Daily life & Music teaching plan

Annieee C
Apr 23, 2025
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Updated: Apr 29, 2025

Christmas Music Factory Adventure

Grade level : K3

Total time : 30 min

Class size : 30 students

Main Learning Areas : Arts; Personal, Social & Humanities

Children's Prior Knowledge & Experience

Basic understanding of Christmas, able to say words like "Santa Claus" and "bell."
Familiar with the song We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Teaching Resources Prepared

Christmas songs : We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Percussion instruments (tambourine, maracas, triangle).
Christmas-themed videos
Magic command bell (golden bell).

Basic Competency Requirements

Learning Area: Arts

Learning Scope 1. Experience

E-1-2: Enjoy appreciating beautiful artworks and perceive their beauty.

E-1-5: Participate in various music and performance activities, experiencing the joy of free expression and creation.

Learning Scope 2. Expression & Creation

E-3-1: Hum along with melodies, clap rhythms, and use body movements and facial expressions based on song lyrics.

E-3-4: Under teacher guidance, use different tools and props for artistic creation, exploring methods of artistic expression.

E-3-5: Express and share feelings about artistic creations.

Learning Area: Personal, Social & Humanities Learning Scope 1. Self & Others

C-2-2: Learn to appreciate, respect, care for, and help others.

C-2-3: Enjoy communicating, cooperating, and sharing with others.

Learning Scope 2. Self & Social Organizations—Family, School, Community

C-3-1: Willingly participate in group activities.

C-3-5: Understand the meaning of important holidays.

General Objectives	Specific Objectives
Cognitive C-1 Understand the origin of important holidays. Affective A-1 Enjoy cooperating with others to complete tasks as a team. A-2 Enjoy participating in holiday activities. Psychomotor P-1 Learn how to use simple instruments. Learn how to use simple instruments. P-2 Develop a sense of rhythm.	Cognitive C-1-1 Know the origin of Christmas and that the original Santa Claus was named Nicholas. Affective A-1-1 Work with peers to form a band and complete a performance. Psychomotor P-1-1 Correctly use maracas, tambourine, and triangle. P-1-2 Follow musical rhythms.

Say the slogan “Adventure, go, go, go !”at the start, transitions, and end of the class to help children form routine memory.

1. Introduction Activity 5 min

1-1 Play the video "Christmas All Around the World."

Ask : "What holiday is this ?" "What do you see ?"

1-2 Video Interaction : Play the video "Christmas with Santa".

Ask, "What do children do during Christmas ?"

1-3 Transition: Shake the magic bell and say, "The factory needs little music helpers to celebrate Christmas together!"

Adventure, go go go!

2. Development Activity 15 min

2-1 Learn the song "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."

Follow the teacher to sing the song line by line.

2-2 Factory Mission

2-2-1 Christmas Gift Relay : Groups form circles and pass a Christmas stocking prop to the music. When the music stops, the child holding the stocking picks an instrument and completes a rhythm challenge (see appendix for details).

🎁 Gift : Long beats (clap and shake hands to the rhythm).

🔔Bell : Short beats (clap quickly).