Children's Song "Five Fat Turkeys"

Edith Pacheco
Music 373
Final - Lesson Plan #1

Activity: Children’s Song “Five Fat Turkeys”
Grade Level: 3rd Grade
National Standards
• Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
• Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Concepts
• Music: Rhythm - Steady beat and quarter note
• Non-Music: Math – Multiplication
Skills
• Music: Singing
• Non-Music: Counting by 5’s
Objectives
The students will be able to:
• clap to steady beat and add movement to the song
• sing the song in tune
• multiply by five

Materials
• Music Book
Procedure
• Teacher greets class and has them form a big circle.
• Teacher explains to class that they will be singing a song that relates to Thanksgiving since it is right around the corner.
• Teacher will sing the entire song one time.
• Teacher will demonstrate to students how to keep a steady beat.
• Students are to keep a steady beat while the teacher is sings the song again.
• Teacher will ask students to continue the steady beat and sing along the first phrase of the song. “Five fat turkeys are we.”
• The teacher will continue to the second phrase of the song and students will sing along while keeping a steady beat “We slept all night in a tree.”
• Continue to the third phrase, “When the cook came a-round, we could-n’t be found.”
• Continue to the last phrase, “So that’s why where here you see.”
• Teacher will ask for five students to volunteer and form an inner circle.
• The students in the outer circle will march in place keeping a steady beat.
• The five students in the inner circle will also march in place and will sing the song adding movement.
• Teacher will explain to the inner circle to raise a hand and show how many fingers coincide with the number of turkeys in the song. At the second phrase students will put hands together to the side of their face and rest their head to coincide with the turkeys sleeping. At the third phrase the students will put a hand to their forehead to pretend they are looking for the turkeys.
• When the songs ends, the teacher will call another five students to the inner circle and will ask the students to begin the song with “Ten” and show 10 fingers. The outer circle continues the steady beat.
• Ask for another set of five to join the circle and begin the song with “Fifteen” and show fifteen fingers. The outer circle continues the steady beat.
• Repeat this with two more groups of five. The outer circle continues with the steady beat.
Closure
• Ask the students what note the steady beat represents.
• Ask the students what was happening when groups of five were added.
Assessment
• Were the students able to keep a steady beat?
• Were the students able to sing along and in tune?
• Were the students able to identify the quarter note in the steady beat?
• Were the students able to multiply by five and identify that it was multiplication?