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Finding High and Low

High and Low on Instruments

Day 106of 180
Week 22of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify high and low sounds on musical instruments

2

Understand that notes on the right side are higher in pitch

3

Develop listening skills for musical pitch differences

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 150:3

“Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the psaltery and harp!”

— Psalm 150:3 (WEB)

Demonstrates the variety of musical sounds God created

📦 Materials Needed

  • Xylophone or bells
  • BibleMouse Music Exploration Worksheet
  • World English Bible
  • Small stuffed animal (optional)
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse music exploration! Let's remember how we learned about God's love through music in our previous lessons.

💭 Review Question: Can you show me how we sang about God's love banner yesterday?
2Teaching (7 min)

Today we'll discover how musical instruments can make different sounds - high and low! Just like God creates amazing variety in music, He creates amazing variety in the world.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • High sounds are like little birds singing
  • Low sounds are like a big bear's growl
  • Instruments have different pitches just like different voices
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What sounds high to you?
  • What sounds low to you?
3Activity: Musical Mountain Adventure (8 min)
exploration

Explore the xylophone, discovering how notes change from left to right

📝 Instructions:
  1. Gently tap each bar from left to right
  2. Listen carefully to how the sound changes
  3. Use your hand to show the sound's direction (low to high)
  4. Pretend you're climbing a musical mountain
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use only 3-4 bars of the xylophone

Challenge: Try playing a simple up and down pattern

4Closing (3 min)

Let's review our musical discovery today!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What makes a sound high?
  • What makes a sound low?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll continue our musical journey by playing up and down scales!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Young children are developing pitch discrimination skills

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be patient and encouraging
  • Let child explore the instrument freely
  • Demonstrate before asking child to try
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might have difficulty distinguishing subtle pitch changes

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to point to higher or lower notes

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Draw a 'musical mountain' showing high and low sounds
  • Sing simple scale using hand movements
  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for additional worksheets

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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