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Music Lesson Plans for Kindergarten, #1-10

Do you need fun, engaging, and easy to prep music lessons for Kindergarten? My music lessons for Kindergarten include detailed processes, with songs, games, and activities your students will love! This comprehensive set includes 10 Kindergarten music lesson plans that prepare high/low, steady beat, and fast/slow, and prepare, present, and practice loud/quiet.

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These music lesson plans for Kindergarten will have your students moving, singing and falling in love with music class!

**All of my lesson plans are National Core arts standards aligned and EDITABLE!

What’s included in each editable lesson:

🎵 Lesson Objectives & I Can Statements 🎵 Explanation of current lesson to previous & future lessons 🎵 Transitions, activities, procedures, and assessments 🎵 Approximate time needed for each song or activity 🎵 Up to 250 minutes of instructional time (10 lessons of 25 minutes each)

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🎵 National Core Arts Standards Handbook for Kindergarten 🎵 EDITABLE Google Slides for projecting the lesson agenda 🎵 Distance & and/or blended learning suggestions 🎵 Materials for each lesson (Note: most are included with each lesson, but some, like recordings or picture books, would have to be purchased) 🎵 An overview of each lesson, including concepts, skills, etc. 🎵 Suggestions for additional activities, if you meet with students for more than 25 minutes

**These music lessons for Kindergarten could also easily be adapted for use with first grade students.

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Music Class Lesson Plan Ideas Using an AI Chatbot

In ChatGPT or your favorite AI chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to help you create music lesson plans for your students. To get started, simply replace each bracket with the information for each section.

Music Class Lesson Plans Prompt

You are an expert music teacher and curriculum designer. Create [number] lesson plan ideas, ranging from [number range] minutes each, for [grade level] students learning about [topic]. Lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Include songs with movement, singing games, and movement to a steady beat. Activities may include the use of [teacher accessible instrument(s)] for the teacher, or the use of [student accessible instrument(s)] for students.

Example Prompt

You are an expert music teacher and curriculum designer. Create 10 lesson plan ideas, ranging from 10-25 minutes each, for my kindergarten students learning about patterns in music. Lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Include songs with movement, singing games, and movement to a steady beat. Activities may include the use of a piano or guitar for the teacher, or the use of castanets, egg shakers, or musical triangles for students.

Make the Prompt Work for You

Have ChatGPT expand on the lessons in myriad ways - ask for more activity ideas, ways to assess learning, specific standards, differentiated lessons. If needed, ask for direct instruction: "Idea 3 mentions 'percussion.' Provide age appropriate background for this lesson, including how I can explain percussion."

Enlist the help of ChatGPT to plan units as well as lessons. In addition to activity ideas, use the chatbot to map out a month long unit, or your curriculum for the year. 

Ask ChatGPT for ideas to relate the music lessons to the rest of your students' curriculum. In this example, patterning can be incorporated into virtually all subjects: counting and sequencing patterns, language and alliteration patterns, patterns in nature, color patterns, movement and dance patterns, etc.

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