Fine Arts Standards - Age 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Strand 3: MUSIC

Music offers students the opportunity to learn songs, create music, develop self-expression, and build cultural understanding with self and others.

Standard FA 4 yr.3.1

Participate in musical activities by listening to, singing, and creating music.

• Create Musical Instruments
  Children will make their own musical instruments, use those instruments to create and perform a musical piece for an audience. 
• Nursery Rhyme - Alphabet Song
  Children will listen and sing along to the alphabet song as the letters are being pointed to on a paper, chart, or on the wall. Allow children to help point to the letters as they are ready.
• Nursery Rhyme - Five Green and Speckled Frogs
  Children will listen to a song with movements as the adult points out the words in the rhyme. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions they will point out the words and control their movements.
• Nursery Rhyme - Five Little Ducks
  Children will listen to Five Little Ducks as the adult points out the words in the rhyme.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready.. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements by keeping their arms and hands in a space close to their bodies and not in anyone else?s space.
• Nursery Rhyme - If You're Happy and You Know It
  Children will listen to If You?re Happy and You Know It as sn adult points out the words.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements.
• Nursery Rhyme - Old McDonald
  Children will listen to Old McDonald as the adult points out the words in the rhyme.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements to a designated space as they act out the animals.
• Nursery Rhyme - Once I Caught a Fish Alive
  Children will listen to and recite a rhyme as the adult points out the words.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready. 
• Nursery Rhyme - Row Row Row Your Boat
  Children will listen to Row, Row, Row Your Boat as the adult points out the words in the rhyme.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready. Child(ren) will sing the song and control their movements within a designated area. 
• Nursery Rhyme - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
  Children will listen to Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear as the adult points out the words in the rhyme.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready.. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements.
• Nursery Rhyme - Ten in the Bed
  Children will listen to Ten in the Bed as the adult points out the words in the rhyme.  Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready.. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements in a defined space. 
• Nursery Rhyme -The Wheels on the Bus
  Children will listen to The Wheels on the Bus as the adult points out the words in the rhyme. Children will participate with listening and movement.
• Playing with Music
  Children will sing a familiar song while changing a certain component of the song. This can include singing the song at a fast or slow rate, in a high voice or whispered voice, etc. 
• Playing with Sounds & Words
  Children will learn phonological awareness as they play with words and sounds.
• Songs for Weather
  Children will sing simple songs about the weather.

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