Art/Music Topic: Using Music to Express Yourself Ages: 4-5
Text/Materials Used:
-Two white king sized sheets
-Tempura Paint (eight different colors)
-Soap
-Water
-Disney CD
-Paint Pans
-Dish Tubs filled with soapy water (eight)
Behavioral Objectives:
In this lesson, students ages four and five will express their feelings towards certain
musical pieces by dancing, with paint on their feet, on a white sheet. The students will
have colored paint on their feet to record heavy footsteps in accord to loud music and
tip toe in accord to soft music. Because of having his/her own individual paint color,
the creation will allow the students to distinguish their own feet as well as test their
recognition of the pattern of footsteps matching up with certain songs. Students may
also achieve satisfactory aggression release by participating in this activity.
Procedures:
First of all I need to set up. There will be eight paint tins filled with eight
different colors of paint and a little bit of soap and water added (to make it easier to
clean off of feet) - one for each child. There will also be eight Dish Tubs filled with
soapy water to allow the children to wash their feet off in after they are finished with
the paints. I will put a Disney CD in the CD player (music most children will recognize)
and let it play while the children start to come in for the day so they will become
familiar with the songs. I will then talk about loud and soft music and ways to express
it (show tip toeing and jumping as it pertains). I will explain that we are going to
paint with our feet so that they can really see the difference between tip toeing and
jumping. The children will then put their smocks on and wait for their paint. The
students will step in their paint and I will put the CD back on and play two songs - one
soft, one loud. The students will then be told to act out what I just told them about -
when a quiet song comes on they can tip toe and when it becomes loud the can jump up and
down. Students will be allowed to put more paint on their feet if they "run low." The
art/music dancing will last around ten minutes or longer depending how interested they
stay in the project. We will then step into the Dish Tubs of water and wash our feet
off. From there we will let the sheets dry and come back to it after lunch. When we are
back we will look at the sheet and look at all of the individual footprints...we will
discuss who was tip toeing and what song the steps went to and if it was loud or soft. I
will also ask if it was a fun project and if they would like to do it again sometime.
Evaluation:
The students are already able to distinguish between loud and soft and know how to
control themselves with paint. I believe that as long as everyone controls themselves
and seem to stay focused for ten minutes of jumping then the lesson was good. We are not
focused on making students get the point in one day, we want to introduce ideas and come
back every now and then to enhance what we introduced. We also like to promote
aggression release through activities rather than giving and opportunity to allow
fighting.
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