bed 20. Bye Low Baby Oh 21. I’m Thankful 22. High-Low 23. I Like Turkey 24. Hey Betty Martin 25. Five Fat Turkeys 26. Today is Monday 27. Magic Spell 28. The Witch’s Cat 29. Bats and Cats 31. Juanito 32. Peace in my Heart 33. Just One Candle 34. Bounce the Ball 35. Thread the Needle 36. Cuckoo 37. Lucy Locket 39. The Other Day 40. The Bear Went Over the Mountain |
41. Hello Game 42. Down by the Bay 43. Fais do do 44. Pulchinello 45. Elevator 46. Hanukkah Fun 47. Lemonade 48. New Teeth for Christmas 49. Up on the Housetop 50. Ho Ho Ho! 51. The Bells on the Sleigh 52. Love My Slippers 53. Mary Had a Baby 54. One Big Family 55. Strawberry Shortcake 56. Pimpon 57. Vive le Compagnie 58. Icicles 59. Little Red Car 60. Tommy Tiddlemouse 61. Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes 62. Miss Lucy 64. Un, Deux, Trois 65. Michael Row 66. Rig a Jig Jig 67. Aikendrum 68. I Like You 69. Tick Tock 70. Haul Away Joe 71. Mr. Potato Head 72. Wishy Washy Wee 73. When I Was One 74. We Are Dancing in the Forest 75. I Know a Little Pussy 76. My Cat |
77. The Old Gray Cat 78. Bee Bee Bumblebee 79. Bringin Home my Baby Bumblebee 80. Lucky Leprechaun 81. Eensy Weensy Spider 82. Bingo 83. My Dog 84. Train my Parents 85. Feelin’ Alive 86. Bow Wow Wow 87. Little Rabbit Foo Foo 88. Five Little Ducks 89. Bunny Hides a Basket 90. Hurry Easter Basket 91. Bunny Rabbit Boogie 92. Let’s Save Water 93. Little Bunny 94. Apple Tree 95. Sing a Country Song 96. Old Dog Full of Fleas 97. That’s My Mom 98. Down on Grandpa’s Farm 99. Oats and Beans and Barley Grow 100. Savez vous planter les choux 101. How Many Fingers? 102. La Vibora, 103. El Coqui 104. Heebie Jeebies 105. Charlie Over the Ocean 106. Five More Days Til Vacation 107. The Eat Song 108. O Canada 109. My Country ‘tis of Thee 110. Star Spangled Banner 111. You’re a Grand Old Flag |
Musicplay Grade 1 Digital Resources
For teachers with a Smartboard, IWB or computer/projector
What’s included:
Every musical selection that is in Musicplay 1 is given in 3 formats
1. PowerPoint with audio
2. QuickTime movie of the song lyrics - just click and the song plays, switching the slides for you
3. Smartboard Files (audio is inserted into the one slide lyrics)
Each presentation includes:
- Musical notation
- Song lyrics with colorful illustrations - great for shared reading!
- One slide lyrics
- Color coded Boomwhacker® melodies for simple reading and scale songs
- Slides to teach students how to read music: rhythm, melody, expression
- Kids demo movies of many of the singing games
- Orff arrangements
- Searchable Excel index
- Links to excellent websites
- If teachers have a Smartboard in their classroom, they can use all the interactivity of the board when using the Smart Notebook files.
Samples:
Powerpoint: Grand Old Duke of York
PPT as PDF: Grand Old Duke of York
SMART Board: Grand Old Duke Notebook
Digital Resources Samples
