This document provides a lesson plan for a 1st grade music class on pitch and animal sounds. The lesson introduces pitch as high and low sounds. It reviews instrument names and sounds through a song. Students will play a game identifying high and low sounds. The lesson demonstrates writing pitches on a musical staff and has students practice and do independent work identifying sounds and notating their pitch on staffs.

1. C.O: Students will be able to write pitch notes on a musical pentagram
UNIT 1:
ANIMAL SOUNDS
1ST GRADE

2. REMEMBER THAT
Pitch is the word we use
when we do high pitch
and low pitch

3. Do now
What is the highest pitch you
can do with your voice?
What is the lowest pitch you
can do with your voice?
HIGH
LOW

4. LET’S REMEMBER THE PITCHES WITH THIS SONG

5. Drum Bass Triangle Violin
Whistle
Flute
DO YOU REMEMBER THE
INSTRUMENTS’ NAME AND SOUNDS?

6. Trumpet Xylophone Tuba Piano
Shakers
Tambourine
DO YOU REMEMBER THE
INSTRUMENTS’ NAME AND SOUNDS?

7. Drum
Bass
Triangle
Flute
Whistle
Violin

8. Xylophone
Tuba
Piano
Shakers
Trumpet
Tambourine

9. WE ARE GOING TO PLAY A GAME.
YOU HAVE TO GUESS IF THE
SOUNDs ARE HIGH OR LOW..

11. WHEN WE WRITE PITCHES ON THE
PENTAGRAM, IT SHOULD BE LIKE THIS

12. LET’S PRACTICE WITH SOUNDS

13. LET’S PRACTICE WITH SOUNDS

14. LET’S PRACTICE WITH SOUNDS

15. LET’S PRACTICE WITH SOUNDS

16. INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
1. Listen to the sounds
and write them on the
musical pentagram

17. First pENTAGRAM

18. SECOND PENTAGRAM

19. THIRD PENTAGRAM

20. EXIT TICKET