Musicplay Grade 2 Teacher's Guide & Digital Resources
Musicplay Grade 2 Teacher's Guide
Musicplay is an award-winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and includes seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher!
Lesson Planning
Year Plans are included for each grade.
Monthly Lesson Outlines give you the month at a glance.
40 weekly detailed lessons offer you a menu of musical activities. There is more than enough material in the lesson plan for two thirty-minute music classes.
The lesson plans are like a menu. There are many song choices and for each song, there are activities to choose from. You choose the songs and the activities that teach the curriculum concepts required by your state or province (Musicplay is aligned to all state and provincial curriculums!). You choose the songs and activities that hold the most appeal for you and your students.
Feel free to substitute freely - Musicplay provides the framework - you get to make the choices.
Recordings
Recordings are included in the teacher’s guides! (Download Audio MP3's)
Musicplay 2 has more than 95 musical selections! Child and adult voices are used. Accompaniments include Orff arrangements, piano accompaniments, and orchestrated accompaniments. Performance songs have both performance tracks and accompaniment tracks - you can use the accompaniments only for your performances. Multicultural songs feature authentic performances - the songs are in original languages and are sung by native singers. Many of the multicultural songs are game songs that appeal to children even though the language and sound may be unfamiliar.
Assessments
Assessment suggestions are given throughout the teacher’s guides.
Checklists of important skills are included if your district requires the use of them.
Reproducibles are included in Musicplay 2-6.
Musicplay supports and enhances science, social studies, and language arts curriculums. In second grade, songs to teach vowels and consonants are included. The Musicplay 2 student books or Digital Resources are a wonderful literacy tool providing many opportunities for shared reading. Students will develop reading skills while they learn music. Poetry is included in Musicplay 2. Science concepts are taught as well - each grade includes songs that teach about the environment.
Materials Included:
- Musicplay Grade 2 Printed Binder / Audio MP3s
- Musicplay Grade 2 Digital Resources
- Listening Resource Kit 2
Song List
| 1. Welcome to Music 2. O Canada 3. My Country, 'Tis of Thee 4. Ridin' That New River Train 5. Engine, Engine Number Nine 6. Hill, Hill 7. Poor Little Bug on the Wall 8. Paddle in My Kayak 9. I Can Sing a High Note 10. Bounce High 11. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 12. Obwisana 13. Bell Horses 14. Tony Chestnut 15. Thanks a Lot! 16. Time to Play 17. I'm the Fastest Turkey 18. Falling Leaves 19. I Am a Fine Musician 20. Icka Backa 21. What's That Creature? 22. Birds and Bats 23. Pass the Witch's Broomstick 24. Witch's Stew 25. Old Mother Witch 26. The Grand Old Duke Of York 27. Starlight 28. Sing for Peace 29. Make a Difference 30. This Way That-a-way 31. Peace Like a River 32. Doggie, Doggie 33. Napoléon 34. Lukey's Boat |
35. On Top of Spaghetti 36. Bluebells 37. Johnny Caught a Flea 38. Tap It Here, Tap It There 39. Pease Porridge Hot 40. O Hanukkah 41. Who's That? 42. Holiday Round 43. Ring, Ring, Ring the Bells 44. Rocks for Christmas 45. Jolly Old St. Nicholas 46. Apples, Peaches, Pears, and Plums 47. Trampin' 48. Japanese New Year Song 49. Mouse, Mousie 50. Boom Boom 51. I Like to Play the Instruments 52. Oliver Twist 53. Haul on the Bowlin' 54. Pass the Stick 55. Love Grows Under 56. Gitsigakomim 57. I Sent a Valentine 58. The More We Get Together 59. I See the Moon 60. Circle Round the Zero 61. Ham and Eggs 62. My Cat Boo 63. I'se the B'y 64. Cut the Cake 65. A Sailor Went to Sea 66. It's Raining, It's Pouring 67. The Lollipop Tree 68. St. Patrick's Day Jig |
69. A Pizza Hut 70. Ain't Gonna Rain No More 71. Rain on the Green Grass 72. Father Abraham 73. Hot Cross Buns 74. Garbage 75. Find the Easter Basket 76. I Can Do the Bunny Hop Too! 77. Recycle 78. Rabbits 79. Hide the Easter Eggs 80. Salish Hand Game 81. Oh, My Aunt Came Back 82. Johnny One Hammer 83. Mom, You're the Best! 84. Juguemos en el bosque 85. Japanese Frog Song 86. Frog in the Middle 87. Row, Row, Row Your Boat 88. Bought Me a Cat 89. Sur le pont d'Avignon 90. The Chinese Fan 91. Kagome 92. Canada in My Pocket 93. Swimming 94. Goin' on a Picnic 95. Here Comes a Bluebird 96. Down Came Johnny 97. Let Us Chase the Squirrel 98. Christopher McCracken 99. Orchestral Instrument Families |
Musicplay Grade 2 Digital Resources
For teachers with Computer/projector
What’s included:
Every musical selection that is in Musicplay 1 is given in:
1. PowerPoint with audio
2. Videos of the song lyrics - just click and the song plays, switching the slides for you.
Each presentation includes:
- Musical notation
- Song lyrics with colorful illustrations - great for shared reading!
- One slide lyrics
- Color-coded Boomwhacker® melodies for simple reading and scale songs
- Slides to teach students how to read music: rhythm, melody, expression
- Kids demo movies of many of the singing games
- Orff arrangements
- Searchable Excel index
- Links to excellent websites
Samples:
Book: Musicplay Grade 2 Lesson Plans
Book: Musicplay Scope and Sequence/Year Plan
Book: Grade 2 Song List
Book: Ontario Grade 2 Correlations
Audio: Bell Horses
Audio: New River Train
Powerpoint as PDF: Johnny One Hammer
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